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The West harbors beneath its jagged peaks three times more oil than Saudi Arabia. As oil companies pray for permission to tap, officials worry the Colorado River cannot provide water enough to win the oil earthward. The oil is currently embedded in shale. When the shale heats, out seeps kerogen — a substance that can […]
HONOLULU — After a proliferation of electricity outages, the Hawaiian island of Oahu needs to limit its water usage, say officials at the Board of Water Supply. Oahu depends on electric pumps to keep its reservoirs full. During the outages, residents have been withdrawing the resource and water wagons have delivered emergency stock to hospitals. […]
WASHINGTON — Evaporation might be a cool answer to global warming. That, or it could put the earth in even hotter water. Ron Ace, a Maryland inventor, says he has an idea that could clear up the fog surrounding solutions to climate change by creating more of it. Ace has designed “a colossal refrigeration system […]
When thirsty people plant thirsty crops to fuel thirsty car and trucks, watchdogs of the world’s water begin to worry. Robert Glennon, professor of law and public policy at the University of Arizona, wonders whether President-Elect Barack Obama and his newly nominated Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack might already be overlooking the significant amount of […]
A policy that restricts water pumping from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
WASHINGTON — To serve as Interior Secretary, Obama has nominated an attorney and senator with expertise in a resource of urgent importance to the American West. While Senator Ken Salazar, a Democrat from Colorado, is not as liberal as some environmental groups hoped, he does have considerable experience working with water-related issues. Speaking of those […]
In an interview with Circle of Blue, freelance journalist and author Rose George explores the politics of sanitation. She discusses sanitation’s crucial but linguistically fickle role in social dialogue. George elaborates on the history of sanitation both above and below the equator, as well as touching on recent successes and failures. Her new book — […]
From living roofs to living walls, from greywater to rainwater harvesting, water conservation is getting a technology makeover. In a recent New York Times op-ed, Allison Arieff explains why and how people should pay attention to water use, profiling techniques that go far beyond the “turn-off-the-tap-while-brushing” mantra: Because water is cheap (at least for now) […]
A recent inquiry suggests the brew used during natural gas drilling may be poisoning water nationwide.
BBC presenter Nik Gowing moderates the closing session of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Summit in Dubai November 9. Photo by Dana Smillie/WEF DUBAI — It’s no news that our house is on fire. And what room isn’t burning? Financial systems, climate, environment, water, energy, media — they’re all melting. The alarms keep coming […]
After one hundred years of frustrated swimming, finned species of the Salmon River once more might wend their way into the St. Lawrence River and beyond. The Salmon River, located in upstate New York, borders Canada. Its Fort Covington dam, built in 1913, has not functioned since the 1940s — when a nearby plant shut […]
In line with the trend toward alternative energy and global natural resource indices, HSBC has announced the creation of the new water-centric HSBC Optimised Global Water Index. The index will focus on companies that concentrate on water collection, storage, purification, distribution, metering, desalination and sanitation, but isn’t pure play — leaving room for many companies […]
