LeakBird

(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 [...]

(Jan. 29, 2009, The Washington Post)
A plan announced this week by Loudoun Water to use stone quarries to store untreated Potomac River water came after the utility spent years looking at how it could supply enough water to the eastern part of the county in the coming decades.
Under the proposal, which needs approval from regulators, [...]