(April 24, 2009, The Mercury News)
A $10 billion plan to build a canal around the Delta would not deliver significantly more water to cities and farms if it were in place this year, new data shows.
Water agencies and politicians from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on down have repeatedly stressed that water shortages this year from the [...]
(April 17, 2009, The Christian Science Monitor)
California’s third year of drought is stirring up long-standing – and usually low-simmering – tensions between farmers in northern and central California and urban consumers in the state’s dry Southland.
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David Zetland is Right: Water Rates have to Rise, and Globally Too (LeakBird)I think that David Zetland is onto the zeitgeist, only it hasn’t happened yet. What do I mean, or what is Mr. Zetland saying essentially?
Price water according to its scarcity, and water shortages will become a thing of the past.
This is the axe we hear Mr. Zetland grinding again and again, and it appears that [...]
(March 8, 2009, The Fresno Bee)
It is China’s latest grand attempt to tame nature. Three canals will bring water hundreds of miles to Beijing and other thirsty cities in the north. More than 350,000 people in the way will be forced to move.
For many in Zhangyigang, a village of 942 people in brick and mud [...]
(Feb. 26, 2009, Bloomberg News)
On a cloudless December day in the Nevada desert, workers in white hard hats descend into a 30- foot-wide shaft next to Lake Mead.
As they’ve been doing since June, they’ll blast and dig straight down into the limestone surrounding the reservoir that supplies 90 percent of Las Vegas’s water. In September, [...]
(Feb. 25, 2009, CleanTech)
Leaders at the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco today said the days of cheap water are over.
The developing world is still struggling to provide usable water to its residents, while water shortages in the developed world have put a new focus on expensive technologies.
“Water has never been priced properly, but [...]
(Feb. 20, 2009, WaterDrop)
According to Maude Barlow, the senior water advisor on water to the president of the United Nations General Assembly, Australia, Europe, India, China and Africa’s lakes are quickly being replaced by deserts. She also states that water systems in North and Central America are continuously being degraded to the point of collapse.
Barlow [...]
(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 [...]
(Feb. 11, 2009, Ben Block, WorldWatch)
In regions where pumping and distributing water requires significant electricity use, policies that lead to reduced water consumption could address climate change more efficiently than requiring businesses and households to use less energy, according to water expert Peter Gleick.
“Some of the cheapest greenhouse gas emission reductions available seem to be [...]
(Jan. 15, 2009, Stan Cox, AlterNet)
A thousand people a day move to Florida, but with development gone wild, the state’s natural systems have passed the brink of sustainability.
The monumental stone signs and freshly paved entry road appear to lead to nothing but wide-open, semitropical countryside. But a second look reveals a skyline of sorts [...]
(Dec 7., 2008, Bloomberg)
Australia, trying to recover from its worst drought on record, will spend A$1 billion ($647 million) on large-scale infrastructure to help supply more water to towns and cities.
The money will be used to build desalination plants and recycling and storm water harvesting infrastructure in urban areas with more than 50,000 people…
(Nov. 19, 2008, Laguna Journal)
The report predicts, within just two decades the already sensitive areas from China to Africa will have to deal with more droughts, food shortages and scarcity of fresh water.
“The changes in sea level, the changes in temperature, the impact on agriculture, the impact on water availability, [...]
(Nov. 18, 2008, Associated Press)
Limited water and agricultural land could “add a kind of competition to the international system that we haven’t seen for a very long time,” Fingar said. Water “will have to be on the agenda” of political leaders.
Water shortages are being declared all across North America, such as in San Diego, CA today, Phippsburg, CO, Princeton, TX, Seabrook NH, Birmingham, AL by 2025, even in Stephensville, Canada, and water restrictions (voluntary and involuntary) are being put into place, such as in San Bernardino, CA, Kilgore, TX, Rocky Mount, VA, Greenville, SC, and [...]
