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‘Eating’ Water: A Rising Threat to a Thirsty Population
August 27th, 2012
Via Global Geopolitics, an interesting look at the use of water to grow food: Paradoxically, the water we “eat” is likely to become one of the growing new dangers to millions of the world’s thirsty, hungering for this finite natural resource.”More than one-fourth of all the water we use worldwide is taken to grow over […]
Read more »Prepare For Water Shocks
August 15th, 2012
Via IRIN News, a report discussing the likelihood of water “shocks”: Is the world ready to face water shocks? For water shocks are certainly coming; water shocks, in fact, are already here. A meeting of ecologists, policymakers and water professionals gathered recently at London’s Chatham House to contemplate the prospect. Asia, they heard, was the […]
Read more »Where Farms Are Sucking The Planet Dry: The World Is Over-Using Underground Water Agriculture
August 9th, 2012
Two articles examining a recent study that shows the impact that agriculture is having upon the world’s water resources. The first, via NPR, comments: Check out some of the world’s most important – and threatened – aquifers. This map is disturbing, once you understand it. It’s a new attempt to visualize an old problem — […]
Read more »Farming In The Desert: A 21st Century Mirage?
August 8th, 2012
Via Arabian Business, a sobering look at water consumption in the United Arab Emirates: The UAE should conserve water by using less of it for agriculture, a senior safety official said on Tuesday, highlighting concerns about the future of the Gulf state’s scarce water resources. The UAE, which has seven percent of the world’s known […]
Read more »The Battle For Water: One Of Will Versus Water
July 29th, 2012
Via Hydro-Logic, commentary on the AlertNet series and a conclusion that the key battle related to water that needs to be won is that of generating a will to action to address water issues: During the last week, the AlertNet news service of the Thompson-Reuters Foundation provided special coverage of global water issues under the […]
Read more »Water Maps Spark Concern About “Liquid Gold Rush”
July 29th, 2012
Via AlertNet, an article on a global initiative to map water availability: As competition for clean water grows, some of the world’s biggest companies have joined forces to create unprecedented maps of the liquid gold that flows beneath our feet. The Aqueduct Alliance, which allows users to create maps by combining hydrological data with geographically […]
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