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California, in the third year of its worst drought ever, faces challenges similar to those of Australia. A panel of water policy experts and Circle of Blue journalists questioned whether the nation’s most populous state has the resolve to enact similar reforms.
Interactive Event on California Drought – Lessons Learned from Australia
Join the Conversation How should California respond to its water challenge? Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:00a – 12:00p PDT 1:00p – 3:00p EDT. Contents Introduction: California Drought Summary: The International Context Links and Resources What is Choke Point: Index Meet the Panelists Questions? How should California respond to its water challenge? Your expertise, creativity and […]
California’s severe drought is forcing the nation’s largest state to reconcile old assumptions about water supply and management with the reality of long-term drying trends, declining groundwater, and polluted drinking water, according to an expert panel of scientists and journalists convened during a Circle of Blue interactive drought briefing conference call on February 13.
A correspondent’s thoughts on food, wildlife, transport, and politics. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, is a beautiful hill station city in Northeast, India. Click image to enlarge. By Keith Schneider Circle of Blue SHILLONG, India — This beautiful and tidy hill station city in Meghalaya, in Northeast […]
James Clapper, director of national intelligence, presented the 2014 assessment of global security threats to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week. For the fourth consecutive report, a section is dedicated to water. “Risks to freshwater supplies – due to shortages, poor quality, floods, and climate change – are growing,” according to the 31-page […]
From climate change to food insecurity, water influences the planet’s most dangerous threats.
PRAGUE — City Square erupted at the start of the 2014 New Year with a deafening and blazing midnight fusilade of rockets and cannon blasts.
One year later, Circle of Blue’s senior editor Keith Schneider returns to India for our second round of reporting on water, food, energy problems in the region.
In late November at the Summit on the Global Agenda convened in Abu Dhabi, the World Economic Forum published the new book, Sustainable Consumption: Stakeholder Perspectives. Included is this essay by J. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue’s managing director.
Mining boom in South Gobi influenced by local and global citizen activism
Few places in the United States better understand the economically essential and ecologically risky accord between energy and water than this southeast Ohio town.
