Samsung to produce water-powered mobile phone battery

Samsung announced that it will come up with new mobile phone battery that would be powered by water. Read more

Australian rice woes: high prices, but no water, no crop

AUSTRALIA –Australia’s failed rice crop — the country will export barely one-tenth of its usual average this year — has been blamed for contributing to global shortages and a more than doubling of the global rice price. But Sunrice chief executive Gary Helou says the accusation against Australia is “terribly ill-informed,” adding, “Australia is an extremely small player.” Read more

Water shortage sparks protest

DHAKA, Bangladesh - Hundreds of people staged protests in the Bangladeshi capital on Wednesday against a shortage of drinking water, witnesses said, defying a ban on such demonstrations. Read more

Greenland’s melting ice is turning blue

GENEVA - Arctic ice may be melting faster than most climate change science has concluded, the conservation group WWF said in a report published on Thursday. Read more

Toxic water panics Indians

FARIDKOT - A sudden increase in water-borne diseases over the past two weeks due to highly toxic and polluted drinking water has made residents in Faridkot, Muktsar and Abohar areas panicky as authorities have not been able to improve the situation. Read more

Water rationing on the way in California

CONTRA COSTA, California - The East Bay’s largest water supplier is likely to impose mandatory rationing next month that could include higher water rates, limits on outdoor sprinklers or possibly a ban on car washing, the Contra Costa Times reports. Elsewhere in the East Bay, residents are expected to be asked to conserve water voluntarily. Read more

“Water wars” could be on tap for Great Lakes

TORONTO - Parched U.S. states could start “water wars” in the years ahead and fight for access to Great Lakes resources as they become more desperate to meet growing needs, Canadian and American experts said Wednesday at a water conference. Read more

School board bans bottles, turns to tap

TORONTO - The Waterloo Region board has banned the sale of plastic bottles of water in its schools starting next year, a move that is expected to spur others across the province into action. Read more

As drought eases, water bills rise

ATLANTA - Many residents of the Southeast who sacrificed greener lawns and longer showers to reduce water usage during the region’s historic drought are now seeing the other shoe drop: They’re being hit with sharp rate increases as water utilities scramble to make up revenue lost because of conservation measures. Read more

Nigerian Water - Profits vs People

LAGOS - Since 1999, huge amount of public funds have been spent on provision and management of water. Certainly, more money has been spent on this than funds spent trying to house Nigerians. The result is still no potable water and lack of access to adequate sanitation. Medical experts would confirm that more than half of the deaths recorded in the nation’s health facilities are caused by complications arising from bad water and poor sanitation. Access to safe water supply in the country is very low and even lesser percentage of people has access to adequate sanitation. Read more

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