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LUANDA, ANGOLA — The project for the supply of drinking water to rural areas “Water for All” will benefit about 80 percent of the country’s population, as from 2012, informed Thursday in Caxito city, northern Bengo province, the minister of Energy and Waters, Botelho de Vasconcelos. Read More here. Source: Angola Press Agency
SALT LAKE CITY — For a few days Grand Canyon National Park’s chief of science and resource management, Martha Hahn, floated down mile after mile of Colorado River, marveling at aquatic habitat and shoreline that looked and acted like the Glen Canyon Dam never existed. Read more here. Source : Deseret Morning News
PAGE, AZ — Four arcs of water unleashed from a dam coursed through the Grand Canyon on Wednesday, March 5, in a flood meant to mimic the natural ones that used to nourish the ecosystem by spreading sediment, the Associated Press reports.More than 300,000 gallons of water per second were released from Lake Powell above the dam […]
They may not be gas-guzzlers, but electric cars have a raging thirst for water.
GAINESVILLE, FL — The weekend announcement that the talks between Georgia, Florida and Alabama over an 18-year impasse on water issues have broken down gives little indication as to what is next in the battle between the states. The negotiators for the three states and the federal government, as well as representatives of Georgia Power […]
SPOKANE, WA — The Western states’ booming population and growing fears about climate change have governments studying construction of new dams to capture more winter rain and spring snowmelt for use in dry summer months. Ironically, consideration of new dams comes even as older ones are being torn down across the country because of environmental […]
Margaret Catley-Carlson is chairperson of Global Water Partnership, a working partnership among formed in 1996 by the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. From the U.N. Global Compact to what you can do, Catley-Carlson talks all things water at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.Margaret Catley-Carlson: […]
Margaret Catley-Carlson is chairperson of Global Water Partnership, a working partnership among formed in 1996 by the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. From the U.N. Global Compact to what you can do, Catley-Carlson talks all things water at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
SB262, the bill that would have given the Office of State Engineer regulatory authority over deep drilling for brackish water, got bottled up as a result of opposition from energy interests, afraid that it might bite them, according to Carlos Cisneros, the Northern New Mexico Democrat who sponsored the bill for the state engineer’s office. […]
World Economic Forum Press Release Davos, Switzerland, 27 January 2008 – The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008 closed today with a call by business, government and civil society leaders for a new brand of collaborative and innovative leadership to address the challenges of globalization, particularly the pressing problems of conflict – especially in […]
Davos, Switzerland (23 January 2008) – (WEF press release) Global crises from escalating demand for fresh water and inadequate supply are as urgent as efforts to tackle climate change – yet are more vexing and complicated, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008 heard today. A panel including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told international business […]
East Umchjin County, near the border with Mongolia, a place renowned for what Chinese scientists call "typical grasslands.
