The Global Rundown Water sharing could be a platform…

The mining companies behind the Conga and Pascua-Lama mines are working to gain support from communities who have been worried about water pollution and adequate supplies.

Recycling wastewater is cheaper than desalination and less environmentally damaging than river diversions.

The Cantareira reservoir water system that supplies half of Sao Paulo’s 20 million residents is now only 10 percent full after more than year of record-setting drought.