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NEW DELHI – The floods India and Nepal have suffered this season need not have wrought such havoc, an editorial in India’s Business Standard declares. Floods, often deemed mistakenly as natural disasters, are the result mostly of human misadventure in the river catchments, and the neglect of water systems. The catastrophe caused by the turbulent […]
PIERRE, South Dakota – A ceremony in Wanblee celebrates the materialization of a pipeline that is to provide Missouri River water to at least 52,000 people — including those who live on the Pine Ridge reservation, the Fremont News reports. Called Mni Wiconi, the federally authorized undertaking began two-decades ago. Mike Watson, project sponsor and […]
Habitat loss, water diversion projects, and modern life threaten unknown primate.
VARANASI, India – While India’s magical state of Jharkhand usually monopolizes headlines regarding radioactive groundwater content, a team of researchers recently made national newspaper The Hindu when they conducted a study that found a high presence of Uranium in Varanasi’s underground supply. Varanasi, a holy city on the banks of Ganges, was first cited to […]
BOSTON – The importance of water in the lives of people worldwide is highlighted in a photo essay by the Boston Globe. Images from China, the United States, India, and other countries around the world show the importance of water to all. Click through to the photo essay. Source : Boston Globe
GANDHINAGAR, India – The unthinkable in this semi-arid state will start at Morbi, a water-starved Saurashtra town, where 34,000 metered connections will start providing round-the-clock drinking water to the entire town in two years. Gandhinagar town, which already has good pipelines, may be even quicker. After the state government has made 24-hour electricity supply possible […]
Global demands for freshwater have nearly doubled since World War II, the Christian Science Monitor reports. China, India, and other parts of Asia, are experiencing unprecedented growth, limited by the availability of fresh, potable, water. Throughout Europe, Mediterranean port cities, like Barcelona and Cyprus, plan to ship in water from their neighbors. Global water needs […]
Christian Science Monitor “China’s water plans are a major problem for the Dalai Lama’s government in exile,” says a report released this month by Circle of Blue, a branch of the Pacific Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. Himalayan water is particularly sensitive because it supplies the rivers that bring water to more than half a […]
Pollution and global warming threaten Asia’s most important freshwater source.
Dr. Geoffrey D. Dabelko is director of the Environmental Change and Security Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Dabelko discusses water, peacemaking and challenges in China and the Tibetan Plateau. Hear the interview here. This is a rush transcript with excerpts provided for convenience; verbatim accuracy is not guaranteed. […]
Nations make tradeoffs to feed ever-increasing energy needs By C.T. Pope Circle of Blue With fuel prices still on the rise, President Bush held a press conference on Tuesday to call for an increase in U.S. biofuel production in order to mitigate the country’s dependence on foreign oil. “[T]he high price of gasoline is going […]
Coke has good business reasons to take sustainability seriously. Its brand is all-important. It depends on clean water, a scarce resource. And the company has been stung by alleged misdeeds. Although no one ever proved a connection, a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Kerala, India, was shut down in 2004 after nearby wells went dry. That […]
