Editorial: Oil crisis, meet water crisis

DALLAS, Texas - In an op-ed, The Dallas Morning News’ staff warns that ignoring the looming water crisis in America, will leave Texas dry: Read more

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Water: tapping a strained supply

As the US population continues to rise, a water crisis looms. Overuse, pollution, and infrastructure neglect all pose series risks to the nation’s water supplies. A nation where very few individuals are informed about water issues — or even understand where the water from the tap comes from — may soon face one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century: water resource management. Read more

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The true cost of bottled water

The growing consumption of bottled water raises questions about the product’s economic and environmental costs. Among the most significant concerns are the resources required to produce the plastic bottles and to deliver filled bottles to consumers, including both energy and water. Read more

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Water key to ending poverty and hunger in Africa, UN report says

by C.T. Pope
Circle of Blue

Almost two-thirds of sub-Saharan Africa’s rural poor could benefit from investment in water, a new UN report finds. Read more

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Biofuels: Choice of fuel, food or water?

Nations make tradeoffs to feed ever-increasing energy needs
By C.T. Pope
Circle of Blue

With fuel prices still on the rise, President Bush held a press conference on Tuesday to call for an increase in U.S. biofuel production in order to mitigate the country’s dependence on foreign oil. Read more

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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

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The great resource crisis of the 21st century: Water

UK - The great slow-burning, under-reported resource crisis of the 21st century is water.

Climate change, over-consumption and the criminally inefficient use of this most basic raw material are all to blame. I wrote a book three years ago called When The Rivers Run Dry - because many of the world’s biggest rivers are indeed running dry. Read more

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1 Lightbulb = 3-6,000 Gallons

It takes between 3,000 gallons and 6,000 gallons of water to power a 60-watt incandescent bulb for 12 hours a day over the course of a year.

That statistic was published on Thursday by researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, who have studied how demand for a dwindling natural resource–fresh water–plays into energy. Read more

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Demands for energy, water at critical point

Energy and water are inextricably linked, and claims on each are rising. As Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, a Circle of Blue partner, pointed out at the Global Nexus of Energy and Water panel discussion in Boston last month, water is needed for mining coal, drilling oil, refining gasoline, generating and distributing electricity, disposing waste and cooling power plants.

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source: MiamiHerald.com

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Gas-sipping Electric Cars May Guzzle Water

U.K. - They may not be gas-guzzlers, but electric cars have a raging thirst for water.
A comparison of the volume of coolant water used in the thermoelectric power plants that provide most of our electricity and that used in extracting and refining petroleum suggests that electric vehicles require significantly more water per mile than those powered by gasoline. Read more

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