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Update: China Completes Tunnel Under Yellow River for South-North Water Transfer Project
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China is on target to begin transferring water from the Yangtze River Basin to Hebei, Shandong, and Tianjin by 2013.
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Water News: What’s Ahead in 2012
News headlines are often dominated by the big, unexpected events…
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Differing Views On North Korea’s Food Crisis
Torrential rains, heavy summer floods, and typhoons have compounded North Korea’s dysfunctional food-distribution system, leaving millions — including many children — in danger of malnutrition, according to some media outlets and humanitarian-aid groups. But others contend that additional analysis is necessary to verify the circumstances.
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Bottling Wastewater Expands Island’s Oasis—Singapore’s NEWater Path to Independence
Singapore is first to bottle and sell wastewater for drinking.
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Ned Breslin: Keep it Flowing — Rethinking Community Water Management
A subtle but important trend in the water sector is only now starting to emerge in developing nations.
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Peter Gleick: Fiji Water — When Environment, Politics, and Economics Collide Over Bottled Water
Fiji Water, one of the world's most well-promoted brands of bottled water, is also one of the most secretive and private.
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Q&A: Mission Plastiki—Catching Wind, Storing Rain: David de Rothschild’s Quest for Pacific Plastic
Following the Plastiki's journey 11,000 miles through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch--a Texas-sized gyre of plastic litter.
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Water Scarcity Constrains Food, Energy Security in Vietnam
As the Southeast Asian country battles with climate change, it looks to use less hydropower.
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Desert’s Stronger Grip Shakes Inner Mongolia
Circle of Blue revisits seas of dying grass and blowing sand in northern China.
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Floods in Myanmar and Bangladesh Displace Thousands, Dozens Dead
Thousands are left homeless along the Naf River border of Bangladesh and Myanmar due to flash floods.
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Singapore Will Cut Water Imports from Malaysia, Pursue Self-Sufficiency
Infrastructure to succeed Malaysia import agreement, expiring in 2011.
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Eco-Explorer David de Rothschild Begins Trans-Pacific Journey on Catamaran of Plastic — the Plastiki
David de Rothschild's Plastiki voyage and vessel are designed to redefine global use, and reuse, of plastic.