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Water Scarcity and the Global Food Crisis
June 6th, 2008
As reported in an interesting new online magazine, Yale’s Environment 360, there is a firm connection between the world’s current food shortages and both the over consumption of water & its increasing scarcity, As the article notes: “…After decades in the doldrums, food prices have been soaring this year, causing more misery for the world’s […]
Read more »Water: Oil of this Century (2)
June 3rd, 2008
Via The Christian Science Monitor, an interesting report on whether water – as Dow Chemical Chairman Andrew Liveris told the World Economic Forum in February – “is the oil of this century.†As the article notes: “…Cyprus will ferry water from Greece this summer. Australian cities are buying water from that nation’s farmers and building […]
Read more »Peak Water
June 1st, 2008
Via Wired, an alarming look at the concept of peak water, the point at which the renewable supply is forever outstripped by unquenchable demand. As the report notes: “…the scarcity of freshwater is no longer a problem restricted to poor countries. Shortages are reaching crisis proportions in even the most highly developed regions, and they’re […]
Read more »Tribal Water Rights: Another Jurisdiction/Claim to Consider
June 1st, 2008
Via The Press-Enterprise, an interesting look at how Indian tribal claims may add to the complexity of water sharing discussions going forward. As the report notes: “…On the edge of a dirt road, Anthony Madrigal Jr. peers over the same sage-covered, boulder-strewn land that his Cahuilla ancestors have lived on for thousands of years. But […]
Read more »Mexico and Colorado River: Prospects For Cooperation Drying Up
June 1st, 2008
Via The Los Angeles Times, an interesting look at the impact of the Colorado River’s increasingly meager flow into northern Mexico has upon millions who depend on it. As the article notes: “…As U.S. scientists warn of a semi-permanent drought along the taxed river by midcentury, Mexico today offers a glimpse of what dry times […]
Read more »The Great Lakes – Another Aral Sea?
May 23rd, 2008
Reading Toronto recently published a provocative report which contemplated the possibility that the havoc exploitative policies caused on the Aral Sea’s once seemingly robust ecosystem could conceivably emerge in North America if various jurisdictions (i.e. Canada, the U.S., various states & provinces) manage the Great Lakes with selfish, short-terms views in mind. As the article […]
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