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Can a Century of Canal Digging, Channel Constructing, Man Made Plumbing Be Undone Once a farmer now a conservationist, Greg Ogle stands among Australia’s giant Red Gum trees northwest of Swan Hill that the epic drought has killed (click image to enlarge). by Keith Schneider Photographs by J. Carl Ganter Circle of Blue Reports Greg […]
Years of drought have left the state government of South Australia feeling a bit too brittle for comfort. In fact, it just tipped its fiscal bucket by tens of millions of dollars to purchase water for next year. The state should be 61 billion gallons wetter for 2009-10, water security minister Karlene Maywald told the […]
BUAN, South Korea — From a scenic dyke in the peninsular nation’s rural north, South Korea seeks to conjure a commercial and residential development seven times larger than Manhattan. While some scoff at the feasibility of such a feat — noting infamous environmental failures like Japan’s Isahaya Bay — the Saemangeum land reclamation project is […]
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 […]
BRISBANE, Australia — Small farmers in Queensland can make more by selling their water than growing crops, reports Adelaide Now. “Water is genuinely becoming liquid gold and an increasing number of farmers are being lured away from the land,” attorney Tracey Moore told the newspaper. “In regions where water trading is possible, there is a […]
Students to develop solutions to global water crisis in first annual “Aspen Design Challenge” AIGA, Circle of Blue and INDEX launch “Designing Water’s Future,” Engaging Cross-Disciplinary Teams of Next-Generation Thinkers Around the World NEW YORK, NY. – August 18, 2008 – AIGA, the professional association for design, today issued an ambitious call to the next […]
The lower lakes of the Murray River in South Australia are slowly drying up, as water use along the Murray-Darling river basin continues to threaten the long-term health of the watershed. Lower lakes residents, hoping for an influx of water from upstream reserves, were told by government officials that, barring substantial rain, the reservoirs would […]
As the public becomes increasingly aware of the oceanic scope of the impending freshwater crisis, policy makers and scientists look for alternatives. Is desalination an answer? From the Los Angeles Times: It’s easy to understand why so many of us, hearing of threats from climate change and shrinking water supplies, turn our gaze west to […]
AUSTRALIA – Australia’s prime minister, Kevin Rudd, says a new agreement on the Murray Darling basin will mean the river is managed as one body for the first time. Read more here. Source : ABC (Australia)
AUSTRALIA – More than 300 angry farmers and their trucks blocked a city thoroughfare to protest the Government’s north-south pipeline, which they say will drive them off the land. The Government plans to send 75 billion liters of water a year from the northern food bowl district through the pipeline to Melbourne in 2010. Read […]
