Julio Godoy, IPS News. June 30, 2008. Paris is the latest city to take action to put water back into public hands, and they may be part of a new trend.
Richard Girard, Polaris Institute. June 26, 2008. The PET plastic bottles used for bottled water can all be traced back the world's biggest oil giants.
Richard Mertens, Christian Science Monitor. June 25, 2008. Climate change has recently cast a new and disturbing uncertainty over flood-management questions.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. June 24, 2008. A new resolution from leading U.S. mayors shows that more cities may be ditching the bottled stuff in favor of tap.
Rick Perlstein, Blog for Our Future. June 23, 2008. The colossal mismanagement of water in Georgia has produced an urban crisis with no clear solution other than a return to smart government.
Riki Ott, Chelsea Green Publishing. June 18, 2008. Author Riki Ott tells the extraordinary tale of the people who took on the world's richest oil companies to protect Prince William Sound.
Sarah Bates, Science Progress. June 17, 2008. The failure to connect land-use and water planning may have far-reaching and increasingly unacceptable consequences.
Georgianne Nienaber, Huffington Post. June 17, 2008. What or who is behind a water management policy in the United States that allowed our infrastructure to crumble?
Max Keiser, Huffington Post. June 16, 2008. These two diminishing resources have a common cause for their disappearance: a broken neo-classic capitalist system.
Alice Gordon, Atlanta Progressive News. June 10, 2008. A group of Native Americans and others have completed a journey to give thanks to the river in water-starved Georgia.
Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360. June 9, 2008. In the discussion of the global food emergency, one underlying factor is barely mentioned: The world is running out of freshwater.
Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch. June 5, 2008. The people of Felton, California learned that they had successfully wrested control of their water from the clutches of a giant corporation.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. June 4, 2008. Author Elizabeth Royte talks about problems with bottled water, the safety of tap, concerns with drugs in the water and whether filters really work.
Mark Clayton, Christian Science Monitor. June 2, 2008. Despite controversy, the first big New England desalination plant is expected to go online in Massachusetts this month.
Patrick Cunningham, Independent UK. May 31, 2008. Thousands of miles of the rainforest may be flooded because of dam likely to cause a dramatic rise in greenhouse gas emissions.
Michael Grunwald, Grist.org. May 30, 2008. A flood control project in the region gave water managers power to move almost every drop of rain that fell south of Orlando.
Mark Clayton, Christian Science Monitor. May 29, 2008. Increasingly it is being asked: Which countries are water rich, which are water poor, and who should manage water resources?
