(March 23, 2009, William Eagle, VOA News)
Development experts are looking at better ways to cope with water shortages. They’re worried about predictions from scientists that population pressures will increase the demand for water to meet needs for food and energy. This concern comes as countries try to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals. Among them [...]
(March 20, 2009, Ben Block, WorldChanging)
In his inauguration speech in January, U.S. President Barack Obama mentioned four words that lifted the hearts of water advocates worldwide: “Let clean water flow.”
Although Obama has proposed doubling U.S. spending on foreign aid, his new budget, released last month, offers few details on whether the additional funding will support [...]
(March 5, 2009, Kansas City InfoZine)
Maintaining water quality and efficiency shouldn’t be purely a local problem, a panel of water experts told the House Science and Technology Committee Wednesday.
Five witnesses said federal agencies should cooperate on water research and policy initiatives to combat scarcity caused by drought and population growth.
“We can’t continue to use the [...]
(March 5, 2009, The Valley Advocate)
The Massachusetts power deregulation law of the late 1990s, which allowed the building of so-called “merchant” power plants unrelated to the old regional utilities, is leading to the rise of small new power companies with their eyes on one of the Valley’s most important resources: its water.
The Advocate has previously [...]
(Jan. 4, 2009, MySanAntonio)
More than a decade ago, Texas kicked off an ambitious and comprehensive program to guarantee that the state’s urban and rural regions would have the water supplies they needed through 2050. Much good work has been done under the framework established by 1997’s Senate Bill 1, but Texas still faces alarming trends [...]
(Oct. 10, 2008, Austin Business Journal)
National infrastructure firm PBS&J plans to aggressively tap into the estimated $173 billion Texas water development market with a team of well-known experts.
There is the growing awareness you need to focus on the whole hydrologic cycle of water. It rains, you capture it, store it, use it and treat it. [...]
