Federal Government Restricts California’s Delta Flow
A policy that restricts water pumping from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
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Obama’s Latest Pick Bodes Well for Water
WASHINGTON — To serve as Interior Secretary, Obama has nominated an attorney and senator with expertise in a resource of urgent importance to the American West. While Senator Ken Salazar, a Democrat from Colorado, is not as liberal as some environmental groups hoped, he does have considerable experience working with water-related issues. Speaking of those […]
Overcoming the sanitation stigma: An interview with author Rose George
In an interview with Circle of Blue, freelance journalist and author Rose George explores the politics of sanitation. She discusses sanitation’s crucial but linguistically fickle role in social dialogue. George elaborates on the history of sanitation both above and below the equator, as well as touching on recent successes and failures. Her new book — […]
Opinion: Blue is the new green
From living roofs to living walls, from greywater to rainwater harvesting, water conservation is getting a technology makeover. In a recent New York Times op-ed, Allison Arieff explains why and how people should pay attention to water use, profiling techniques that go far beyond the “turn-off-the-tap-while-brushing” mantra: Because water is cheap (at least for now) […]
Reading Between the Cracks: Natural Gas Drilling Can Pollute Groundwater
A recent inquiry suggests the brew used during natural gas drilling may be poisoning water nationwide.
Rebooting the Global Agenda: Deep thinkers convene in Dubai to seek solutions to world crises
BBC presenter Nik Gowing moderates the closing session of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Summit in Dubai November 9. Photo by Dana Smillie/WEF DUBAI — It’s no news that our house is on fire. And what room isn’t burning? Financial systems, climate, environment, water, energy, media — they’re all melting. The alarms keep coming […]
Fish to Celebrate Centennial Removal of Dilapidated Dam
After one hundred years of frustrated swimming, finned species of the Salmon River once more might wend their way into the St. Lawrence River and beyond. The Salmon River, located in upstate New York, borders Canada. Its Fort Covington dam, built in 1913, has not functioned since the 1940s — when a nearby plant shut […]
HSBC dips its toes into the water index market
In line with the trend toward alternative energy and global natural resource indices, HSBC has announced the creation of the new water-centric HSBC Optimised Global Water Index. The index will focus on companies that concentrate on water collection, storage, purification, distribution, metering, desalination and sanitation, but isn’t pure play — leaving room for many companies […]
Sugarcane plant, production, to remain as bid to save Everglades is scaled back
MIAMI — After months of speculation and planning on the part of Florida’s Governor Charlie Crist, a scaled back deal was finally reached Monday to help restore Florida’s Everglades. The agreement between U.S. Sugar and the State of Florida would keep the company’s basic operations intact for at least a decade. The proposal, reduced from […]
Georgia’s Citizenry Reacts to Nuclear Power Proposal
Without sufficient nuclear power, dirty and expensive coal might be the only alternative.
Israeli invention extracts water from air
Taking advantage of the air’s humidity, a company in Israel is experimenting with a process that wrings the wind of its moisture. Using absorption, dessication and condensation processess, the company — called Extracting Water from Air — claims the extraction requires little energy and pollutes neither the water nor the air. Read more here. Source: […]
Opinion: Middle East should form Water Union
Perhaps the conflicts in the Middle East might be easier to solve when civilians can meet their everyday water and energy needs, suggests former Israeli foreign minister Ben Ami. Ami believes the answer to unrest in the region might be very similar to the answer post-war Europe embraced: create a union, a Middle East Water […]
