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Would giving water a price help to limit its demand or would this invite abuse against what the United Nations has called a basic human right? Circle of Blue spoke with Brian Richter, of The Nature Conservancy, and Frederick Kaufman, a journalism professor and an author, about their opposing viewpoints.
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As the 2012 drought smothers the Great Plains, Kansas water laws — written to steady the economy, ecology, and use — are actually working.
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Ben Braga, the president of the International Committee for the 6th World Water Forum and the vice president of the World Water Council, talks with Circle of Blue about the Forum next week, the Rio+20 Summit in June, and the solutions to the world water crisis.
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Canadian and American advocates join to promote big oversight idea of the “commons.”
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Sharing failures can be just as valuable as sharing successes. Yet, the development sector more often touts its successes as indicators to donors, who, in turn, are content to think short term and tend to not ask the tough questions.
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The world faces a wide range of serious, complex, and long-term water challenges, from shortages to contamination to local and regional disputes over water to long-term climate changes. But there are other challenges that are short-term, emergency situations that could also be addressed by some new thinking and new technology.
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Though China suspended most of its coal-to-liquid fuels refineries in 2008 due to concerns for scarce water resources and high production costs, recent financial gains may lead it to reconsider its policy.
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2,600 global experts. 100 sessions. Seven days. One issue: water.
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The energy target will be the highlight of a document to come later this year, as well as a cornerstone of China’s efforts to curb soaring greenhouse gas emissions, which currently stand at a quarter of the global total. Cutting coal consumption will inevitably also cut water use, as coal is China’s largest industrial user of water.
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TaKaDu uses algorithms to save water, energy, and money for utility companies around the globe.
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On Australia’s western coast, the city of Perth is in critical danger of depleting the water reserves held by its dams. In response, the government is pumping treated wastewater into the Gnangara Mound Aquifer.
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The cords of energy demand and water supply are tightening around the world’s two largest economies.
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How China’s capital got in over its head, and what the city is doing to get its water crisis under control.
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Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum present at 17 events in 4 cities over 16 days.
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To feed water-hungry mining industries, similar plans are in the works to supply drought-ridden regions of Australia and China.
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Set aside warm and fuzzy emotion, and use cold logic to revalue our matrix of life.
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Will momentum for runaway development be too powerful to restrain?
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Clearly wary about the consequences of its rapid economic development on the environment, China has set a path over the next five years to reduce consumption of the two most important resources that power its economy— coal and water. The country plans to rein in water use and introduces new energy intensity reduction targets in pursuit of more sustainable economic growth, according to the draft proposal of the 12th Five-Year Plan, the master economic blueprint that will chart China’s development through 2015.
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Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
This month, Ned Breslin promos a creative video that explains his organization’s innovative model for the WASH sector.