By Barbara Demick reporting from Beijing for the Los Angeles Times About 1.4 million are evacuated as harsh weather lashes several provinces, including Fujian, where 31 are said to have died. Torrential rains in southern and central China are forecast for the coming week. After months of punishing drought, China’s rainy season has returned with [...]
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James G. Workman (June 17) — In his Oval Office speech on the BP oil spill, President Barack Obama tried to harness our pent-up outrage over the 2.5 million gallons of crude spewing daily into the Gulf of Mexico — a sickening amount equal to an Exxon Valdez every four days — to wean the [...]
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By Uttam Kumar Sinha for The Washington Post Monday, June 14, 2010-While Tibet raises a number of controversial questions, one dimension will assume increasing political significance: its water resources. The Tibetan Plateau, known to many as the “Third Pole,” is an enormous storehouse of freshwater, believed by some to be the world’s largest. It is [...]
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By Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California for Treehugger. In the first ever global analysis of how dams impact food security and livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy and partners found that at least 472 million people have experienced the downside of dams. The new study goes beyond the displacement of people by new dam projects and into [...]
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By Blake Schmidt for Bloomberg May 31 (Bloomberg) — Agatha, the first tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season, weakened to a tropical depression over the mountains of Guatemala after killing at least 99 people in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Landslides and flooding triggered by Agatha’s rains killed 82 people and left 53 [...]
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By Isabel Hilton. Editor of China Dialogue BG Verghese is an Indian water expert, political commentator and professor at New Delhi’s Centre for Policy Research. Here, he talks to Isabel Hilton about the trans-boundary rivers of the Third Pole. Isabel Hilton: How would you assess the state of cooperation in the Himalayan watershed? BG Verghese: [...]
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The Independent Plotting the world’s water is expensive – a satellite designed for the job cost £280m. Holly Williams explains why its findings will be worth the investment You’ve probably heard the dubious statistic that a glass of tap water in London has cycled through seven different people before ending up in your tumbler. But [...]
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Claude Arpi In October 2003, I wrote an article Diverting the Brahmaputra: a Declaration of War for Rediff.com. At the time, I was told that it was a cheap journalistic gimmick; there was no ‘scientific’ proof! My question then was: “What is the rationale for the project?” I had explained: “Two of the most acute [...]
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Analysis – By Johanna Son for IPS BANGKOK, Apr 6, 2010 (IPS) – Lost in the deluge of accusations that China’s dams are the culprit in the Mekong River’s unusually low levels is the fact that Beijing has actually become much less tightlipped about thorny issues with its neighbours than in the past. Some years [...]
From communities and kindness at USA Today A glass of tap water cost me $1 last night along with a slice of my favorite pizza. Why the extra cost? Tap water is usually taken for granted at pizza joints and restaurants across the country. The same cannot be said for many countries in the world. [...]
