Over 600 water practitioners are discussing the water crisis facing countries in Asia and the Pacific, the consequent threats to…
In recent decades, the rate at which humans worldwide are pumping dry the vast underground stores of water that billions…
Climate change will affect the water security of developing countries. Lucinda Mileham explores their priorities as they struggle to cope.
Freshwater…
Participants at the 2010 World Water Week in Stockholm urged the High Level Plenary meeting on the Millennium Development Goals…
How can we as a society address the many problems that plague the…
Threatened by a cut in Nile water supply, Egypt sees its leading regional role draining away and its desert farms…
Water for Food, Water for Life
Water scarcity is a reality for about 1/3 of the world’s population. Driving increasing water…
In its latest report on the progress of the UN Millennium Development Goal to halve the proportion of people lacking…
JOHANNESBURG, 21 April 2010 (IRIN) – How can a villager in Ethiopia, at the mercy of the climate’s eccentricities, get…
PYINKAYAING, 13 April 2010 (IRIN) – Water scarcity has become a daily challenge in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwaddy Delta in the dry…
A new approach to desalination being developed by researchers at MIT and in Korea could lead to small, portable desalination…
Many schools in poorer countries lack adequate water and sanitation facilities, affecting children’s educations and even claiming lives, the United…
A closer look at eight gadgets and techniques that could help the world cope with water scarcity
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, April 1 (Reuters) – People in the Arab world need fuller and freer information about shrinking water supplies…
Crops that provide a lifeline to farmers and their families in developing countries are coming under pressure from increasingly unpredictable…
‘Water Views’: Perspectives on the Global Water Crisis
A global study commissioned by Molson Coors, conducted by GlobeScan and Circle of…
Connecting Voices Globally to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change, Poverty and Economic Recovery
Global Event
On March 25, State of the…
DAMASCUS, 25 March 2010 (IRIN) – Poor planning and management, wasteful irrigation systems, intensive wheat and cotton farming and a…
The Nile Delta’s Sinking Future
John Bohannon
As Egypt celebrates the 50th anniversary of the start of the construction of the Aswan…
ScienceDaily (Mar. 22, 2010) — Climate change and environmental degradation are likely to trigger increased migration in Sub-Saharan Africa with…
Nairobi (Kenya), 22 March 2010 – Transforming wastewater from a major health and environmental hazard into a clean, safe and…
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 18, 2010 (IPS) – Bad water kills more people than wars or earthquakes, declares Anders Berntell, executive…
NAIROBI, 17 March 2010 (IRIN) – An acute water shortage after a prolonged drought in central Galgadud region of Somalia…
Almost 10 million people across the Sahel region of West Africa are threatened with a severe food shortage, international aid…
International Circle of Blue | GlobeScan survey finds fresh water pollution, scarcity drive public concern
A comprehensive Circle of Blue |…
Population growth, urban development, farm production, and climate change is increasing competition for fresh water and producing shortages so acute…
A low-cost water purification technique published in Current Protocols in Microbiology could help drastically reduce the incidence of waterborne disease…
A short monsoon and low rainfall have cut the region’s economic lifeblood to a trickle
One of the worst droughts in…
ISIOLO-NAIROBI, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) – At least 10,000 people in Kenya have been displaced by flooding, mainly in the…
NEW DELHI, March 5, 2010: India is the largest user of groundwater in the world, with an estimated use of…
PORT OF SPAIN, Mar 4, 2010 (Tierramérica) – Caribbean countries are considering options like desalination plants and cloud seeding to…
A review from the UK Met Office says it is becoming clearer that human activities are causing climate change.
It says…
Key facts
* Climate change affects the fundamental requirements for health – clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure…
Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map
Cleo Paskal must be cursing the publishing gods.…
In November 2006, the Secretary-General Kofi Annan launched the Nairobi Framework, aimed at supporting the application of the Kyoto Protocol’s…
Analyzing global model warming projections in models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a team of scientists headed…
Program Summary: Human caused climate change is well underway and almost certain to continue in the decades ahead. Comprehensive risk…
Rains stopped just after crops were planted and did not resume until mid-February, so many farmers had nothing to harvest,…
Pure water is a key requirement for good health and alternative cheap, safe methods are required in many countries. In…
Gebisa Ejeta:
Africa missed out on the scientific breakthroughs that revolutionized agriculture in Asia. However, with locally developed and locally relevant…
AAAS 2010 Annual Meeting News
A panel of influential U.S. and European scientists yesterday affirmed the overwhelming scientific consensus that the…
This figure tracks newspaper coverage of climate change or global warming in 50 newspapers across 20 countries and 6 continents.
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January 31, 2010 marked the deadline for parties to the Copenhagen Accord to submit their respective plans for reducing greenhouse…
