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The United States National Intelligence Council has just issued the Global Trends Report, which publishes every five years, reports The Guardian. The report finds that, “owing to an increase in the global population and the consumption patterns of a growing middle class,” the demand for water will grow by 40%, for energy by 50%, and […]
The Supreme Court seemed ready on Tuesday to overturn a lower court’s ruling in a case about stormwater pollution in the Los Angeles area, the Associated Press reports. Environmental groups had prevailed in an appellate court in their attempt to lay responsibility for polluted runoff at the hands of the county flood control district. Carp […]
A 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Japan near the site of the Fukushima disaster, creating a 1-meter (3.2 feet) tsunami, Reuters reported. Neither the quake nor the tsunami caused much damage. In this Guardian blog, George Monbiot questions the United Kingdom’s trial policy of biodiversity offsetting, which allows developers to destroy habitat for […]
Squatter village defies the label of temporary.
Better data is needed too. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue The voluntary transfer of water from farms to cities and industry will be an important tool for ensuring that water can be put to its highest valued use in the U.S. West, but the transactions should happen in a way that does not harm […]
Ahead of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the application of the Clean Water Act to runoff from logging roads, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a new permit regulation that fundamentally changed the nature of the court case, the New York Times reports. The basis for the court case stems from the Oregon logging industry, […]
Australia’s largest urban economy wants to build a parallel water system to deliver non-potable supplies.
China’s deep shale reserves are treacherous to tap and slow to develop.
By J. Carl Ganter and Keith Schneider The northeast region of China, including Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Jilin provinces, is among the world’s most important breadbaskets. Earlier this year, as Circle of Blue reported in this Choke Point: China article, China’s central government announced a five-year, $US 6.3 billion program to rebuild and expand irrigation networks […]
Water utilities prepare for bigger storms and rising seas. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers works to repair a levee breach caused by Hurricane Sandy in Montoloking, New Jersey. Brett Walton Circle of Blue In the nearly $US 80 billion wake of Superstorm Sandy, the second-most expensive […]
The pain, again, is in Spain — and in much of southern Europe. European Environment Agency The projected change in water availability across southern Europe from 1961-1990 baseline to 2071-2100, using the A1B emissions scenario of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This scenario envisions economic growth, a global population peak at mid-century, and energy-efficient […]
Monday marked the first day of talks among the in Doha, Qatar on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), otherwise known as the 18th Conference of the Parties, or COP18, reports the Washington Post. This round of talks marks the last in a series of negotiations over the past five years that […]
