Chavez Suspends Electricity Rationing in Venezuelan Capital after One Day
Severe drought is squeezing the country’s energy supply.
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Climate Change To Heighten International Tensions Over Freshwater Resources
Growing supply and demand gaps.
Peter Gleick: Water for Haiti, Now
Information on the disaster in Haiti is only slowly coming out, but it is clear that the magnitude and extent of the catastrophe is vast, in a land seemingly cursed by endless environmental destruction.
New Bank Loans Revive Controversial Ilisu Dam Project in Turkey
The Turkish government plans to move forward with the dam despite international opposition.
Perspective: Sudan – Land of Water and Thirst; War and Peace
Circle of Blue introduces the first contributing column from Dr. Paul J. Sullivan, an expert on resource conflict in the Middle East and parts of Africa. In his first piece, Sullivan discusses the water crisis in one of the world’s most spotlighted failing states — Sudan.
NYC Seeks to Ban Gas Drilling Within the City’s Watershed
Fracking could contaminate New York’s unfiltered water supply and require costly filtration, report says.
Epilogue from Steve Solomon’s Water The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
The close of economic journalist Steven Solomon’s book is a reflection on the new meaning of water given today’s scarcity crisis. Solomon connects freshwater’s past and present to paint a future, and potentially very unstable picture of human civilization. By redefining facets of this precious resource, however, he presents the foundation of finding global solutions.
Freshwater Crisis Not Included in Final Copenhagen Accord Despite Calls For Action
The current climate accord negotiated at the United Nations conference in Copenhagen is dangerously inadequate, asserted a team of international environmental organizations. During a talk at the Bella Center, where the climate conference was held, the Global Water Partnership, Global Public Policy Network on Water Management, Stockholm International Water Institute, and the Stakeholder Forum teamed up to warn that stakeholders were about to make a dangerous mistake – not mentioning the freshwater crisis at all in the historic negotiating text.
Towards a Blue Economy: Michigan’s Freshwater Future
Midwest leader travels to Mideast to secure his state’s blue economy.
Natural Gas Drilling: What We Don’t Know
It takes brute force and millions of gallons of chemical-laden watery sand to wrestle natural gas from the earth.
State Oil and Gas Regulators Are Spread Too Thin to Do Their Jobs
A dead zone in the mountain country of West Virginia meant illegal dumping of watery chemicals.
Drilling Wastewater Disposal Options in N.Y. Report Have Problems of Their Own
By Joaquin Sapien and Sabrina Shankman ProPublica A version of this story is being published by the Albany Times-Union. Environmentalists, state regulators and even energy companies agree that the problem most likely to slow natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale in New York is safely disposing of the billions of gallons of contaminated wastewater […]
