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OTTAWA, CANADA — A special resolution proposed by Germany and Spain at the UN Human Rights Council was stripped of references that recognized access to water as a human right. Federal officials in Canada said last week that the government wanted to ensure the meeting’s outcome reflected the fact that access to water is not […]
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MUMBAI, INDIA — For World Water Day, Ogilvy & Mather in Mumbai decided to go the educational route and actually teach us how to make urine into drinkable water with an old school-style poster. Read more here. source: Adland, The Commercial Archive Circle of BlueCircle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about […]
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The Atlas of Health: Mapping the Challenges and Causes of Disease, by Diarmuid O’Donovan, from the Earthscan Atlas Series, is a major new graphic profile of global health. The book outlines the causes and incidences of major diseases as well as the economic, social and environmental factors that impact on people’s health worldwide, including water […]
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SALT LAKE CITY – Snowmelt will raise half-empty Lake Powell by 50 feet, opening a notable shortcut for boaters for the first time in five years, the Bureau of Reclamation says. The Castle Rock cut, still a stretch of exposed rock, will let houseboats reach the most popular beaches and Rainbow Bridge National Monument more […]
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — They’ve been praying for rain in the thirsty American South. Will they prey upon the Great Lakes next? Whether diverting Lake Erie or other Great Lakes water to bail out our dried-up fellow states is preposterous or possible is a matter of dramatically different opinions. But when Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue and […]
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SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – A proposal to regulate water levels in the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario is the “best option at this time” to safeguard the environment while protecting commercial and residential interests, members of the International Joint Commission said Friday. The IJC, an independent U.S.-Canadian organization that regulates transboundary waters, said its […]
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LONDON – The number of people in “water poverty” will rise, says the water consumer watchdog for England and Wales. The Consumer Council for Water uses the term for people whose water bills cost more than 3% of their income after tax. It estimates a third of people living in the South West will fit […]
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BLANTYRE, MALAWI – Water cuts that sometimes last up to three days have become a fact of life in Malawi’s commercial hub. And, the parastatal Blantyre Water Board (BWB) — the city’s sole water supplier — has warned that the cuts are likely to persist until 2013 as it replaces dilapidated water pumps with new […]
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ISLAMABAD – Some 25 percent less than normal snowfall last winter would result in reduced water inflow in rivers, an official of the Met Department said on Saturday. He said the water inflow was enough to fill Tarbela Dam but substantial rains were required in catchment area of Mangla Dam during monsoon season, he said. […]
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MUMBAI – Ninety-two years from now, all these landmarks of Mumbai will be underwater. That’s the apocalypse scenario drawn up in a report titled ‘Climate Migrants in South Asia: Estimates and Solutions’ that has been commissioned by Greenpeace, a non-government organization. Prepared by climate expert and professor from the humanities department of IIT Chennai, Sudhir […]
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SHIMLA, INDIA – Faced with water shortage, the Shimla Municipal Corporation has imposed water rationing in the city. Now water would be made available to households every alternate day for an hour, Corporation Mayor Narendra Kataria said on Sunday. He said rationing had been ordered in view of shortage of water in the town. Read […]
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LODRANI VILLAGE (BANASKANTHA, INDIA) – This village is just 10 kms from the Pakistan border in north Gujarat. It is also around 25 kms from Tharad, the town where chief minister Narendra Modi held a function last week in grand style to release Narmada water from Gujarat into Rajasthan. If water was there for the […]
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