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Category Archives: Water scarcity
Green Hell: FoE offers ’10 ways to save water’
Why should we have to ration the most abundant substance on the planet? Continue reading
Posted in Water scarcity
Pot farms hurting environment
Looks like pot growers need water and pesticides, too. Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Pesticides, Water scarcity
What The Drought Of 2012 Tells Us About Industrial Agriculture
Ooh! Ooh! Me! That we need to stop destroying dams and impound more water, right? Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Water scarcity
Tagged climate hysteria, dams, weather superstition
Adaptation: Companies tackle ‘weird water’ risks head-on
On a Mongolian potato farm that supplies crops for Frito-Lay chips, parent company PepsiCo has reached water savings of 30 percent by installing pivot water systems, a transition from the flood watering that formerly hydrated the fields. The firm, which nets $65 billion annually, expects to convert again, this time to drip irrigation, using 50 percent less water than traditional farming methods. Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Development, Water scarcity, World resources
US and EU must change biofuel targets to avert food crisis, says Nestlé chief
Food company chief executive labels biofuels an aberration and expresses concern about potential impact of water wastage Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biofuels, Water scarcity
Tagged biofuel boondoggle, burning food, ethanol mandates, really stupid idea
Women Spend 40 Billion Hours Collecting Water
As the weeklong international conference on water concluded Friday, it was left to one of the keynote speakers from the United Nations to focus on a much neglected perspective on water and food security: the role of women. Continue reading
Posted in Development, Water scarcity
Editorial: Let’s not run out of water
At the intersection of water supply and government, Texas faces a Catch-22. Our minimalist approach to government gets credit for growing both our economy and our population. Continue reading
Posted in Water rights, Water scarcity
Report warns of oilsands impacts on groundwater
Thousands of people depend on the water below Alberta’s oilsands region, but the effects of industrial development on those water tables is not yet fully understood, a new report says. Continue reading
Posted in Development, Oil and gas, Tar sands, Water pollutiuon, Water rights, Water scarcity
Tagged oilsands
‘Eating’ Water Latest and Rising Threat to a Thirsty World
Here we go with the 7 ton T-bone again. 7,000 liters of water (7mt) in that steak, 5,000 pound burgers and 140 liters (37 gal.) of water in a cup of coffee (talk about bottomless cups!) Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Water scarcity
Water Trumping Carbon Spreads $17 Billion Market
Desalination equipment orders are forecast to triple over five years to become a $17 billion business, driven by breakthroughs in energy savings and demand by cities and industry. Continue reading
Posted in Cap & Tax, Carbon trading, Climate Change, Water scarcity
Tagged carbon scam, desalination
How £11bn pledged for water sanitation aid never arrived
Tens of millions denied access to clean water as cash for projects is not paid out Continue reading
Eye-roller: Don’t Waste the Drought
WE’RE in the worst drought in the United States since the 1950s, and we’re wasting it. Continue reading
Cap And Trade For Water Will Hurt Poor, Minorities Most – Of Course
Whenever ‘the poor’ and ‘minorities’ are invoked in the same headline, it’s good to set your skepticism filter extra low or you will likely never get through the first paragraph of an article (umm, including this one) because the issue is rarely science or even policy, it is instead advocacy. Continue reading
Posted in Development, Environmentalism, Water scarcity
A Different Approach to Coping With Drought
The bottom lie, literally, is that he wants $3million Continue reading
Water shortages hit US power supply
As the United States’ extended heat wave and drought threaten to raise global food prices, energy production is also feeling the pressure. Across the nation, power plants are becoming overheated and shutting down or running at lower capacity; drilling operations struggle to get the water they need, and crops that would become biofuel are withering. Continue reading
Part two: running dry – the worrying repercussions of running down irrigation research
Welcome to Part Two of Professor Andrew Campbell’s special report on the troubling plight of irrigation research and development in Australia. Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Water scarcity
Boom-and-bust salmon catch is booming again
After years of going begging, Northern California is awash in salmon. Charter boats are booked up to two weeks in advance, and anglers claim to be bagging their limits before noon. The smell of gurry and the glimmer of scales are back at San Francisco’s Pier 45, where commercial fishermen unload their catch. Continue reading
Posted in Water rights, Water scarcity
Tagged dams, fisheries, hatchery salmon, hydro power, salmon protection
Study: California must improve salmon, steelhead hatcheries
Most of the salmon caught in California come from hatcheries in the Sacramento Valley, yet it turns out not much is known about these fish even though they are bred by hand. Continue reading
Posted in Water rights, Water scarcity
Tagged dams, fisheries, hatchery salmon, hydro power, salmon protection
Is this Mojave water project worth the risk?
A private company’s plan to tap a desert aquifer needs more study before going forward. Continue reading
Posted in Water rights, Water scarcity
