The Economics of Water Quality Need Greater Emphasis, UN Experts Say

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Waste water treatment costs and ecosystem services are often not properly accounted for, say UN experts at World Water Day conference.

David Kuria: Sanitation and Toilet Entrepreneur

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In the sub-Saharan region, 80% of recorded illnesses are water-born diseases, and more than two-thirds of these people don’t have access to basic sanitation. While access to safe drinking water is gaining importance in the political arena, it’s still hard to talk about restrooms and toilets, but today I’m speaking with a man who really does know toilets.

Drought in South China is Worst in Decades

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Parts of southern China are being ravaged by a severe three-season drought. Millions of people lack adequate water supplies, and millions of acres of cropland are too dry to plant.
Hydro Resources, a well-drilling contractor, works around the clock to punch new holes in the Ogallala Aquifer in Kansas. The Ogallala, the primary water source in the Great Plains, is declining because billions of gallons are pumped out each year to irrigate corn, soybeans, wheat, and cotton.

EPA Launches National Study of Hydraulic Fracturing

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Is the injection of chemicals and water underground contaminating the environment in pursuit of natural gas?

Supreme Court Takes Second Look at Michigan’s Asian Carp Injunction

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Will they reconsider a motion filed by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox to block Asian carp from the Great Lakes?

Senate Committee to Vote on Clean Drinking Water Bill

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Clean Drinking Water Bill emphasizes the importance of water and sanitation in U.S. foreign aid. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote at its next business meeting on a bill to provide safe drinking water to 100 million people, according to a committee staff member.

Q&A: How General Electric is Tackling the Water Crisis

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Circle of Blue interviews General Electric Water’s Director of marketing Jeff Fulgham.

Peter Gleick: Climate-change Deniers Versus the Scientific Societies of the World — Who Should we Listen to?

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Where should the public, not versed in climate science, look for their information and knowledge about this debate about climate change?
The source of Cuatro Ciénegas’ water deficit is groundwater irrigation from grain farms in Ocampo, about 50 kilometers north (31 miles) of Cuatro Ciénegas, and from alfalfa and dairy production in the south Hundido Valley, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) southwest. Here,  a center pivot sprinkler irrigates Hundido Valley fields.

Coming Era of Water Scarcity Will Prompt Global Industrial Transformation, According to Survey of International Experts

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Population growth, urban development, farm production, and climate change is increasing competition for fresh water and producing shortages so acute that virtually every industry in the world anticipates sweeping systemic transformation over the next decade in their strategic planning, production practices, and business models.

Q&A: SustainAbility Survey Reveals Clean Water Shortages As Most Urgent Issue

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For 15 years SustainAbility and GlobeScan have polled global thought leaders about the planet's greatest sustainability challenges. The collaborating firms also release three "pulse" surveys based on three critical sustainability issues that most concern companies and their shareholders.

Taking the Pulse of Global Freshwater Issues

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Circle of Blue on what’s happening and what will happen in the water world in 2010.

Peter Gleick: The Best Argument Against Global Warming

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Climate deniers have yet to produce an alternative, scientific argument that come close to explaining the evidence around the world that the climate is changing.