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World Economic Forum Ranks Water Crises as Top Global Risk
January 15th, 2015
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on a recent WEF ranking of water as the top global risk: Though much of India is water-rich, the country hasn’t invested nearly enough in public water supply, transport, or treatment. Millions of India’s urban residents, including this man in New Delhi, draw their water from hand pumps […]
Read more »The Age Of Hydro-Diplomacy
January 14th, 2015
Via Nature.com, commentary on the potential for shared management of water as a means to achieve regional cooperation and conflict prevention: The world is experiencing a surge of water-related crises. The eastern basin of the Aral Sea dried up completely in August, for the first time in 600 years. California has experienced an unprecedented three-year […]
Read more »Threat To World’s Water Security Greater Than Thought
December 2nd, 2014
Via The Financial Times, a new report on the global water crisis: Crucial supplies of water in China, the US, India and other major economies are dwindling so fast that the threat to the world’s water security is far worse than is commonly understood, a prominent hydrologist has warned. The groundwater stored below the earth’s […]
Read more »Depleting Groundwater
November 17th, 2014
Via CBS News, a transcript of a televised report on disturbing new evidence that our planet’s groundwater is being pumped out much faster than it can be replenished: It’s been said that the wars of the 21st century may well be fought over water. The Earth’s population has more than doubled over the last 50 […]
Read more »Groundwater Crisis Is Driving Global Conflict
November 9th, 2014
Via Nature World News, a look at the linkage between groundwater scarcity and global conflict: With rising drought conditions and spiking populations, the world is becoming a very thirsty place. Now, one NASA researcher is highlighting the concerns of a great many experts, claiming that not only is the world facing a water crisis, but […]
Read more »Value Diluted: Water As A Business Issue
November 6th, 2014
Via The Economist, a brief commentary on how water is becoming a growing business problem: IN 2013 a Chilean court ruled that Barrick of Canada, the world’s largest gold-mining firm, could not go ahead with its Pascua Lama mine until it could guarantee not to pollute downstream water or damage nearby glaciers. The company eventually […]
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