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Midwestern Cities Sue Chemical Company for Polluting Water Supply

March 11, 2010

A group of Midwestern communities and water districts has filed a federal lawsuit against Swiss corporation Syngenta AG and its American subsidiary

Vancouver Promotes Tap Water During Olympic Games

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February 17, 2010

Metro Vancouver is promoting the use of municipal tap water instead of purchasing bottled water during the Olympic Games. Municipal officials seek to reduce the city’s bottled water consumption by 20 percent at the end of the year as a part of their Tap Water Campaign.

A Reader’s Insight: Tapping Into Young Americans to Stop the Water Crisis

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January 28, 2010

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.

The Struggle for Indigenous and Freshwater Rights at Copenhagen and Beyond

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January 27, 2010

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.

Saudi Arabia to Use Solar Energy for Desalination Plants

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January 26, 2010

New initiative will decrease the country’s reliance on oil for its electrical needs.

Relief Organizations In Haiti Prioritize Water Distribution

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January 20, 2010

Aid groups send purification and desalination systems to prevent dehydration, disease in the devastated country. Relief organizations are rushing to provide clean water to the more than two million inhabitants of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.