Analysis: Despite a Drying and Flooding Planet, Cancun Climate Negotiators Anticipate Scant Progress
Without water as part of the equation, there can be no long-term solution to climate change.
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Heavy Rainfall Hampers Tea Markets in India and Sri Lanka
Severe weather impacts could compromise tea farming for two of the world’s biggest players in the industry.
Q&A: Upmanu Lall on India’s Nexus of Energy, Food and Water
Upmanu Lall talks specifically of three regions of India where cereals are grown, despite recent droughts.
Landslide Lake Puts Pakistani Villages at Risk of Flooding
Thousands of Pakistani villagers are at risk if a landslide-formed lake breaches its rock dam.
Climate Change Burden-Sharing Must Not Compromise Developing World’s Growth, India’s PM
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that developing countries will not compromise their financial growth for climate change, and that, instead, rich countries need to ensure access to clean technologies.
Irrigation an Irritation as Indians, Nepalis Cope with Monsoon Season
GUWAHATI, India – This year’s monsoon season in northeastern India and Nepal brings intense flooding, submerging at least one hundred villages and displacing thousands. While the rains irrigate at least 60 percent of India’s agricultural land, they also leave in their path a wake of destruction. In the past month, Reuters reports that over 200 […]
Arsenic-laced well water poisons Indian rice supply
INDIA — The bucolic portrayal of verdant, water-soaked rice paddies may be less benign than supposed. A new study reports that well water used to flood the paddies actually contains a high level of toxic inorganic arsenic. According to the New York Times, the study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, suggests that […]
India’s future drying up?
NEW DELHI – With the winter rains predicted to fall, water storage levels in India could dip leading to greater water stress during the lean monsoon period. Combined with the fall in winter rains, the increasing intensity of rain would lead to a higher number of floods during monsoon which too could result in reduced […]
Report: Too Much Water on the Way in India
MUMBAI – Ninety-two years from now, all these landmarks of Mumbai will be underwater. That’s the apocalypse scenario drawn up in a report titled ‘Climate Migrants in South Asia: Estimates and Solutions’ that has been commissioned by Greenpeace, a non-government organization. Prepared by climate expert and professor from the humanities department of IIT Chennai, Sudhir […]
The Stream, July 17, 2024: Indigenous Women in Oaxaca Conserve Water While Farming As Countrywide Shortages Continue
As Mexico continues to suffer from water scarcity and extreme heat, Indigenous women in Oaxaca are combining ancient growing practices with new technologies to conserve the resource.
Federal Water Tap, July 15: $5 Billion Tribal Water Rights Settlement Introduced in Congress
The Rundown Senators introduce bipartisan bill to settle Colorado River and other water rights for Navajo, Hopi, and San Juan Southern Paiute tribes. FEMA finalizes new standards for using federal funds to rebuild in a floodplain. U.S. and Canada agree to principles for updating Columbia River Treaty. U.S. Geological survey publishes reports on nitrogen pollution […]
The Stream, July 10, 2024: Voters in U.K General Election Worry about River Health and Sewage Spills
The poor quality of rivers and streams across the United Kingdom was a major concern for voters in last week’s general election, helping the Liberal Democrat party win 72 Parliamentary seats.
