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Science uproar stalls hydropower project
Shanghai Daily SOME of China’s leading scientists have won an environmental review of a controversial dam proposed for the country’s largest freshwater lake. Officials of Jiangxi Province government have conceded that the planned dam and hydropower project might harm the wildlife and environment of the 3,500-square-kilometer Poyang Lake. They have dropped the hydrostation in favor [...]
Experts Name the Top 19 Solutions to the Global Freshwater Crisis
From Circle of Blue The first installment of a four-part series on 19 solutions to the global freshwater crisis from more than 1200 leading international experts captured by GlobeScan and SustainAbility. Virtually every industry in the world anticipates sweeping systemic transformation over the next decade in their strategic planning, production practices, and business models, according [...]
Mekong summit changes nothing
Milton Osbourne for The Lowy Interpreter With something closer to a whimper than a bang, the first summit meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) concluded in Hua Hin, Thailand, on Monday 5 April. As I predicted, none of the MRC leaders chose to confront China over its repeated claims that dams in China have [...]
World water crisis warning to UK
By Angus Howarth for The Scotsman A POTENTIAL global water crisis in coming decades could cause UK food prices to “skyrocket” and damage the economy, experts warned today. A report from three engineering groups predicts that a rising world population, growing demand for water and the impact of climate change will make water more scarce [...]
Coming Era of Water Scarcity Will Prompt Global Industrial Transformation, According to Survey of International Experts
Acute water shortages will change strategy, business operations; depletion of global water resources is more rapid, severe, and complex than anticipated. By Keith Schneider for Circle of Blue WASHINGTON, D.C. – Population growth, urban development, farm production, and climate change is increasing competition for fresh water and producing shortages so acute that virtually every industry [...]
Water at core of climate change impacts-UN experts
* Water shortages risk triggering conflicts * But world can look to Indus, Mekong for cooperation By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent for REUTERS OSLO, Feb 7 (Reuters) – The main impact of climate change will be on water supplies and the world needs to learn from past cooperation such as over the Indus or Mekong [...]
Oxfam: Four billion people threatened by water shortages if climate change is not addressed
From WaterWorld Jan. 29, 2010 — World leaders are set to fail their first test on climate change since Copenhagen and put the world on track for almost four degrees of warming, said Oxfam International today, ahead of the 31 January deadline for countries to submit emission reduction targets under the Copenhagen Accord. Despite agreeing [...]
The Security Implications of Climate Change
From Justin Mundy – Director of Prince’s Rainforest Project and published online at The Huffington Post In the last fifty years we have managed to erode a third of the world’s farmable soil and despite ever increasing amounts of fertiliser, productivity per acre is reducing at a time when the demand for food is growing [...]
