Entries by Circle of Blue

South Australia embraces water-saving measures

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SOUTH AUSTRALIA — Since November 2007, SA Water has granted more than $2 million worth of rebates to householders who have bought water-saving appliances. Read more here. source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation News Circle of BlueCircle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises. www.circleofblue.org/about/

World Bank Aid for water supply in Mozambique

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MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE — The Mozambican government and the World Bank on Thursday signed an agreement in Maputo under which the Bank will channel six million US dollars to the government’s Water Supply Investment and Assets Fund (FIPAG) intended to increase access to water supply for low income households in five Mozambican cities (Maputo, Beira, Quelimane, […]

Snowy Winter Helps Lake Superior Levels

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DETROIT, Michigan — A wet and snowy winter has Lake Superior’s water levels up over last year, and the spring melt should bring it even higher, scientists say. All of the Great Lakes remain below their historical averages. But despite a higher-than-average drop in March, Lake Superior averaged a depth of more than 600 feet, […]

China farms, not revellers, suffer drought

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CHIANG MAI – As the Bhumibol dam plans to release more water to meet the needs of Songkran revellers, farmers in Chiang Mai’s Doi Saket district are fighting over water to feed their drought-hit paddy fields. Tanarat Poommakasikorn, deputy director of the dam in Tak, said yesterday an extra five million cubic metres of water […]

Water Diversions May Lead to Strike

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KARNATAKA – The stand-off between the state and Tamil Nadu over the drinking water project at Hogenakkal, a region where River Cauvery enters Tamil Nadu, is the reason for the current bout of heated exchanges. Tempers have been running high in Karnataka over Tamil Nadu’s Rs. 1,334 crore project which would divert drinking water for […]

Saving the world’s water – city by city

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Authorities from nearly 40 cities met last week during World Water Day to draft the declaration, known as the Istanbul Urban Water Consensus. The statement recognizes the likely damaging effects of climate change on urban water resources and calls on governments to properly fund adaptation plans. It encourages authorities to improve water availability through technological […]

Wastewater becomes fountain of growth

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SAN RAFAEL DE LA LAGUNA, ECUADOR — This year’s World Water Day, commemorated on Saturday, 22 March, and the International Year of Sanitation 2008 remind us that clean water is the fountain of life and health. Water is also a source of development, as shown by the villagers of San Rafael de la Laguna, Ecuador. […]

Nestle: free water from Florida to sell at a huge profit

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MADISON COUNTY, FLORIDA — Nestle, the Swiss company that holds about one-third of the bottled water market in the United States, has made a deal with the state of Florida to take hundreds of millions of gallons of water a year from a state park, Madison Blue Springs, at no cost — except for a […]