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This Article highlights the problem of water scarcity in war-torn Iraq. The Scarcity of Water has caused the government to make it a priority in solving this problem along with UNESCO and the EU. Any story that involves Iraqi politicians cooperating to solve an issue must be a good sign weither they accomplish it or not. This Scarcity is a central and unifying issue and ironically may produce positive effects.

Nabil, I find this interesting since it associates scarcity with water. I recently read an article that talked about the implications of bottled water being treated as a luxury good in developed nations (branded water even!). And in your article water is being discussed as a scarce resource. Clearly, it would make more moral sense for less water to be sold as a luxury and more distributed to areas where it's scarce, but the profit motive steers the practice in another direction altogether!

Nabil, I also find this particularly interesting because I've always wondered about whether or not water availability will decrease as time progresses and the amount of human beings in the planet increases. I have always thought of water as being incredibly cheap if not completely free (go to a river and sip some water), and this makes it hard for me to think of water as being something that will be depleted any time soon.

Even though water is not a scarce resource, it is becoming scarce in various regions. These regions tend to be highly populated areas such as countries in Europe including Spain and France. In contrast, areas such as iceland, who have everlasting water, do not have a problem of scarcity because of there low population.

Many people believe water scarcity is a problem mainly related to areas such as Africa, Arab Saudi...etc However this problem is affecting Europe as well. Regions such as Spain or France, during summer suffer from lots of fire. This produces lands to become inert in other words, the land becomes unprodutive. This is a problem, but at the same time, the lack of water (rain) is great. This produces rivers, lakes...etc to decrease the amount of water. Finbally all these problems are causing some countries to start having scarce water problems.

its very important to take into consideration that water is scares resource as in many areas such as in mexico people suffer from fresh water shortages, here is a second website that BBc talks about water crises and in addition we should look at mexico water crises as they overexegurate in using water for iriigation many palces in cities are lacking water. its very interesting read please and become more green to save our planet :D http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/1497-water-crisis-availability-of-water-in-mexico

This article discusses the scarcity of fresh water as the population grows and the availability of fresh water decreases. This article focuses on the scarcity of our land resources as the population grows since everyone wants water and what Suez Environment is doing to slow down the process. This article relates to the topic of infinite wants that we discussed and how people will always want water.

A study made by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and HSBC 's Climate Change Center of Excellence in Southeast Asia found out that the largest thermal and hydroelectric powerplants were located in areas greatly suffering from water scarcity. This poses a major problem since these power plants heavily rely on water.

This article talks about a market failure related with the Tragedy of the Commons that took place a couple years ago here, in Spain, when the water supplies fell drastically with one of the most severed droughts of our history. The over-use of the water as a common contributed to this problem.

This article is about a discovery of water on moon and how it could be used by astronauts. in one word is a great discovery in addition in this article is also said how this water discovered was discovered

This article talks about creating a water reservoir in Hindhead area. ( A small village in England). About 12,500 customers from different areas will benefit from this scheme. Creating of the scheme will cost £2m and it will be done by late November

I choose this article because I saw it is closely related with the "commons". In this case the common is one of the mains; water. So the case is about how the overexploitation of water can be, and it is, damaging. At this particular case it talks about how the arsenic pollution due to the overexploitation of groundwater is generating serious health risks for Vietnamese population.

The tragic landslides in Brazil highlight the importance of public goods. Although, it certainly was a natural disaster the government has been criticised for not alerting people to the dangers. It was well known that this mountain in this area has a lot of rocky ground, which is impervious to water. Furthermore, rapid population growth causing the building of new housing did not improve the situation. The government failed to provide basic public goods, such as monitored flood control, efficient public drainage. "The Science and Technology Minister, Aloizio Mercadante, said five million people lived in some 800 areas considered at risk of mudslides and floods. He said it would take at least four years for a nationwide alert system to be in place."

More than 13,000 people have lost or abandoned their homes because of the disaster, government has already responded to this disaster by sending extra troops, ambulances , helicopters, first aid, food, water etc. this expenditure will be covered by tax payers money, if disaster was bigger i think government wouldn't have been able to help their people, the vivid example was the earthquake in Haiti,

This article is about how water scarcity is affecting not only our economy but also how governments manage it.