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Oil and Water Mix: Four Reasons Why Water will Be Big(ger) (LeakBird)

There’s a lot of talk comparing the oil boom to the coming water boom. Discussing whether water will be bigger and more important than oil is kind of a foolish tack, IMHO.  The point is that we can hardly do anything without water.  I think that rather than comparing the two industries, it’s more useful [...]

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Free Water Markets: Chile Trading Water Rights with Little to No Government Oversight (NewYorkTimes)

(March 14, 2009, The New York Times)
During the past four decades here in Quillagua, a town in the record books as the driest place on earth, residents have sometimes seen glimpses of raindrops above the foothills in the distance. They never reach the ground, evaporating like a mirage while still in the air.
What the town [...]

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Cities in China to See Sharp Rise in Water Rates, as Water Shortage Becomes More Severe: Average Domestic Water Price $.55 Per Ton of Water (ChinaDaily)

(March 10, 2009, China Daily)
The authorities need to push ahead with a price hike, reflecting accurately the growing shortage of water in China and help plug further depletion of the resource, an official has said.
“We must set up a rational water pricing system adapted to the country’s severe shortage of water. So some cities will [...]

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Solving the Water Shortage Crisis: Water Innovation Opportunities for Water Entrepreneurs (SramanaMitra)

(March 8, 2009, SramanaMitra)
While people focus on carbon footprints and potential ways to reduce the impact man-made CO2 emissions, the world is running out of another of its key elements: fresh water.
We use fresh water much faster than it can replenish: it is increasingly scarce and has no alternative.
Water is a strategic resource for countries [...]

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New Report Finds E. Coli in Some Cape Coral, Florida Well Water: 22,000 People Use Well Water There (MSNBC)

(March 6, 2009, MSNBC)
Cape Coral’s mayor is concerned some homeowners have contaminated well water. He wants to continue the Utilities Expansion Project, even if federal funding doesn’t come through.
“There’s a concern that the water may not meet drinking water standards,” said Cape Coral Public Works Director Chuck Pavlos.
A report from Lee County and Florida health [...]

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Nalco (NLC): Warren Buffett’s Small Cap Stock Investment in Water Industry (BloggingStocks)

(March 4, 2009, BloggingStocks)
“Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway revealed a new position in Nalco Holding (NYSE: NLC); it’s my favorite pure play on water filtration,” says Chris Mayer in Daily Wealth.
“With a $1.6 billion market cap, Nalco is a small-cap stock, but it’s actually one of the world’s largest water-treatment companies. Customers use Nalco’s products and [...]

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New York Drinking Water Supply Under Threat: Drilling for Natural Gas could Cause Water Pollution Cavity; Marcellus Shale Gas Layer could Contain 400 Trillion Cubic Feet of Gas = 20 Years Total US Production (AlterNet)

(Feb. 27, 2009, AlterNet)
The state has done little to study the impacts drilling might have on water supplies and is unprepared to treat the waste water it produces.
Got bubbles? Alarms have been ringing for months about the risk that natural gas drilling poses to drinking water supplies, but recent reports of water contamination just [...]

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China Vows Hyper-Water Efficiency: 60% Increase in Production (AssociatedPress)

(Feb. 15, 2009, Reuters)
China, faced with widespread water shortages exacerbated by its worst drought in decades, aims to cut the amount of water it uses to produce each dollar of national income by 60 percent by 2020, state media said.
The target, unveiled by Water Resources Minister Chen Lei, underlines Beijing’s growing concern over chronic water [...]

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Unintended Consequences: Water Conservation Causes Stagnation in Pipes, Leads to More Pollution, Heavier Toll on Infrastructure… (EScienceNews)

(Jan. 28, 2009, E-Science News)
Scientists and engineers will face a host of obstacles over the next decade in providing clean water to millions of people caught up in a water shortage crisis, a panel of scientists and engineers said today at a briefing at the Broadcast Center of the National Press Building on the Final [...]

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Ash Dumps On Lake Michigan Bleed Into Groundwater (MLive.com)

(Jan. 7, 2009, MLive.com)
Several coal or oil ash waste sites in Michigan and in Wisconsin and Indiana near the shores of Lake Michigan have contaminated nearby ground water and wells that threaten human health, according to a 2007 Environmental Protection Agency study cited by the New York Times.

A New York Times map shows some of [...]

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