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States Remedy Polluted Ohio River

When officials found high fecal counts in the Ohio River, they decided to initiate a clean-up effort. Now six states — including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and West Virginia — are participating in the 475-mile makeover. According to the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission the river reached its current state of pollution due […]

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The Walled Grave: Politics of Neglect Caused Zimbabwe’s Cholera Outbreak

Grim consequences of failed water and sanitation infrastructure by Sarah Haughn? Circle of Blue UPDATE: Find the full interview with Professor Timothy Burke here. The vicious cholera epidemic sweeping across Zimbabwe is the result of a systemic breakdown in basic sanitation, social services, and economic stability that began decades before Robert Mugabe came to power, […]

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Un-ease and Dis-ease a Crippling Combination for Democratic Republic of Congo

As emerging conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) displace communities, the nation’s populous is suffering from increasing levels of disease — such as malaria, diarrhea, dehydration and respiratory distress. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cholera cases have grown thrice as common since October, CNN reports. With more frequent violent clashes between […]

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Mapping Thirst: New UN Graphics Predict Changes in Water Supply

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has recently updated a set of informative graphics to reflect fresh water availability worldwide, be it more or less. The project, called Vital Water Graphics, gives a comprehensive picture of the ways in which the amount of quality water available is changing. The Vital Water Graphics dynamically communicates several […]

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Global water business, a growth industry, attracting more investors

Realistic expectations drive long-term gains, experts predict by Keith Schneider Circle of Blue NEW YORK – It didn’t quite land with a thunk!, but it did attract some attention last August when a 16-page investment brochure from Dublin, California dropped into the mailboxes of stock buyers all over the country. “Water stocks,” declared the investor […]

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HSBC dips its toes into the water index market

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 […]

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Photo essay — “Thirsty world: Desperate quest for water”

What Matters, a new anthology by David Elliot Cohen, continues to make waves with its water-focused photojournalism. CNN recently featured a photo essay by Circle of Blue contributing photographer Brent Stirton and the Pacific Institute’s Dr. Peter Gleick The slide show, narrated by Gleick and featuring Stirton’s photography, highlights the global water and sanitation crisis. […]

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Pacific Institute makes water policy recommendations for next president

OAKLAND, California — Clear, integrated, domestic and international water policy at the federal level, is the focus of a new report by the Pacific Institute. Dr. Peter Gleick outlines his suggestions in a three page open letter to the next president of the United States. Covering the gambit from international conflict resolution to United States […]

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Iraq signs $1 billion deal for water-systems reconstruction

BAGHDAD — Growing stability in Iraq is leading the country to invest in and modernize Baghdad’s dilapidated and damaged utility systems, Reuters reports. A troika of leaders — including a yet unnamed Iraqi-French company, the central government and Baghdad’s mayor — recently reached a deal to rebuild the water and sanitation infrastructure of the eastern […]

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Brain drain on drain brains: South Africa suffers dearth of water quality engineers

A new study reports that much of South Africa’s water suffers high levels of toxic cyanobacteria, commonly known as blue-green algea. Yet no one seems to know who can help. According to Dr. Anthony Turton, a senior water researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the nation used to benefit from a […]

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Information flow obstructed: Millions in flooded India lack safe drinking water

PATNA, India – The current irony of eastern India is that while water is pouring from the sky, people are almost dying of thirst. Reuters reports that the Indian government has decided to investigate a possibly negligent response to the crisis, after pleas from victims of the monsoon-stricken areas. At least 3 million people have […]