Maplecroft: The viability of water supplies throughout key regions of China, India, Pakistan, South Africa and the US are under…
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…
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…
(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…
By Codi Yeager , Circle of Blue: Though farmers are improving farm practices and productivity, the planet’s growing population —…
(Xinhua) — China faces a tougher situation in water resources in the future as demand increases amid the country’s rapid…
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. …
Deloitte: The growing demand for water is making conservation and efficient use central issues, particularly as governments, utilities and the…
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…
Reuters: Water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century, said…
Al Jazeera: The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has declared a state of emergency due to a severe shortage of…
(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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
LONDON (AlertNet) – One of the most severe droughts in 60 years has hit more than 10 million people in…
ActionAid: Poor rains in the last two wet seasons have led to severe drought across large parts of the Horn…
AlertNet Video: More than ten million people face drought and starvation in the Horn of Africa region as aid agencies…
Charles Emmerson, July 2011, The World Today, Volume 67, Number 7
Why water security is one of the greatest challenges of…
Some 10 million people are at risk in the Horn of Africa as two years of drought have forced food…
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…
AQUASTAT is FAO’s global information system on water and agriculture, developed by the Land and Water Division. The main mandate…
BY LESTER R. BROWN | MAY/JUNE 2011
Welcome to the new food economics of 2011: Prices are climbing, but the impact…
BY LESTER BROWN | JANUARY 10, 2011
As the new year begins, the price of wheat is setting an all-time high in the…
Heavy rains in central China last week will help China produce extra hydroelectric power in the coming weeks, but not…
A new scramble for Africa is under way. As global food prices rise and exporters reduce shipments of commodities, countries…
Lake Buchanan in Central Texas and Lake Travis:
These two lakes serve as key water sources for dozens of cities and…
Individual weather events are not “caused” by any single phenomenon—and climate change’s contribution to individual events will not be resolved…
The New York Times: One of the driest spring seasons on record in northern Europe has sucked soils dry and…
New York Times: The world’s third-largest river — stretching from the Himalayas thousands of miles to the east meeting the sea…
Climate change will have major impacts on the availability of water for growing food and on crop productivity in the…
In the past year, the world has seen a large number of extreme weather events, from the Russian heat wave…
The goal of the International Food Policy Research Institute’s “World Food Crisis” project is improved food security for the poor…
Broken food system and environmental crises spell hunger for millions. Oxfam launches global GROW campaign.
A new report, ‘Growing a Better…
