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Water Crises A Global Threat, Says National Intelligence Director
February 5th, 2014
As reported by Circle of Blue, James Clapper, director of national intelligence, presented the 2014 assessment of global security threats to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week. For the fourth consecutive report, a section is dedicated to water: Risks to freshwater supplies — due to shortages, poor quality, floods, and climate change — […]
Read more »World Economic Forum: Water Is A Top 3 Global Risk
February 1st, 2014
Via GreenBiz, a report on the WEF’s recent ranking of water as a top 3 global risk: Too much, too little, too dirty. For the third consecutive year, reckless use and abuse of water is seen by global authorities as having the potential to seriously disrupt social stability, upend business supply chains, imperil food and […]
Read more »H2O to Go: Global Water Grabbing
January 28th, 2014
Via Ozy, an interesting look at global water grabs: Imagine being told you couldn’t fish in a local stream or swim in your favorite watering hole because an international firm had purchased nearby land. That’s happening to people all over the world, and in some cases it’s a matter of life and death, giving a […]
Read more »Conflict Over Water In Cross Border River Basins
January 23rd, 2014
Via The Water Challenges blog, some thoughts on conflict over water in cross border river basins: Countries of the Nile Basin In January 2005, I organised the first discussion on water at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Avishay Braverman, a leading Israeli politician, and then President of Ben Gurion University of the Negev, was […]
Read more »Offshore Fresh Water Aquifers: Which Law Will Apply?
January 22nd, 2014
Via the International Water Law Project, a commentary on offshore fresh water aquifers: In recent years, increasingly urgent voices have been warning of a global water crisis, as the human species consistently uses more water than is sustainably available. Pictures of parched lands, disappearing lakes and streams, and single-faucet villages have become commonplace as thirsty […]
Read more »Water Stress To Affect 52% Of World’s Population By 2050
January 14th, 2014
Via Environmental Leader, results of a new study on water stress: Some 52 percent of the world’s projected 9.7 billion people will live in water-stressed regions by 2050, MIT researchers say. The researchers used the MIT Integrated Global System Model Water Resource System (IGSM-WRS) to evaluate water resources and needs worldwide. The modeling tool also […]
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