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A Reader’s Insight: Tapping Into Young Americans to Stop the Water Crisis


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Over the past two decades, the global economy has witnessed extraordinary, previously unimaginable technological advances and scientific feats. Money and complicated business propositions change hands virtually. Meanwhile medical science defies death and disease on a daily basis, as the worldwide web enables instant communication across oceans. Despite these tremendous advancements in life and technology, the greatest issue we face is our depleting water supply.

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Perspective: Water, Energy, Economy, Poverty and Haiti


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The average Haitian has been living the life of a disaster victim even before the earthquake. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Its human development and other indices were about what one would find in some of the poorest sub-Saharan countries. Mismanagement, corruption and just plain venality have forever been human-caused security earthquakes in this sad country.

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New Plan Approved to Protect Chicagoland Water


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A three-year effort to develop a landmark water plan for the greater Chicago region was unanimously approved by political and environmental stakeholders Tuesday.

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Chile Considers Constitutional Reform of Freshwater Rights


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Chilean President Michelle Bachelet’s proposed constitutional reform that recognizes freshwater access as a national security concern, and declares the resource a public good, cleared its first legislative hurdle earlier this month.

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Reforms Could Lead to Huge Water Savings for California, Pacific Institute Says


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Replacing inefficient appliances in homes and upgrading wasteful agricultural equipment could save one million acre feet of water in California, according to a Pacific Institute report released Monday. These reforms could also save the parched state six to eight million acre feet by 2020.

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The Struggle for Indigenous and Freshwater Rights at Copenhagen and Beyond


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For two weeks in Copenhagen last month climate negotiators debated carbon levels, emissions, and balancing the financial burden of saving the planet among developed and developing countries. Still, even as international leaders wrestled with the complex mix of geopolitics, science, economics, and diplomacy, another important ingredient in the climate crisis was barely mentioned: the effect of the warming planet on the Earth’s freshwater.

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Saudi Arabia to Use Solar Energy for Desalination Plants


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Saudi Arabia’s national science agency announced a new national initiative to build solar-powered desalination plants to reduce water and energy costs by 40 percent.

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Haitian Earthquake Provides Lessons for Similarly Vulnerable Countries


As recovery efforts in Haiti focus on supplying clean water to a region in which the water infrastructure was destroyed, a Maltese engineer thinks his earthquake-prone country, which sits just south of Sicily, could face a similar crisis

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Legal Battle Over Asian Carp in the Great Lakes Heats Up


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The White House responds to calls for a Great Lakes summit to protect the lakes and their $7 billion sportfishing industry from the invasive species.
Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court rejection of Michigan’s request to immediately sever the connections between the Illinois River and Lake Michigan continues to reverberate, from the White House to the U.S. Congress and across the border in Ontario.

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China May Relocate 300,000 from Three Gorges Region


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Water pollution and river bank instability pose more serious problems than expected on the reservoir banks.

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