(March 24, 2009, The Wall Street Journal)
As Don Bransford prepares for his spring planting season, he is debating which is worth more: the rice he grows on his 700-acre farm north of Sacramento, or the water he uses to cultivate it.
After three years of drought in California, water is now a potential cash crop. Last [...]
(Feb. 10, 2009, Forbes Magazine)
We want oil and iPods, but we can’t live without water. That alone makes it the world’s most precious commodity. But, still, most casual investors might be hard pressed to think of ways to play H20, as it is seemingly free. There is no Exxon of water.
But maybe there should be. [...]
(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 [...]
(March 13, 2009, The New York Times)
Give I.B.M. credit for technological ambition and a willingness to tackle big problems.
I.B.M. is presenting a new bundle of services and research offerings at the World Water Forum in Istanbul on Monday. The package, grandly called Strategic Water Management Solutions, is the most recent entry in I.B.M.’s so-called smart [...]
(March 7, 2009, Arizona Geology)
There have been 550,000 applications to appropriate deep, “non-potable” water in New Mexico in recent months according to story in the Alamagordo Daily News.
The New Mexico legislature and the state engineer are seeking to take state control of water deeper than 2,500 feet in anticipation of efforts to desalinate brackish water [...]
(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 [...]
(Feb. 24, 2009, Aguanomics)
San Diego is looking north for water this year, working out a number of smaller option agreements with Sacramento Valley Districts. I looked into one 10,000 AF transfer with South Feather Water and Power to get a handle on numbers for this year.
San Diego is paying $10 per acre-foot for the option [...]
(Jan. 22, 2009, Napa Valley Register)
American Canyon may spend up to $400,000 to buy extra water to meet its needs, the city council decided Tuesday.
In addition to buying 1,300 acre-feet of State Water Project supplies, AmCan officials will soon initiate stepped-up conservation measures to reduce current water use by 20 percent.
American Canyon needs to be [...]
(Dec. 19, 2008, The Mercury News)
A plan to upgrade the water system that supplies more than two million people in the San Francisco Bay Area with drinking water is moving forward. Mayor Gavin Newsom signed a bill Friday that appropriates $1.9 billion for the $4.4 billion Water System Improvement Program, which was passed by voters.
City [...]
(Dec. 15, 2008, PRWeb)
America’s failing water and wastewater sector looks set to decline further in 2009, as capital expenditure on crucial infrastructure projects is cut back by 12.9%, according to Water Market USA*, published today by Global Water Intelligence. Restraints on borrowing, shrinking tax bases and a drop in capital contributions from property developers have [...]
(Dec. 10, 2008, The San Francisco Bay Guardian)
One-half of 1 percent of the world’s water is fresh. [1]
Of that .5 percent, about 50 percent is polluted. [2]
One in 6 people don’t have access to clean, safe water. [3]
Five food and beverage giants — Nestlé, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Anheuser Busch, and Groupe Danone — consume almost 575 [...]
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As water management blossoms, a boom in all things water is coming to the US and the World.
In a state like Arizona, where the water and power supplies are intimately entwined, the undervalued and hence underpriced non-renewable commodity we call water is growing scarcer and scarcer. While the demand booms, supply runs [...]
(Nov., 2008, GreenerBuildings.com)
With freshwater supplies tightening due to overuse and more extreme weather patterns, business is coming under more pressure to measure and cut water use. This conference showcases the companies that have woken up to the risks and benefits of water management and are inventing new techniques to cut consumption. It also features the [...]
