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Global Water Demand By 2050
August 30th, 2012
Via Big Picture Agriculture, an interesting graphic from the OECD: Right now there is a lot in the news about future water shortages because of the World Water Week meeting being held in Stockholm August 26-31, 2012. The OECD graph above shows how and where water needs will increase by 55 percent between 2000 and […]
Read more »â€˜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 […]
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