Maria Armoudian, Ankine Aghassian, AlterNet. May 15, 2008. The world renown activist reminds people that corporation-friendly economic schemes got us into this mess in the first place.
Mira Kamdar, OneWorld.net. May 15, 2008. At the heart of the story is pesticide poisoning, water shortages, soil salinity, fertilizer runoff, skyrocketing cancer rates and farmer suicides.
Michael E. Campana, WaterWired AlterNet: Water. May 12, 2008. There's a lot of history and politics behind China's occupation of Tibet, and now you can add water to the list of conflict sources.
Michael E. Campana, WaterWired AlterNet: Water. May 8, 2008. Denying the poor access to adequate water "is to deny them the rights to health and to lead a dignified lifestyle."
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.
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.
Melissa Knopper, E Magazine. May 6, 2008. Environmental concerns are sending people back to their taps and putting bottled water companies on the defensive.
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.
Abigail Brown, Water For The Ages AlterNet: PEEK. May 1, 2008. The number of civilians in Iraq without water has risen from 50 percent to 70 percent during 2003 to 2007.
Christina Larson, Christian Science Monitor. April 30, 2008. Chinese environmental activist Tian Jun found that in order to clean up Chengdu's rivers, she needed to look upstream.
Ernest Waititu, Indypendent. April 29, 2008. In Ethiopia, violence breaks out as water turns to sand and climate change takes hold. It may be a warning to the rest of the world.
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.
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.
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.
Abigail Brown, Water For The Ages AlterNet: Water. April 23, 2008. How one man is traveling over 11,000 miles on motorbike through India to document the water challenges facing the people.
Olivier Hoedeman, Orsan Senalp, Corporate Europe Observatory. April 23, 2008. The water privatization fever is hitting Turkey, just a year before the country will host the World Water Forum.
Amol Rajan, Independent UK. April 23, 2008. Water footprints will tell consumers the amount of precious H2O that has been used in the products they buy.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet AlterNet: Water. April 17, 2008. The company is trying to sell itself as working toward water conservation, while at the same time depleting water sources.
Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor. April 16, 2008. How one activist took on President Putin and oil interests to save 20 percent of thew world's freshwater reserve.
