http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews Reporting the Global Water Crisis Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:24:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As demand for water skyrockets and droughts abound, an article in the recent Scientific American presents a six-point plan to mitigate the world's water woes. Water infrastructure must change for the better, it declares. Author Dr. Peter P. Rogers, senior adviser to the Global Water Partnership and professor of Environmental ... http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/general/tenacity-and-technology-current-freshwater-crisis-has-solutions-scientific-american-article-explains/ KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A concession agreement made this Friday in West Bengal, India grants Haldia Water Management Ltd (HWML) a contract to build a large-scale water treatment plant in the port city of Haldia, reports Reuters. The new HWML plant is expected to pump 113.5 million liters per ... http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/world/south-asia/oil-giant-wins-bids-for-industrial-water-plant-in-india/ SAN ANTONIO - A river of rain that swept into San Antonio, Texas on the winded wings of Hurricane Dolly provided enough precipitation for the Edwards Aquifer Authority to lift mandatory drought restrictions, reports the San Antonio Business Journal. Although the lift gives the public more freedom to use ... http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/world/north-america/hurricane-dolly-diminishes-drought-in-san-antonio/ CAIRO - In the midst of a food crisis, the Middle East and North Africa are beginning to rethink their water needs, the New York Times reports. Even oil-rich nations like Saudi Arabia have realized that gold cannot always buy blue. This year the kingdom plans to phase out ... http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/world/mideast-water-supply-requires-heavy-cash-flow/ An appeals court in California upheld the decision to bar ships passing through the Great Lakes from discharging ballast water on their way to or from the ocean, an article in Democrat and Chronicle announces. New York Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, said the "decision is a huge win in ... http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/general/appellate-court-blasts-ballast-water-dumping-in-great-lakes/ HOUSTON - Coast Guard officials have had to act quickly to close down twenty-nine miles of the Mississippi River near New Orleans due to an oil spill Wednesday morning, Reuters reports. When a fuel barge collided with a chemical tanker, nearly half a million gallons of thick, shiny oil ... http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/general/oil-tanker-spills-420000-gallons-into-mississippi-river/ AUSTRALIA - When water is scarce, Australians might face steep charges for usage rather than traditional restrictions imposed during times of drought. The National Water Commission is also considering locational pricing as an option to regulate water consumption, ABC News reports. "The basic mechanism is that as prices go up, ... http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/world/australia-water-commission-considers-scarcity-pricing/ ENGLAND - Britian's largest water company, Thames Water, split around $2 million in bonuses last year, the Guardian announces. "The company's financial performance had been strong, capital spending had increased and the programme of replacing London's Victorian-era water mains was accelerating," expounded the spokeswoman for Thames Water. Read more here. Source: ... http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/world/tips-from-thames-water-company-making-surplus-in-time-of-resource-deficit/ SACRAMENTO, California - Some Californians have celebrated Governor Schwarzenegger's and Senator Feinstein's proposed bond for water, other have balked at its impracticality. Either way, farm workers from around the state are rallying to demand that, in one way or another, water goes on the ballot this November. Read more here. Source: ... http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/world/north-america/farmers-issue-rally-cry-for-water-in-california/ Often eyed for their development potential, wetlands contain 20 percent of the earth's carbon and nearly 800 billion tons of greenhouse gases, an environment correspondent from Reuters reports. Paulo Teixeira, coordinator of the Pantanal Regional Environment Program in Brazil, called a release of such content "a carbon bomb" that ... http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/world/destroying-wetlands-could-set-off-carbon-bomb/