EcoWorldly – San Francisco,USA | Written by Joshua S Hill With predictions pointing to a global rise in sea levels over the next century, many countries are beginning the first stages of planning to deal with such increases. For Asia, a land where population density is the least of their problems, but a major problem [...]
Archive for September, 2008 ↓
India-Nepal water talks resume after four years
Indo-Asian News Service Kathmandu, September 29, 2008 Neighbours India and Nepal, who share the same Himalayan rivers and are often at loggerheads over the sharing of flowing water resources, resumed bilateral water-sharing talks after four years in the Napal capital on Monday. The three-day meeting of the Joint Committee on Water Resources is led by [...]
'Unnecessary' dam project threatens rarest wildlife
By Michael McCarthy, Environment editor Monday, 29 September 2008 One of the world’s rarest reptiles, the critically-endangered Siamese crocodile, is gravely threatened by a proposed dam in an unspoilt region of Cambodia, British conservationists warn. Construction of the Chay Areng dam in the Cardamom mountains will wipe out a fifth or more of the remaining [...]
Billions could get gain access to clean water through nanotechnology
Copenhagen, Denmark — Hard work, bleeding-edge innovation and hope are driving the fledgling products and services of nanotechnology — science on the scale of atoms and molecules — along a pipeline that starts in the research laboratory and ends in a range of improved applications. Nanoscale materials, coatings, membranes, catalysts and other technologies are being [...]
Coalition Pledges $400 Million For Clean Water, Sanitation
Wall Street Journal – USA More than a dozen non-governmental organizations, some of them coalitions of charities, foundations and companies, pledged more than $400 million in various efforts to improve access to clean water and sanitation in the developing world. The effort, dubbed the “Global Health Mega-Commitment on Water and Sanitation” for the Clinton Global [...]
Junta's hydropower projects to endanger biodiversity of Salween River
Mungpi Saturday, 27 September 2008 16:18 New Delhi – Over 40 endangered plant and animal species found in the Salween River in eastern Burma will become extinct if the ruling junta goes ahead with its construction of hydropower dams, a new environmental report said. The report titled ‘Khoe Kay: Biodiversity in Peril’ released by a [...]
PepsiCo Foundation Announces Innovative New Initiatives to Drive Sustainable Water Practices
PURCHASE, N.Y., Sept. 25 — PepsiCo Foundation announced today two major new grants to WaterPartners and Safe Water Network programs to provide access to safe water and sanitation for individuals and communities in developing countries. The grants, totaling $7.6 million, are a component of the ongoing commitment by PepsiCo Foundation to promote and accelerate sustainable [...]
The Middle East’s Water Crisis: Will the Jordan River Run Dry?
Posted on September 24, 2008 by lorna.ir The River Jordan has flowed freely for thousands of years, its name immortalized in the Hebrew Bible and its lush upper reaches once known as the gates to the Garden of Eden. This summer, however, large sections of this storied river were reduced to a trickle, the water [...]
Power Surge: The Impacts of Rapid Dam Development in Laos
September 25, 2008 | Carl Middleton – International Rivers Laos has declared it a national priority to catalyze the country’s development through the rapid construction of large dams that export high-risk hydropower to neighboring Thailand and Vietnam. With six big dams already in operation, seven currently under construction, at least 12 more in the works [...]
Ban Urges Expanded Access To Safe Drinking Water
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 12:42 pm Press Release: United Nations Ban urges accelerated efforts to expand access to safe drinking water 24 September 2008 – Warning that a world without water will be very unstable, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for a three-pronged strategy to ensure that the poorest inhabitants of the developing world have [...]
