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Category: Water

Speech to UN General Assembly introducing the resolution on : “The Human Right to Water and Sanitation”
Intervention of the Permanent Representative of the Plurinational State of Bolivia in the General Assembly of the United Nations “The Human Right to Water and Sanitation” New York, July 28, 2010 Mr. President, Allow me to begin the presentation of this Resolution by recalling that human ... Continued...

Water to be a human right?
A resolution before the UN General Assembly this week seeks to declare the right to water and sanitation as a human right – a move that should give a push to address the severe and increasing global water crisis. THERE is almost nothing more important to human beings than water. We cannot live wi... Continued...

Tap that water: Controversy surrounds the argument for dam-building in Africa
AFRICA is the “underdammed” continent. It is the least irrigated and electrified, yet it uses only 3% of its renewable water, against 52% in South Asia. So there is plenty of scope for an African dam-building boom. Ghana long ago dammed the River Volta, Egypt the Nile, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambiqu... Continued...

World Bank and OECD call for hike in global water price
Experts call for hike in global water price: World Bank and OECD say water is a finite resource that must be valued at a higher price in order to repair old supply systems and build new ones Major economies are pushing for substantial increases in the price of water around the world as concern mo... Continued...

Gore Takes Cash for Water Campaign from Chemical Firm
Published on Sunday, April 18, 2010 by The Indepenent/UK Gore Takes Cash for Water Campaign from Chemical Firm Environmentalists condemn former vice-president for letting controversial company fund Life Earth Al Gore, the self-styled squeakiest-clean and deepest-green politician in American ... Continued...

Severn Trent presses for reforms to allow water trading
The water industry needs to undergo radical reform in order to survive, according to one of the biggest utilities in Britain, Severn Trent. The reforms would also reduce debt levels and customers' bills, according to chief executive Tony Wray, who wants companies to divert more water from rivers ... Continued...

Pickens Wants Texas Agency to Nix Water Plan
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- Billionaire T. Boone Pickens wants a court to derail state approval of a water management plan that he claims would take $10 million off the value of his groundwater rights in the Texas Panhandle. Pickens' attorney, Marty Jones, said Tuesday that the oilman filed a lawsuit ... Continued...

How dry is my valley? Farms short on water
On a crisp, brilliant day at the end of March, the farms near the Sacramento Valley town of Arbuckle were bursting with green and looked as if they'd popped straight off a fruit-crate label. A few wet clouds hung over the Coast Range, and Doug Griffin kept a wary eye on them, hoping they would bring... Continued...

The Complications of Measuring Water Use
In The New York Times on Wednesday, I reported about the Carbon Disclosure Project�s new campaign to get global corporations to report their water use. Climate change is expected to worsen water shortages in the coming decades, and 137 international financial institutions are backing the Carbon... Continued...

China considering green tax as extent of air and water pollution is revealed
The national survey, which took 570,000 staff two years to complete, also revealed China's intensive farming practices were almost equally to blame for pollution as its many factories and coal-fired power stations. Announcing the results of China's first official nationwide pollution survey China... Continued...

Salmon Water Now Exposes Big Ag's Manipulation of Delta Water Policy
Salmon Water Now, a collaboration between fishermen and media professionals, has released a superb new video, “The Water Pirates,” describing how agribusiness maintains a dangerous stranglehold on water management policy in California, according to Larry Collins, commercial salmon fisherman. Anybody... Continued...

India Spars with Pakistan, China over Water
A water war looms in the Indus River basin Kashmir has for decades been a bone of contention between India and Pakistan over which the two countries have fought wars. Now, with both sides desperate for more water from population and industrialization pressures, hydroelectric projects on either si... Continued...

CARE Electric: Hydropower Without Dams
Lifelong inventor Johann Hoffmann has devised a way to harness river power to generate electricity without building expensive, environmentally destructive dams Johann Hoffmann started patenting inventions to protect the environment while still a young boy in his native Austria. His first? creat... Continued...

Coal-bed methane working group to meet
GILLETTE, Wyo. — A working group formed to study issues related to water discharge from coal-bed methane wells will hold its first meeting Wednesday in Gillette. The Department of Environmental Quality formed the group to help resolve differences over how coal-bed methane water should be regulate... Continued...

Leasing water system could be a risky move for Chicago: Mayor Richard Daley could learn from other cities' experiences
Mayor Richard Daley says any part of city government is up for grabs if the price is right. But if he is tempted to dangle Chicago's vast water system as his next lease deal, he might want to first consult Atlanta, which is still smarting from a botched experiment with privatizing a big-city wate... Continued...

Man-made ponds behind arsenic in Bangladesh water: crop irrigation was playing a role in the process.
London: MIT researchers claim to have tracked down the origin of dissolved arsenic in Bangladesh's drinking water. The research team led by Rebecca Neumann and Khandakar Ashfaque have found that human alteration to the landscape, the construction of villages with ponds, and the adoption of irriga... Continued...

US is getting better at conserving water: 80 % water used in thermo-electric plants and farms
FRESNO, Calif. — A new study shows that water usage per person is lower now than it was in the mid-1950s, thanks to water-saving technologies and a nationwide push to safeguard dwindling supplies. The study from the U.S. Geological Survey shows that industries, as well as average households, also... Continued...

Back to Traditional Farming to Beat Climate Change
PENANG, Malaysia, Oct 9 (IPS/IFEJ) - When organisers of an international conference on climate change and the food crisis first scheduled the event here for late September, little did they realise the event would be sandwiched by two typhoons buffeting the region. Ironically, the first typhoon, ‘Ket... Continued...

We Have Land Rights but No Water Rights - Farmers, South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 5 (IPS) - Thandi Sihadi stands next to a dry tap. As a maize and dairy farmer in one of South Africa’s driest districts, the lack of running water is nothing new to her. In fact, she says, she is one of many new black farmers who may now be fortunate enough to have land, but who... Continued...

Water interests argue new state dam proposals
Thirty years ago, a chunk of chain, an eyebolt and Mark Dubois helped end the era of big dam building in California. Dubois, a bearded, 6-foot-8, 30-year-old river guide from Sacramento, chained himself to a rocky outcropping on the north bank of the Stanislaus River and stayed there for a week, ... Continued...

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