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Our Water Crisis Will Be More Challenging Than Our Energy Crisis: How Do We Adapt?

Sandra Postel, Post Carbon Institute. September 3, 2010.

Challenges posed by water in the coming decades will rival those posed by declining oil supplies.

How Much Longer Until We Run Out of Enough Drinkable Water?

Sandra Postel, YES! Magazine. June 25, 2010.

Just as the economic crash is forcing Americans to reassess what they value financially, the water crisis requires us to pay attention to how we value and use water.

Meet the Celebrities Who Climbed Kilimanjaro to Awaken the World to a Water Crisis

Jacob Gordon, TreeHugger. March 23, 2010.

Grammy-nominated recording artist Kenna has personal drive behind his mission to increase awareness about the global water crisis.

Portions Of Iraq Are Drying Up Completely

John Laumer, TreeHugger. August 28, 2009.

The human impact of climate change, combined with the demands of a burgeoning regional population may exceed that of insurrection in Iraq.

Western Governors, We Need to Start Making Big Changes to Water Management

Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. June 26, 2009.

We need big changes out west when it comes to water policy. These are the changes I've told governors we need to make.

Why Does Two-Thirds of the World's Population Still Not Have Access to Safe Drinking Water?

Melinda Burns, Miller-McCune.com. May 29, 2009.

The funds needed for water resources are miniscule compared those given to reduce carbon emissions and deal with the global financial crisis.

Retreat of Andean Glaciers Foretells Global Water Woes

Carolyn Kormann, Yale Environment 360. April 11, 2009.

Bovlia will soon be paying a disproportionately high price from global warming: the rapid loss of glaciers and a decline in vital water supplies.

Climate Change Ground Zero: Drought and Fires Devastate Australia

Keith Schneider, Yale Environment 360. April 4, 2009.

Steadily rising temperatures in south Australia and the recent drought may signal a permanent climate shift.

Fixing Our Water Crisis Can't Be Done by the Corporations that Are Exacerbating It

Jeff Conant, AlterNet. April 2, 2009.

If we learned anything from the World Water Forum it should be that the privatization model has failed and a grassroots movement is needed.

Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What We Can Do About It

Robert Glennon, Island Press. March 21, 2009.

Our water crisis should occasion grave concern but not panic. We have solutions available; now we need a national commitment to pursue them.

Peter Gleick: How We Can Avoid a World Without Water

Tara Lohan, The Nation. February 19, 2009.

With droughts from California to China threatening food production, one man has the solution we need to head off a global crisis.

Peter Gleick: How to Save California from Water Crisis

Jared Simpson, Waterblogged.Info AlterNet: PEEK. January 6, 2009.

California has plenty of water, yet crisis looms. Here's what needs to be done.

What Obama's Next Steps Should Be on Health Care, Transportation, Iraq and More

AlterNetNovember 6, 2008.

Sara Robinson, Margy Waller, David Morris, J. Goodrich, Geoff Millard and Maude Barlow on where Obama should go from here.

Importing Food Means Exporting Drought

Tom MacMillan, Comment Is Free. August 22, 2008.

If we don't make changes quickly it will be our plates, not our rates, that bear the brunt of water shortage.

Water Shortage Concerns: City Contemplates Going From Toilet to Tap

Barbara L. Minton, Natural News. May 8, 2008.

Tuscon residents may soon be drinking treated wastewater as part of a growing national trend to offset diminishing freshwater sources.

Selling Tap Water in New York to Help Provide Clean Water in Developing Countries

Brita Belli, E Magazine. May 7, 2008.

An initiative to charge diners $1 for tap water and donate it to UNICEF to provide clean drinking water is taking off.

Latin America: Why There's a Water Crisis in the Most Water-Rich Region

Bart Beeson, North American Congress on Latin America. May 1, 2008.

With the most annual rainfall of any region in the world, the water crisis in Latin America is particularly perplexing.

Vermont Deals a Blow to the Bottled Water Industry

Tom A. Peter, Christian Science Monitor. April 29, 2008.

The state's legislature has passed a bill that limits how much groundwater bottlers and other companies can draw.

Can You Get by on Just 5 Gallons of Water a Day?

Sophie Morris, Independent UK. April 28, 2008.

A British woman attempts for a day what most in the developing world deal with all the time -- living on just over 5 gallons of water.

Our Political Leaders Are to Blame in World Water Crisis

Maude Barlow, The New Press. April 24, 2008.

As Barlow's new book shows, the world does not lack the knowledge about how to build a water-secure future; it lacks the political will.

Asia Teeters Toward Food Crisis from Lack of Water

Daniel Pepper, AlterNet. April 17, 2008.

In countries like India, overpumping of groundwater for agriculture is reaching crisis level.

Women Rise Up to Tackle the Water Crisis

Rhyen Coombs, World Pulse. April 1, 2008.

How community-based women's groups are taking part in the global water movement.

Climate Change's Most Deadly Threat: Drought

Todd Wilkinson, Christian Science Monitor. March 6, 2008.

A new book reveals that the Earth's distant past can predict the crises that may lie in our future.

World's Water Crisis Makes the Big Screen

Tara Lohan, AlterNet AlterNet: Water. March 4, 2008.

Forget the Oscar winners, check out the new documentary "Flow: For Love of Water."

Maude Barlow: The Growing Battle for the Right to Water

Tara Lohan, AlterNet. February 14, 2008.

Maude Barlow's new book about the water crisis is a call to arms to protect a fundamental human right.