U.S. Urban Residents Cut Water Usage; Utilities are Forced to Raise Prices
In too many American cities to count, water consumers are dramatically reducing the amount they use only to be hit with higher water rates.
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Freshwater Delivery in the Wake of Natural Disasters
A sample of water technologies invented to store, ship and provide one of the most critical resources for crisis recovery.
World Water Day Panelists Urge New Mindset for Wastewater Treatment
Newly-released UNEP report details challenges, benefits of expanding wastewater treatment coverage.
Taking the Pulse of Global Freshwater Issues
Circle of Blue on what’s happening and what will happen in the water world in 2010.
Divining Destiny: Water Challenges in Mexico’s Tehuacán Valley
SPECIAL APPRECIATION to the Ford Foundation for investing in the power of the human story, well told.
Vancouver Promotes Tap Water During Olympic Games
Metro Vancouver is promoting the use of municipal tap water instead of purchasing bottled water during the Olympic Games. Municipal officials seek to reduce the city’s bottled water consumption by 20 percent at the end of the year as a part of their Tap Water Campaign.
Drought in Australia Connected to Snowfall in Antarctica, Researchers Find
Relationship between Australia’s drought and Antarctica’s increased snowfall offers clues to human contribution to global warming. Scientists have linked a severe, decades-old drought in Australia to increased snowfall in East Antarctica.
Heart of Dryness: Botswana’s Bushmen Fight for Human, Water Rights
The fifth installment of Workman’s book details the Bushmen’s painful legal battle for water access against the Botswana government, which had begun to use “intentional, compulsory thirst” on the indigenous community. Left little choice, the Bushmen pursued court action to make access to water a fundamental human right.
Reforms Could Lead to Huge Water Savings for California, Pacific Institute Says
Replacing inefficient appliances in homes and upgrading wasteful agricultural equipment could save one million acre feet of water in California, according to a Pacific Institute report released Monday. These reforms could also save the parched state six to eight million acre feet by 2020.
Relief Organizations In Haiti Prioritize Water Distribution
Aid groups send purification and desalination systems to prevent dehydration, disease in the devastated country.
Relief organizations are rushing to provide clean water to the more than two million inhabitants of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Africa News Southern Africa Water Wire IPS-hosted African News Feed Asian carp A list of eating instructions The Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries posted a video and instructions on carp consumption. Asian Carp Management An official U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Web site designed to coordinate control and management of Asian carp in the […]
Heart of Dryness: Water, Climate, and Energy
The second installment Climate Change Coping Strategies of excerpts from James G. Workman’s Heart of Dryness
