April, 2009
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The European Union may soon boast a long-awaited common water policy, but experts worry about the flexibility of the Water Framework Directive – the EU’s main document of water legislation.

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By Abrahm Lustgarten
ProPublica

Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well was a time bomb.

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Farmers south of California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta can expect to receive about 10 percent of their federally allocated water this spring

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While the world’s population is booming, much of the water that nurtures it is depleting.

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Once described as the place of earthly paradise and source of life, the “Garden of Eden” marshes in southern Iraq threaten to become a cracked relic of a dying nature.

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When in 1968 Garrett Hardin published in the Science journal his “Tragedy of the Commons” – the dilemma in which individuals self-interestedly exploit and destroy shared resources – Africa’s Sahel region had already endured a major heat stroke in the drought of 1914.

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Asia faces unprecedented water challenges, experts say, but solutions are within reach.

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More than 40 years ago, Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez founded in prose the fictional village of Macondo along the shores of a river of clear water

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Tempers flare across Florida as dry conditions persist — perfect weather for the state’s most pernicious parasite: worry.

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