As part of its 10-year anniversary, NASA’s Earth Observatory has compiled a gallery of images showing annual changes in the Earth’s land, water and atmosphere in places such as Central Asia, Australia, Iraq and the Amazon.
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Many joint economic development projects have been completed, but an agreement on cooperative management of the river basin has not been signed.
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Corporate corruption has led to dire consequences as diverse as water shortages, exploitative work conditions and unsafe medicines, according to a just-released report by Transparency International (TI), a global non-profit aimed at exposing and preventing corruption.
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Satellites are increasingly being tasked with keeping an eye on the planet’s fresh water supplies, giving scientists and governments new tools to track how water is used, who is using it, and how to better manage the fragile resource. Some of the results are alarming.
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While a prolonged dry spell continues to plague Kenya, wildlife experts worry that the country’s 23,000 elephants might be in danger.
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A river surge threatens to pour cold water over the already tense relations between North and South Korea.
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Zimbabwe and international organizations fear another cholera outbreak might spread in the African country after 12 new cases of the waterborne disease were registered in a rural district last week
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A new report shows that half of Germany’s water consumption comes from virtual water.
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Last week, the water ministers of the nine Nile River Basin countries postponed the signing of a new water-sharing treaty that has already flamed up diplomatic tensions between upstream and downstream nations in the region.
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Who “owns” what water? Or, if water belongs to the public, who has the right to use it?
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Torrential rains are causing deaths and wreaking havoc in several regions of China.
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Among the losers of the great twentieth century urbanization were the rivers and streams in cities around the world, soon to be sharing their space with millions of new people.
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Turkmen leaders are determined to revive life in the country’s barren sands with a grandiose water project.
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With a dry season already bringing Kenya’s water reservoirs to the brink, the severely limited water supplies of Nairobi are now also being illegally diverted on their way to the taps of millions.
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A migrating rain band near the equator is en route to profoundly change the weather as it heads north away from the tropics and subtropics.
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In the remote picturesque Southern Highlands of Australia, a small town leads by water example.
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Turkey’s government announced Wednesday its plans to continue the construction of the controversial Ilisu hydroelectric dam in the underdeveloped southeastern Anatolia.
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After four months of exploration, engineers in Yemen have found an important new source of high-quality water.
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Posted on Tuesday, August 18, 2009
I’m spending the week at the Stockholm Water Symposium, an international meeting involving more than 2,000 people from over 130 countries.