California Report: In Dry Times, Deep Reservoir of Water Solutions
New report highlights possible solutions to state’s water shortages.
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New report highlights possible solutions to state’s water shortages.
Pressed by growing urban populations, drier and warmer climates and the need to fortify supplies stretched by the increasing worldwide thirst, metropolitan and national governments on five continents are building record numbers of industrial plants to use a nearly alchemic technology to produce drinking water from the sea.
Demand for desalination plants increases worldwide.
As of now, Sacramento has some new rules about water use.
Following up on my last post, on the cost of desalination,
More than 40 years ago, Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez founded in prose the fictional village of Macondo along the shores of a river of clear water on a bed of polished stones, white and big, like “prehistoric eggs.” The South American village flourishes until years of magical rain wash it away. Today, in Sumapaz […]
A vast swath of blue-green algae is making its way through Australia, creeping down Victoria’s Lower Murray Darling River at a pace that alarms authorities. At the end of March, the algae had already covered more than 300 kilometers from Hume Dam to the Torrumbarry Weir. Officials fear it could reach the border of South […]
The United Arab Emirates might be rolling in oil and natural gas, but it could bring grist to its mill from water-scarce Australia. As the 5th World Water Forum and World Water Day wound up earlier this month, stakeholders called for more cooperation among sectors and countries in the face of a growing global water […]
Facing severe water shortages, England now offers its citizens less water than Egypt and might one day grow as thirsty as Australia. A new report by the Environment Agency, a public body for protecting the environment in England and Wales, calls for strict water use controls in Britain. Climate change threatens to dry up much […]