Innovation Honored by Harvard Kennedy School`s Ash Institute for Improving Understanding of Water Usage in Agriculture CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters Business Wire) [wp_geo_map] The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University today announced Idaho`s Mapping Evapotranspiration program as a 2009 Innovations in American Government Award [...]
Poisoned water scare for millions in Durban
The Sowetan | South Africa | 15 October 2008 | Mhlaba Memela About 3,5 million people could be exposed to cancer in the Ethekwini region and some parts of Pietermaritzburg. KwaZulu-Natal MEC for agriculture and environmental affairs Mtholephi Mthimkhulu said studies showed elevated levels of mercury in streams around Durban. But the department has called [...]
Israel's demand for water is draining the Sea of Galilee
Financial Times Deutschland | Tobias Buck (Jerusalem) Falling water levels in the Sea of Galilee are raising questions about the sustainability of Israel’s fresh water supplies. Fishing, agriculture and tourism in the region are also being placed under strain. Amos Onn has lived on the banks of the biblical Sea of Galilee since 1956, when [...]
World needs to rethink biofuels – UN food agency
Reuters – USA ROME/MILAN, Oct 7 (Reuters) – The Western world needs to rethink its rush to biofuels, which has done more harm pushing up food prices than it has good by reducing greenhouse gases, a United Nations report said on Tuesday. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said policies encouraging biofuel production and [...]
Mekong farmers struggle with piles of unsold rice
Viet Nam News – Hanoi,Vietnam Farmers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta are getting more anxious about the large quantities of unsold summer-autumn rice crop they have in store as the annual flood and rainy season approaches. … Read article… Visit Vietnam News Online
