California Drought: Snowpack Inspires Consumers, Worries Water Experts

One week after Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state-wide drought emergency for California, rangers reported Sierra snowpack levels at 80 percent of normal. Read more

The World’s Water: Hard Facts Point Toward the Soft Path

Experts say water crises can be averted with better management, changes in attitudes
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Overcoming the sanitation stigma: An interview with author Rose George

In an interview with Circle of Blue, freelance journalist and author Rose George explores the politics of sanitation. Read more

Rose George’s World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

What we should do about the dirty world of a dirty word Read more

Photo essay — “Thirsty world: Desperate quest for water”

What Matters, a new anthology by David Elliot Cohen, continues to make waves with its water-focused photojournalism. CNN recently featured a photo essay by Circle of Blue contributing photographer Brent Stirton and the Pacific Institute’s Dr. Peter Gleick Read more

Signifying thirst: New anthology explores why water matters

Social theorists believe that meaning exists in relation, in the exchange of words and images between people. David Elliot Cohen’s new anthology, What Matters, takes this theory to heart Read more

Bottlemania: exploring the culture of bottled water

In a follow-up to her popular dive into America’s landfills, Garbage Land, enviromental author Elizabeth Royte explores America’s obsession with bottled water. Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It , examines the rise of Poland Springs and other major bottled water companies in America. Read more

Sachs: Water crisis will continue to grow

Environmentalists have long warned about the crisis in nonrenewable resources, such as oil. Water, of course, is the ultimate renewable resource—it falls from the sky—and therefore has been of less concern.

But where and when rain falls, and what happens to it after it hits the ground, are crucial in determining the health and prosperity of human societies, says Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute Read more

“We all go ‘Lord of the Flies’ in a week”

In an interview on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan, author of The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilization, predicts an alarming number of huge droughts worldwide. Read more

New book outlines environmental factors affecting world health

The Atlas of Health: Mapping the Challenges and Causes of Disease, by Diarmuid O’Donovan, from the Earthscan Atlas Series, is a major new graphic profile of global health. The book outlines the causes and incidences of major diseases as well as the economic, social and environmental factors that impact on people’s health worldwide, including water and sanitation.

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source: earthscan

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