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BEIJING – Chinese laborers are busy building a canal to transport water to Beijing as part of the national effort to prepare for the Olympic Games, the Toronto Star reports. The central government wants Beijing green and gleaming come August, even if it means others may have to go without. A government slogan painted on […]
MELBOURNE – HIGH levels of lead, zinc, cadmium and other heavy metals have been found in rainwater tanks across Melbourne, research shows. One-third of tanks assessed in the study had lead levels above Australian Drinking Water Guidelines, including one tank with lead 35 times above recommended safe levels of 0.01mg/L. Read More here. Source : […]
VIENNA – In Afghanistan, home to some 3,500 of the world’s glaciers, the effects of global warming are already being felt in the Hindu Kush said U.S. Geological Survey researcher Bruce Molnia. In some valleys snow has completely disappeared during months when it usually blankets the mountains and many basins have drained, Molnia said. Read […]
BEIJING – A drought in China’s northeast Liaoning Province has left nearly 700,000 people without drinking water. Rainfall in the first three months of 2008 tumbled to one-fifth levels last year. The area is a top grain producer, and maize and rice farming is due to begin next week, but from January to the end […]
The World Bank has a clear warning for Governments in the Middle East and North Africa: invest now to avoid severe water shortages in the future. The amount of water available per person in the arid region will halve by 2050, a report from the bank estimates. Read More here. Source : BBC
Alaskan villagers without running water have high rates of lung and skin infections, according to a study released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Remote Alaska includes about 170 Eskimo villages, mostly along coasts and rivers and reachable only by boat, snowmobile or airplane. Although most have electricity and heat, many […]
UGANDA – The residents of Nakyenyi Village in Lwengo Sub-County Masaka District finally appear to have found a solution to their age-long problem of lack of clean, safe water. It has always been a general problem in this region locally known as Kajjumba. A local development association has joined with a UK-based organization to build […]
UGANDA – According to engineer Sotti Bomukama, the Director at the Directorate of Water Development in the Ministry of Water and Environment, water samples from nine spring wells in Kampala were tested and out of those, only two had water with acceptable coliform (feces) levels, which means that most water that people use is contaminated. […]
In an interview on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan, author of The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilization, predicts an alarming number of huge droughts worldwide. Stewart’s own prediction of what civilization’s reaction to such a situation would be: “Without water, we all go Lord […]
NEW YORK – The Environmental Protection Agency says utilities will need to invest more than $277 billion over the next two decades on repairs and improvements to drinking water systems. Water industry engineers put the figure drastically higher, at about $480 billion. Water utilities, largely managed by city governments, have never faced improvements of this […]
FORT COLLINS, COLO. — When it starts at 10,000 feet and slices through the mountains in the canyon that bears its name, the Cache la Poudre River is a shock of water in this dry land. But by the time it winds its way out to this laid-back college city of 120,000 people, most of […]
The Lohasian features a Reuters video on the continuing criticism of China’s environmental record, which has been under increased scrutiny with the upcoming Beijing Olympics. The latest story making international news is Beijing’s siphoning off water at the expense of a neigboring province to ensure that the Olympics will be green and tourists will be […]
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