On AlterNet: water shortage
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "water shortage"
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.
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.
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?
Elizabeth Nash, Independent UK. May 28, 2008.
Barcelona is in the grip of a water crisis on a scale never seen before in modern-day Europe and now has to import water from France.
Prabhakar Deshpande, India Water Portal. May 27, 2008.
A fictional look at how humanity copes when things are coming down to the last drops of water.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Daniel Pepper, AlterNet. April 17, 2008.
In countries like India, overpumping of groundwater for agriculture is reaching crisis level.
David Gutierrez, Natural News. April 15, 2008.
Available freshwater supplies are dwindling across the country due to rising temperatures, droughts, increasing sprawl and population.
Jennifer Greene, World Pulse. April 11, 2008.
We need to shift our understanding of water as a commodity to an appreciation for water as a human and environmental right.
Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor. April 10, 2008.
Rivers fed by melting glaciers across Latin America may soon dry up, forcing changes on the people who depend upon them.
Shiney Varghese, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. April 8, 2008.
Public water systems are failing, several states are setting severe water use restrictions, and key water sources are drying up.
Vijaysree Venkatraman, Christian Science Monitor. April 7, 2008.
Residents have devised ways to capture and reuse rainwater to help solve the shortage.
John Gray, Comment Is Free. April 7, 2008.
New superpowers are competing for diminishing resources. The outcome could be deadly.
Brad Knickerbocker, Christian Science Monitor. April 2, 2008.
It's becoming clear now that climate change may be altering the way people and governments think about water.
Saul Garlick, Policy Innovations. March 31, 2008.
Local populations can offer help in bringing this resource to their communities if given the right tools and opportunities.
Rob Sharp, The Independent UK. March 28, 2008.
The effect of pollution and climate change on freshwater resources are posing a deadly threat.
Stan Cox, AlterNet. March 22, 2008.
Agribusiness and politicians are sucking our country dry with mandates for biofuels.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. March 22, 2008.
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