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Realistic expectations drive long-term gains, experts predict by Keith Schneider Circle of Blue NEW YORK – It didn’t quite land with a thunk!, but it did attract some attention last August when a 16-page investment brochure from Dublin, California dropped into the mailboxes of stock buyers all over the country. “Water stocks,” declared the investor […]
BRISBANE, Australia — Small farmers in Queensland can make more by selling their water than growing crops, reports Adelaide Now. “Water is genuinely becoming liquid gold and an increasing number of farmers are being lured away from the land,” attorney Tracey Moore told the newspaper. “In regions where water trading is possible, there is a […]
Students to develop solutions to global water crisis in first annual “Aspen Design Challenge” AIGA, Circle of Blue and INDEX launch “Designing Water’s Future,” Engaging Cross-Disciplinary Teams of Next-Generation Thinkers Around the World NEW YORK, NY. – August 18, 2008 – AIGA, the professional association for design, today issued an ambitious call to the next […]
The lower lakes of the Murray River in South Australia are slowly drying up, as water use along the Murray-Darling river basin continues to threaten the long-term health of the watershed. Lower lakes residents, hoping for an influx of water from upstream reserves, were told by government officials that, barring substantial rain, the reservoirs would […]
As the public becomes increasingly aware of the oceanic scope of the impending freshwater crisis, policy makers and scientists look for alternatives. Is desalination an answer? From the Los Angeles Times: It’s easy to understand why so many of us, hearing of threats from climate change and shrinking water supplies, turn our gaze west to […]
AUSTRALIA – Australia’s prime minister, Kevin Rudd, says a new agreement on the Murray Darling basin will mean the river is managed as one body for the first time. Read more here. Source : ABC (Australia)
AUSTRALIA – More than 300 angry farmers and their trucks blocked a city thoroughfare to protest the Government’s north-south pipeline, which they say will drive them off the land. The Government plans to send 75 billion liters of water a year from the northern food bowl district through the pipeline to Melbourne in 2010. Read […]
QUEENSLAND – A remote northwest Queensland community has made an urgent plea for reliable power and water. Urandangi is 260km southwest of Mount Isa and has a population of about 60, which fluctuates with the movement of people across the nearby Northern Territory border. The town’s average summer maximum temperature is 38C but there is […]
NEW SOUTH WALES – New figures released yesterday show more than 48 per cent of the state is drought-declared, up from 43 per cent last month. Another 24 per cent of the state is marginal. Opposition spokeswoman Pru Goward says drought subsidies and water restrictions are not long-term solutions. Read more here. Source: ABC News […]
Freshwater is the ultimate renewable resource, but humanity is extracting and polluting it faster than it can be replenished. Rampant economic growth — more homes, more businesses, more water-intensive products and processes, a rising standard of living — has simply outstripped the ready supply, especially in historically dry regions. Compounding the problem, the hydrologic cycle […]
Environmentalists have long warned about the crisis in nonrenewable resources, such as oil. Water, of course, is the ultimate renewable resource—it falls from the sky—and therefore has been of less concern. But where and when rain falls, and what happens to it after it hits the ground, are crucial in determining the health and prosperity […]
Freshwater is the ultimate renewable resource, but humanity is extracting and polluting it faster than it can be replenished. Rampant economic growth — more homes, more businesses, more water-intensive products and processes, a rising standard of living — has simply outstripped the ready supply, especially in historically dry regions. Compounding the problem, the hydrologic cycle […]
