Water In The News and Other Resources

Recommended Sources: Reservoirs 
            

Blogs: Fountains of Info

Water in the News: On Tap

Hydrating Phoenix: Quenching a city in the desert
How Phoenix and its 3.5 million people defied the odds, running on all cylinders without running dry.
Aug 5, '09, Mother Nature Network | Read>>

Video: John Stewart on the Water Crisis
Inteveiw with Robert Glennon, author of 'Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What to Do About It'.
July 16, '09, The Daily Show | Watch>>

H2-WHOA! Australian town bans bottled water
Residents take drastic step hoping to protect the earth and their wallets.
July 9, '09, MSNBC | Read>>

Diminishing Water Resources Threaten Peace
Scarcity fosters conflicts in Africa.
May 26, '09, The Washington Times | Read>>

A Crisis Beyond Comprehension …
Festering for years, sadly, the world’s water crisis is now getting worse by the day. And the global financial and credit crisis is merely one reason why.
March 5, '09, Money and Markets | Read>>

Nobody Knows How Dry We Are
It turns out that you don't want to be a former city dweller in rural parts of southernmost Australia, a stalk of wheat in China or Iraq, a soybean in Argentina, an almond or grape in northern California, a cow in Texas, or almost anything in parts of east Africa right now. Let me explain...
Feb. 17, '09, TomDispatch / The Nation Institute | Read>>

Drilling in the dust changes lives in south Sudan
The dry and dusty southern Sudanese village of Mirindanyi has been celebrating their water pump. Before, "it took two hours to the river to collect the water, then two hours back," said Floris Fazir, pausing to heave a 20-litre container on her head...
Feb. 14, '09, Yahoo News | Read>>

Water - another global 'crisis'?
Water weighs in as the strongest driver of the Human Development Index and the UNDP report says the scarcity at the heart of the global water crisis is rooted in power, poverty and inequality...
Feb. 2, '09, BBC | Read>>

The pending scramble for water
Finding the water for agriculture is becoming a profound issue and countries start looking abroad for land for agriculture?
Feb. 2, '09, BBC | Read>>

California faces most significant water crisis in its history
After three dry years, all the factors influencing California's water supply are suffering. Info and things you can do...
Jan. '09 CA Dept. of Water Resources | Read>>

EPA Announces Safe Drinking Water Research
awarding $3.6 million in research grants to four universities, one non-profit, and one research institute to improve the detection of known and emerging drinking water contaminants;
Sept. '09 Water World | Read>>

Failure to meet United Nations sanitation target could affect millions of the world's poorest
The United Nations established the Target 10 initiative, which aims to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015.....
Sept. 11 , '08 Bio-Medicine

Half world's food never reaches the table
World Water Week in Stockholm concluded today with a warning that slow progress on sanitation will cause the world to badly fail the Global Millennium Development Goals. It also agreed that weak policy, poor management, increasing waste and exploding water demands are pushing the planet towards the tipping point of a global water cr isis.
Aug. 22, '08, People and Planet | Read>>

Planet Earth Hung Out to Dry
Like kudzu and other invasive species, the overgrowth of humans on Earth is a fundamental imbalance that is disrupting long-established physical and biological systems everywhere....
Aug 7 , '08 On A Ledge

Is Florida the Sunset State? Water, Water, Everywhere...
Florida's leaders believed that if they could just drain the swamp, they could turn a peninsular wasteland into a recreational, agricultural and residential paradise. They failed catastrophically...
July 10, '08 Time Magazine

U.S. faces era of water scarcity
Just as diminishing supplies of oil and natural gas are wrenching the economy and producing changes in lifestyles built on the principle of plenty, states and communities across the country are confronting another significant impediment to the American way of life: increased competition for scarce water...
July 9, '08 Circle of Blue

Present U.S. water usage unsustainable: an interview with Dr. Peter Gleick
We now see growing water shortages not just in places that we used to think were dry, but in places that we used to think were wet. We’re ignoring the way we use water...
July 8, '08 Circle of Blue

Sanitation 'crucial' for tackling water-borne disease
Effective and affordable interventions that provide the global population with access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation are needed if water-borne diseases are ever to be controlled...
July 2, '08 Environmental News Network

Weather reports are missing the story
The floodwaters are rising, swamping cities, breaching levees. Tens of thousands are displaced. Many are dead. No, I am not talking about Hurricane Katrina, but about the Midwest United States...
June 19, '08 Democracy Now

Life, Liberty, Water by Maude Barlow
As climate change and worldwide shortages loom, will people fight over water or join together to protect it? A global water justice movement is demanding a change in international law to ensure the universal right to clean water for all.
May, '08 Yes Magazine

Town in the Andes face crisis as glaciers melt
An abandoned alpine lodge is all that remains of Bolivia's renowned Chacaltaya ski resort, the world's highest at 17,388 feet above sea level. Today, the expansive 150-foot thick glacier, which once attracted thousands of tourists, has been reduced to a lone patch of ice about 9-feet deep, visited only by gawkers and concerned scientists.
April 24, '08 San Francisco Chronicle

Blood and water fuel Maasai warriors' marathon
They survive on fresh blood drained from the neck of a living cow, they often run for days and nights on end to find water and their shoes are made from car tires cut up and strapped to their feet.
April 8, '08 Reuters

CNN Planet Peril: World Water Crisis
World water crisis CNN's Isha Sesay speaks with Dr. Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, about the world's water problems.
March '09, CNN on YouTube

Drugs found in drinking water
A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
March 11, '08 AP: USA Today