2010 Stockholm Water Prize Awarded to American Water and Public Health Expert
Stockholm Water Prize Laureate is American Rita Colwell, for her research into preventing waterborne infectious diseases.
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Zafar Adeel: A Conversation With the New Chair of UN-Water
Circle of Blue reporter Brett Walton spoke with Zafar Adeel, the new chair of UN-Water.
World Water Day Panelists Urge New Mindset for Wastewater Treatment
Newly-released UNEP report details challenges, benefits of expanding wastewater treatment coverage.
Peter Gleick: World Water Day 2010 — A trip through one of the worst slums in the world
Like urban slums throughout the developing world, there is almost a complete lack of piped safe water and no formal sanitation. Raw sewage and garbage flow through the streets and drainage ditches.
The Economics of Water Quality Need Greater Emphasis, UN Experts Say
Waste water treatment costs and ecosystem services are often not properly accounted for, say UN experts at World Water Day conference.
Senate Committee to Vote on Clean Drinking Water Bill
Clean Drinking Water Bill emphasizes the importance of water and sanitation in U.S. foreign aid. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote at its next business meeting on a bill to provide safe drinking water to 100 million people, according to a committee staff member.
Taking the Pulse of Global Freshwater Issues
Circle of Blue on what’s happening and what will happen in the water world in 2010.
Heart of Dryness: Botswana’s Bushmen Fight for Human, Water Rights
The fifth installment of Workman’s book details the Bushmen’s painful legal battle for water access against the Botswana government, which had begun to use “intentional, compulsory thirst” on the indigenous community. Left little choice, the Bushmen pursued court action to make access to water a fundamental human right.
A Reader’s Insight: Tapping Into Young Americans to Stop the Water Crisis
Over the past two decades, the global economy has witnessed extraordinary, previously unimaginable technological advances and scientific feats. Money and complicated business propositions change hands virtually. Meanwhile medical science defies death and disease on a daily basis, as the worldwide web enables instant communication across oceans. Despite these tremendous advancements in life and technology, the greatest issue we face is our depleting water supply.
Perspective: Water, Energy, Economy, Poverty, and Haiti
The average Haitian has been living the life of a disaster victim even before the earthquake. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Its human development and other indices were about what one would find in some of the poorest sub-Saharan countries. Mismanagement, corruption and just plain venality have forever been human-caused security earthquakes in this sad country.
Chile Considers Constitutional Reform of Freshwater Rights
New legislation could extend government control over private freshwater resources.
The Struggle for Indigenous and Freshwater Rights at Copenhagen and Beyond
For two weeks in Copenhagen last month climate negotiators debated carbon levels, emissions, and balancing the financial burden of saving the planet among developed and developing countries. Still, even as international leaders wrestled with the complex mix of geopolitics, science, economics, and diplomacy, another important ingredient in the climate crisis was barely mentioned: the effect of the warming planet on the Earth’s freshwater.
