The Express Tribune KARACHI: The Sindh forest department has decided to declare the entire stretch of mangrove forests within the Indus Delta region as “Protected Area”, Sindh minister for home and forests, Dr Zulfiqar Mirza, said on Wednesday while marking the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. Mirza issued directives to the Provincial Secretary [...]
'Summit On The Summit' Tackles A Mountain, Fights The Clean Water Crisis
Looks like the run up to World Water Day is happening a week early on MTV. Go celebs! A few months ago, electro-pop mastermind Kenna got the idea to ascend Mount Kilimanjaro in order to raise awareness for the worldwide clean water crisis. He recruited a bunch of friends (including Jessica Biel, Santigold, Lupe Fiasco [...]
Yemen to Soon Have the World’s First Waterless Capital
By Rachelle Kliger for The Media Line Yemen’s water crisis is worsening as the country struggles with armed conflicts on three fronts. As delegates head to the United Kingdom for a key conference on Yemen, experts warn that Sanaa could become the first capital in the world to run out of water within a decade. [...]
Wired Water: IT Gets Ready for the Shock
By Ned Madden | TechNewsWorld IBM has jumped in fully clothed. Big Blue’s Big Green portfolio of smart water services and technologies uses advanced analytics developed by mathematicians in IBM’s labs, as well as the company’s information management, technology services, and business consulting capabilities. To replace workers dispatched in trucks to check on water quality [...]
Wake up: Nature has solution for world water crisis, says IUCN
21 March 2009 | News – Press Release Ministers at the World Water Forum need to pay more attention to the environment if they want to solve the world’s water crisis, according to IUCN. “Governments have to realize that nature has a vital role to play in giving people clean drinking water, food and livelihoods,” [...]
Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World
Wow! Here’s a treat. Download a pdf (38mb) of ‘Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World’ from Amazon on this page Created by Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt. The forward is written by Robert Redford. From the comments left by readers I’ve picked this from Bridget Bierman from April [...]
Dry Taps in Mexico City: A Water Crisis Gets Worse
Today, April 11, Ioan Grillo writes for TIME from Mexico City… About five million people, or a quarter of the population of Mexico City’s urban sprawl, woke up Thursday with dry taps. The drought was caused by the biggest stoppage in the city’s main reservoir system in recent years to ration its depleting supplies. Government [...]
Fixing Our Water Crisis Can't Be Done by the Corporations that Are Exacerbating It
By Jeff Conant, AlterNet. Posted April 2, 2009. If we learned anything from the World Water Forum it should be that the privatization model has failed and a grassroots movement is needed. As the Fifth World Water Forum ended recently in Istanbul, a number of stories came out, each of which might have emerged as [...]
5th world water forum commences with UN world water report release
Al Bawaba | Turkey | 17-03-2009 More than 28,000 Attendees, Including State Heads, Assemble in Istanbul to Address Water Crisis The 5th World Water Forum, a weeklong summit to push the worldwide water crisis onto the international agenda, convened today in Istanbul. The day commenced with an opening ceremony followed by the dissemination of the [...]
