Maplecroft: The viability of water supplies throughout key regions of China, India, Pakistan, South Africa and the US are under…
ClimateCentral: Climate scientists have been saying for years that one of the many downsides of a warming planet is that…
BGS: Robust quantitative groundwater maps for Africa were developed to highlight areas more likely to be resilient to climate change…
AlertNet: Water is increasingly becoming a scarce resource and shortages could drive conflict, hit food and energy production and threaten…
This 30 second data visualization uses the measurements collected by the GRACE satellites over a period of 10 years to show seasonal and…
NRDC: Across the U.S., the impacts of climate change on water resources are already being seen. Warmer temperatures, changes in…
ODNI: Global Water Security
The Bottom Line: During the next 10 years, many regions will experience water challenges – shortages, poor…
The Africa Report: The “Millennium Dam on the Nile”, a mega hydro electric project, was launched last year with a…
(AlertNet) – Countries struggling to plot a greener energy mix face the extra headache of water scarcity from drought, squeezing…
(Reuters) – Ramiz Memidzan, 66, was a young boy when he last saw the village where he was born in…
OECD: Water management needs urgent reform if the world is to head off serious deterioration in the quality and quantity…
WHO: The world has met the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the proportion of people without sustainable access…
NOAA concluded in 2011 that “human-caused climate change [is now] a major factor in more frequent Mediterranean droughts.” Reds…
Guardian: Huge increase in large-scale mining is being fuelled by the rising price of metals and oil, as search for…
By Codi Yeager , Circle of Blue: Though farmers are improving farm practices and productivity, the planet’s growing population —…
UK Defra: Since June 2011, drought has affected Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, parts of Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, and west Norfolk. In February…
(Xinhua) — China faces a tougher situation in water resources in the future as demand increases amid the country’s rapid…
Bloomberg: Desert and drought-prone nations increasingly rely on water from other countries and don’t even know it. That’s the conclusion…
Guardian: Water used by the agricultural sector accounts for nearly 92% of annual global freshwater consumption, according to a study…
ChinaDaily: In the next five years, China will lay out and build a chain of seawater desalination facilities and technologies. …
(AlertNet) – For almost two months, an intense drought has been damaging crops in Argentina, especially corn and soy, threatening…
Deloitte: The growing demand for water is making conservation and efficient use central issues, particularly as governments, utilities and the…
LONDON (AlertNet) – Picture this: a terrible drought forces you to abandon your meager plot of farmland, so you migrate…
Guardian: How can we feed the 2.5 billion more people – an extra China and India – likely to be…
UNFCC: Building on recent reviews on climate change impacts on freshwater resources and adaptation strategies, this technical paper analyses existing…
FAO: Widespread degradation and deepening scarcity of land and water resources have placed a number of key food production systems around…
(Reuters) – Mexico is being battered its worst drought in seven decades, which has devastated farm life and is expected…
The Economist: A growing rivalry between India, Pakistan and China over the region’s great rivers may be threatening South Asia’s…
AlertNet: While Africa has successfully avoided conflict over shared water courses, it will need greater diplomacy to keep the peace…
Reuters: Water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century, said…
viewsoftheworld: World Population 2085
A lot has changed from the 2.5…
The Global Water Cycle is an integral part of the Earth System. It plays a central role in global atmospheric…
NATURE Climate Change: On 31 October 2011, according to projections made by the United Nations (UN), there will be seven…
Al Jazeera: The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has declared a state of emergency due to a severe shortage of…
In this post, Joe Romm summarizes what the recent scientific literature…
(IPS) – At least 200 million people in the world are in danger of being left without water, because they…
AlertNet – Major river basins in Africa, Asia and Latin America could sustainably double food production in some of the poorest…
Center for Biological Diversity
Our planet’s nearing a milestone: By the end of October, there will be a staggering 7 billion…
WRI’s portal for water risk analysis. This website contains information on the Aqueduct project, and the prototype of the Water…
Climate scientists agree that the existing gap between climate science and climate policy is profound. If the international community –…
NatureNews: Chris Funk explains how his group last year forecast the drought in Somalia that is now turning into famine…
KARACHI, Pakistan (AlertNet) – As population growth and climate change increase competition for water around the world, India and Pakistan…
(Reuters) – Three Himalaya glaciers have been shrinking over the last 40 years due to global warming and two of…
UNEP: Geneva, 11 July 2011-Boosting cooperation between countries sharing the waters of the Amu Darya, Central Asia’s longest river, could…
NASA: By July 2011, Texas and New Mexico had completed the driest six-month period on record. Average rain…
“Glacial Balance” will take us on a journey along the Andes – from Argentina to Colombia, dropping in on the…
Scientific American published a three-part series authored by award-winning science journalist John Carey and commissioned by the Pew Center on Global…
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 23, 2011 (IPS) – When the international community commemorates the first anniversary of a historic…
FEWS NET/USGS has merged two historical rainfall data sets: interpolated rain gauge data from 1950‐2009 and satellite derived rainfall estimates…
The 2011 Horn of Africa famine is a famine occurring in several regions in the Horn of Africa as a…
