On AlterNet: water scarcity
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "water scarcity"
Agence France PresseJune 3, 2009.
Climate change threatens to reduce the availability of scarce water resources, increase food insecurity and hinder economic growth.
Barbara Fraser, Daily Climate. May 20, 2009.
In a dry land where almost everyone has their eye on their uphill neighbor's water, there is already conflict in the Andes.
Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer. May 19, 2009.
Groundwater is threatened by drought, overpumping and the loss of natural recharge. Too bad the state's laissez-faire water laws won't help.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. May 8, 2009.
Like much of the West, the state has serious water issues, but Mother Nature is only partly to blame.
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.
Laurie David, Allen Hershkowitz, March 11, 2009.
Each flush of a urinal wastes more than a gallon of water, millions of times each day. It's time to go waterless.
Randall Amster, Huffington Post. March 10, 2009.
When it comes to protecting water, we should look to numerous examples around the world of communities who still manage resources collectively.
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.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. February 19, 2009.
As the global economy melts down, so is the planet, with droughts threatening food production and industry across the world.
Christina Larson, Environment: Yale Magazine. February 17, 2009.
Not only are cities impacted by their regional climate, they also shape it. And they way we build cities may determine how much rain we get.
Joseph Romm, Climate Progress. February 11, 2009.
Eight years of disinformation and muzzling U.S. climate scientists has left the public largely unaware of the catastrophes ahead.
Margaret Clune Giblin, Center for Progressive Reform. February 11, 2009.
Just as the economic evidence shows that we're in a recession, the scientific evidence shows that climate change will affect our natural resources.
Sarah Newman, Huffington Post. February 5, 2009.
It's time we learn from what's happening in Australia. Here's how we can do that.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet AlterNet: Water. February 2, 2009.
From California to the Himalayas, things are looking bad.
Doug Obegi, Huffington Post. January 30, 2009.
We can follow the old course toward drought, failed crops and fisheries or commit to a new, smart-water solution for the 21st century.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. January 23, 2009.
Filmmaker Jim Thebaut talks about the precarious future of the Southwest and the call for a national water plan.
Christina Larson, Christian Science Monitor. January 22, 2009.
Less snow in the mountains means less water and less food. It also means more of the same for other Asian nations downstream.
Frank R. Rijsberman, Boston Review. January 21, 2009.
So, is the planet drying up? Not exactly, but a growing number of people are sharing a fixed amount of water that is badly managed and polluted.
National Radio ProjectJanuary 15, 2009.
Here's a look at three communities facing water shortages along with the pressure to grow and what they're doing to find solutions.
Jared Simpson, Waterblogged.Info AlterNet: PEEK. January 6, 2009.
California has plenty of water, yet crisis looms. Here's what needs to be done.
Jo-Shing Yang, AlterNet. November 11, 2008.
Green lawns, swimming pools, and corporate farms in the desert Southwest are taking their toll on our neighbors to the south.
Peter N. Spotts, Christian Science Monitor. November 5, 2008.
More water will be needed to refine oil, produce biofuels, or cool power plants that will be needed to meet the demand for more electric vehicles.
Mark Winne, Beacon Broadside. October 29, 2008.
How one unlikely state became an industrial dairy magnet and the environmental and social repercussions that resulted.
Kari Lydersen, Earth Island Journal. October 23, 2008.
From the mining of raw materials to energy production to the manufacturing process itself, industry guzzles tons of water.
AlterNetOctober 17, 2008.
See how Obama and McCain compare on eight water issues from privatization to pollution.
