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Water Tops Climate Change as Global Priority
International Circle of Blue | GlobeScan survey finds fresh water pollution, scarcity drive public concern
A comprehensive Circle of Blue | GlobeScan international public opinion survey on attitudes about fresh water sustainability, management and conservation finds that people around the world view water issues as the planet’s top environmental problem, greater than air pollution, depletion of natural resources, loss of habitat and even climate change.
The poll surveyed 1,000 people in each of 15 countries, and probed 500 in each of the following countries on specific questions: Canada, China, India, Mexico, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
In response to the survey data and to gauge the reality of the opinion, Circle of Blue commissioned some of the world’s best photojournalists from Contact Press Images and Getty Images to report in pictures and words various facets of the conclusions in seven countries. The independent survey was underwritten by a grant from the Molson Coors Brewing Company.
Read the Circle of Blue | GlobeScan Survey Topline.
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Download the complete GlobeScan/Circle of Blue Report [pdf].
Production Credits
The independent research of WaterViews is produced with a major grant from the Molson Coors Brewing Company.
Molson Coors
Bart Alexander
Nicola Helfert
Dan Lewis
Renette Rice
Peter Swinburn
Colin Wheeler
Managing Director
J. Carl Ganter
Senior Editor
Keith Schneider
Interactive Editor
Eric Daigh
Assignment editors
Aaron Jaffe
Nadya Ivanova
Writers
Connor Boals
Nadya Ivanova
Aaron Jaffe
Alex Lane
Aubrey Parker
C.T. Pope
Data
Aubrey Parker
Jordan Bates
Video
Aaron Jaffe
Eric Daigh
Creative and operations
Eileen Ganter
Web post-production
Eric Daigh
C.T. Pope
Nadya Ivanova
Director of Photography
Karen Mullarkey
Graphics
Hannah Nester
Photographers
Brent Stirton—http://www.brentstirton.com
James Hill —
http://www.mjrhill.com
Janet Jarman —http://www.janetjarman.com
Greg Girard —
http://www.greggirard.com
Anita Khemka —
http://www.photoink.net
Sam Faulkner —http://www.samfaulkner.co.uk
Edward Burtynsky —http://www.edwardburtynsky.com
Marcus Schubert, assistant
Field Production – United Kingdom
Caroline Cortizo
Contact Press Images
Jeffrey Smith
Robert Pledge
Getty Images
Kerry McCarthy
Peggy Willette
GlobeScan
Chris Coulter
Rob Kerr
Gwen Cottle
Oliver Martin
Google
Alon Halevy
Rebecca Shapley
Qlikview
Måns Hultman
Anthony Deighton
Chuck Bannon
Shima Nakazawa
Pacific Institute
Michael Cohen
Pat Brenner
Peter Gleick
Courtney Smith
Nancy Ross
Heather Cooley
Jason Morrison
Peter Shulte
Juliet Christian-Smith