Global Water Wire
Q&A: SustainAbility Survey Reveals Clean Water Shortages As Most Urgent Issue
For 15 years SustainAbility and GlobeScan have polled global thought leaders about the planet's greatest sustainability challenges. The collaborating firms also release three "pulse" surveys based on three critical sustainability issues that most concern companies and their shareholders. In 2009, the international poll determined that clean water shortages top the ...
Coming Era of Water Scarcity Will Prompt Global Industrial Transformation, According to Survey of International Experts
Acute water shortages will change strategy, business operations; depletion of global water resources is more rapid, severe, and complex than anticipated.
Photo © 2009 Brent Stirton/Reportage by Getty Images for Circle of Blue.
By Keith Schneider
Circle of Blue
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Population growth, urban development, farm production, and climate change is increasing competition ...
Peter Gleick: Climate-change Deniers Versus the Scientific Societies of the World — Who Should we Listen to?
My last post said that climate-change deniers have never produced an alternative scientific theory that adequately explains the compelling evidence of climate change from around the world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dr. Peter Gleick is president of the Pacific Institute, an internationally recognized water expert and a MacArthur Fellow.
Read his full bio...
Where should ...
Peter Gleick: The Best Argument Against Global Warming
Climate deniers have yet to produce an alternative, scientific argument that come close to explaining the evidence around the world that the climate is changing. Here's how science works.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dr. Peter Gleick is president of the Pacific Institute, an internationally recognized water expert and a MacArthur Fellow.
Read his full ...
Senate Committee to Vote on Clean Drinking Water Bill
The bill emphasizes the importance of water and sanitation in U.S. foreign aid.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote at its next business meeting on a bill to provide safe drinking water to 100 million people, according to a committee staff member.
The meeting is tentatively scheduled for March 23, ...
Supreme Court To Take A Second Look at Michigan’s Asian Carp Injunction
The high court originally rejected a request to order Chicago-area locks closed to keep the invasive fish out of the Great Lakes.
Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue
Great Lakes’ politicians gathered in Michigan last month to discuss the severity of the Asian carp threat in the area. Michigan Attorney General ...
Drought in South China is Worst in Decades
Twenty million people, 16 million acres of farmland affected. Costs estimated over $1 billion.
Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue
Parts of southern China are being ravaged by a severe three-season drought. Millions of people lack adequate water supplies, and millions of acres of cropland are too dry to ...
Taking the Pulse of Global Freshwater Issues
What’s happening and what will happen in the water world in 2010. A look ahead as citizens, companies and nonprofits jockey for position.
Photo © Brent Stirton/Reportage for Getty Images/Circle of Blue
SALTON SEA, CALIFORNIA, AUGUST 2009: This slowly drying sea recedes as farmers save water, and and runoff levels drop. By ...
Q&A: How General Electric is Tackling the Water Crisis
Circle of Blue interviews General Electric Water’s Director of marketing Jeff Fulgham.
By Andrew Maddocks
Circle of Blue
Director of marketing for General Electric Water Jeff Fulgham is at the forefront of the multi-billion dollar company’s conservation plans. Fulgham has to understand the water-energy nexus, as well as the ongoing water rights ...
Midwestern Cities Sue Chemical Company for Polluting Water Supply
New research has found that atrazine, a chemical used in pesticides, causes infertility and sex changes in frogs.
A group of Midwestern communities and water districts has filed a federal lawsuit against Swiss corporation Syngenta AG and its American subsidiary, to force the company to pay for removing the chemical atrazine ...
