(AlertNet) – Countries struggling to plot a greener energy mix face the extra headache of water scarcity from drought, squeezing…
OECD: Water management needs urgent reform if the world is to head off serious deterioration in the quality and quantity…
(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…
Deloitte: The growing demand for water is making conservation and efficient use central issues, particularly as governments, utilities and the…
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: Water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century, said…
The Global Water Cycle is an integral part of the Earth System. It plays a central role in global atmospheric…
Nairobi/Stockholm, 22 August 2010 – Recognising healthy ecosystems as the basis for sustainable water resources and stable food security can…
WRI’s portal for water risk analysis. This website contains information on the Aqueduct project, and the prototype of the Water…
KARACHI, Pakistan (AlertNet) – As population growth and climate change increase competition for water around the world, India and Pakistan…
UNEP: Geneva, 11 July 2011-Boosting cooperation between countries sharing the waters of the Amu Darya, Central Asia’s longest river, could…
“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…
Charles Emmerson, July 2011, The World Today, Volume 67, Number 7
Why water security is one of the greatest challenges of…
UNDP: Himalayan Meltdown, now airing on Discovery Channel Asia, examines how communities in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India and Nepal seek…
This year’s political unrest in the water-starved Middle East has raised the profile of the issue, with various commentators predicting…
Al Jazeera.: Almost half of humanity will face water scarcity by 2030 and strategists from Israel to Central Asia prepare…
A new scramble for Africa is under way. As global food prices rise and exporters reduce shipments of commodities, countries…
New York Times: The world’s third-largest river — stretching from the Himalayas thousands of miles to the east meeting the sea…
Climate is a key determinant for today’s demography. Climatic conditions change over time due to natural climate variability, but changes…
By Janet Raloff
Web edition : Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Children exposed in the womb to substantial levels of neurotoxic pesticides have…
Long after the political uprisings in the Middle East have subsided, many underlying challenges that are not now in the…
The World Bank eAtlas of Global Development maps and graphs more than 175 thematically organized indicators for over 200 countries,…
In an ongoing effort to understand the connections between water resources, water systems, and international security and conflict, the Pacific…
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
OSLO | Sun Mar 20, 2011 12:01pm EDT
OSLO (Reuters) – The United Nations should promote “hydro-diplomacy”…
The Agency’s new report ‘Mapping the impacts of natural hazards and technological accidents in Europe‘ addresses three different types of…
The Climate Vulnerability Monitor is a new tool built to assess the vulnerability of our world to the many effects…
United Nations climate change negotiations have failed to deliver an agreement on reducing future greenhouse gas emissions to levels that…
Glacial meltwater can be a crucial water source for human populations living in river basins, raising concerns about the affect…
This Atlas is a visual account of Africa’s endowment and use of water resources, revealed through 224 maps and 104…
Egypt, Ethiopia and seven other countries through which the river passes have been locked in more than a decade of…
Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters looks at disasters primarily through an economic lens. Economists emphasize self-interest to explain how people choose…
The major industrial economies of Australia, India, China and USA have been rated as ‘high risk’ in a new study…
Nearly 80% of the world’s population — 4.8 billion people as calculated in 2000 — live…
The United States and many other heavily populated countries face a growing threat of severe and prolonged drought in coming…
About 80% of the world’s population lives in areas where the fresh water supply is not secure, according to a…
In recent decades, the rate at which humans worldwide are pumping dry the vast underground stores of water that billions…
The web pages, produced with the support of leading scientists from the Met Office Hadley Centre and others, present an…
The FSI focuses on the indicators of risk and is based on thousands of articles and reports that are processed…
The 2009 State of the Climate report draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the…
Up to 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from contaminated drinking water, and even low-level…
In the next 50 years, it is estimated that drinking water needs in the Kabul Basin of Afghanistan may increase…
Four East African states have signed an agreement to seek more water from the River Nile, a move strongly opposed…
Four African countries on Friday signed a new treaty on the equitable sharing of the Nile waters despite strong opposition…
Hadera RO Desalination Plant was constructed within the grounds of Rabin Lights power station in Hadera, Israel. The plant is…
