From EurekAlert 4-year study calls for urgent reforms to avert further desertification threatening ‘poorest of the poor’ worldwide “Arid aquaculture” using ponds filled with salty, undrinkable water for fish production is one of several options experts have proven to be an effective potential alternative livelihood for people living in desertified parts of the world’s expanding [...]
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World’s water dries up
Mail and Guardian – South Africa | YOLANDI GROENEWALD – Nov 06 2008 South Africans should brace themselves for a severely water-stressed future, a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report on the world’s ecological footprint warned this week. The influential international report has been released every two years for the past decade. In 1996 it warned [...]
Thousands evacuate as Vietnam capital battles flood
Reuters | Wednesday, 5 November 2008 and published in The Independent More than 40,000 people were evacuated from inundated areas of Hanoi today and some residents who stayed behind had to cope with floating garbage as they waited for flooding to recede even though rains eased. Authorities in Vietnam’s capital moved more than 10,300 families [...]
Growing slums 'face water crisis'
BBC Rapid urbanisation in developing nations threatens to trigger a water and sanitation crisis in quickly expanding slums, a report has warned. Charity WaterAid said chronic water shortages in many of the world’s slums were being exacerbated by the arrival of millions of people each week. … Read article… Visit BBC News Online
Myanmar in misery six months on
The National | November 03 2008 | Larry Jagan, Foreign Correspondent BANGKOK // Six months after a devastating cyclone hit Myanmar, more than a million people are still living in misery, wondering when things will return to normal. In remote areas along the coastline, villages still receive only intermittent food assistance, according to community workers [...]
U.S. court reinstates Bhopal water pollution case
Reuters | Martha Graybow NEW YORK, Nov 3 (Reuters) – A lawsuit contending that thousands of people in India were exposed to polluted drinking water after the 1984 Union Carbide toxic-gas disaster in Bhopal was reinstated on Monday by a U.S. appeals court, which said a lower court improperly threw out the case. The U.S. [...]
The Coca-Cola System Announces New Global Targets for Water Conservation and Climate Protection in Partnership with WWF
MarketWatch | Oct. 30, 2008 ATLANTA, Oct 30, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Coca-Cola Company, in partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), today announced ambitious new targets to improve water efficiency and reduce carbon emissions within its system-wide operations, while promoting sustainable agricultural practices and helping to conserve the world’s most important freshwater basins. “Our [...]
Small hydropower plants have electricity but no transmission lines
VietNamNet Bridge | 30/10/2008 Tens of small hydropower plants may be unable to sell electricity because there are no transmission lines to the national grid. The plants’ investors have no other choice than waiting for the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) to help settle the problem. The northern province of Lao Cai plans to build 80 [...]
