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Matt Podbury

Where we get our fresh water - Christiana Z. Peppard - YouTube - 1 views

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    Fresh water accounts for only 2.5% of Earth's water, yet it is vital for human civilization. What are our sources of fresh water? In the first of a two part series on fresh water, Christiana Z. Peppard breaks the numbers down and discusses who is using it and to what ends.
Kathleen Noreisch

Transparency: Drinking Water | GOOD - 1 views

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    It's the source of life but it's also the cause of a lot of unnecessary death. In places where clean water isn't available, water-related diseases like cholera cause massive diarrhea, dehydration, and thousands of deaths each day. Affordable water-treatment solutions exist.
Kathleen Noreisch

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | India's water use 'unsustainable' - 0 views

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    Parts of India are on track for severe water shortages, according to results from Nasa's gravity satellites. The Grace mission discovered that in the country's north-west - including Delhi - the water table is falling by about 4cm (1.6 inches) per year. Writing in the journal Nature, they say rainfall has not changed, and water use is too high, mainly for farming.
Ian Gabrielson

The Mekong | The Economist - 1 views

  • The Mekong region is Asia’s rice bowl: in 20
  • support the world’s biggest inland fishery, accounting for a quarter of the global freshwater catch, feeding tens
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  • 14 lower Mekong countries (Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam) produced more than 100m tonnes of rice, around 15% of the world’s total.
  • The region’s fertile soil depends on nutrient-rich sediment that the Mekong carries downriver, mainly during the rainy season from June to October;
  • The region boasts remarkable biodiversity; only the vast basins of the Congo and the Amazon compare to or surpass it
  • here are more than 20,000 types of plant and nearly 2,500 animal species; freshwater dolphins and giant catfish; spiders 30 centimetres across and, in a limestone cavern in Thailand, a day-glo pink, cyanide-secreting millipede
  • he human diversity is striking, too: Tibetan monks pray; Burmese traders buy and sell; Cambodian fishermen cast nets; Thai farmers reap; Vietnamese markets float. The history is as rich as the soil. The Bud
  • a smiled while resting at the northern Lao city of Luang Prabang. Angkor Wat on the Mekong-fed Tonle Sap lake was among the biggest cities of the preindustrial world. The Khmer empire that built it dominated South-East Asia for longer than there have been Europeans in the Americas.
  • s its currents are rechannelled down copper conduits to power far-off cities the river itself will be trapped behind a series of concrete walls. Its fisheries, agriculture and biodiversity will suffer; the lives lived on its banks will be reshaped with scant regard for the feelings of those who lead them
  • t least 86,000 have been built over the past six decades, providing 282 gigawatts (GW) of installed hydroelectric capacity by 2014
  • y 2020 it wants an astonishing 350GW of installed hydropower capacity; in the European Union that would be enough to meet about three-quarters of total electricity needs. The dam at Wunonglong, about 300 metres long and more than 100 metres high, will provide a smidgen less than one of those extra gigawatts. The other 13 are expected to add 15.1GW mor
  • Downriver countries intend to build another 11 large dams on the Mekong, with dozens more planned for its tributaries
  • he dams will change the quality of the water in the river and the rate at which it flows. Some of this change could be for the better. Dams can prevent flooding by regulating the flow of water downstream. But some Mekong riverbank agriculture would not welcome too steady a flow
  • Increasing water in the dry season would shrink riverbeds, leaving less space for crops—millions of Mekong-basin dwellers grow vegetables on riverbanks. Reducing water in the rainy season produces smaller floodplains with less sediment deposited in them, impoverishing the soil.
  • According to International Rivers, an environmental NGO, the full cascade of dams planned for the Lancang would trap nearly all of the sediment coming from China, cutting the water’s sediment load in half.
  • And the dams lower down could worsen the problem; the clear, “hungry” water that flows from them in spates will carry away existing sediment in riverbanks and riverbeds. Some of that will be deposited farther still downstream; some will wash uselessly out t
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    Excellent set of articles about the situation in the Mekong
Ian Gabrielson

Water: All dried up | The Economist - 2 views

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    "All dried up Northern China is running out of water, but the government's remedies are potentially disastrous"
Richard Allaway

Happy World Water Day! 22 Key Stories for Understanding Water Issues : TreeHugger - 1 views

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    22 Key Stories for Understanding Water Issues
graham maltby

Snowy Flow Response Monitoring and Modelling program - NSW Office of Water - 0 views

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    he Snowy Mountains Scheme has affected the ecology of Snowy Mountain rivers and streams. The Snowy Water Inquiry identified the need to increase flows to the Snowy River below Jindabyne and the Snowy montane rivers.
Matt Podbury

Much Of US South Experiencing Extreme Drought - Let The Water Wars Begin : TreeHugger - 0 views

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    Competing demands for water - Water Wars, USA
Kathleen Noreisch

Hippo Rollers | GOOD - 0 views

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    In rural Africa, women spend 26% of their time fetching water, often walking for miles with heavy buckets balanced on their heads. That's time that could be spent going to school, working outside the home, or teaching their children. The Hippo Water Roller eases the burden by allowing women to transport five times as much water with much less physical effort. In our latest LOOK video, we examine the impact of the rollers on one village in South Africa. LEARN MORE hipporoller.org
Kathleen Noreisch

The Water's Edge | GOOD - 6 views

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    Through two wars and a half-century of suspicion and resentment, the Indus Waters Treaty has governed the sharing of a strategic river between the bitter nuclear rivals eager to control and to profit from it. But will India and Pakistan's treaty survive the emerging water crisis?
Matt Podbury

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/327371/report-warns-that-water-... - 1 views

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    Global Water Security - Conflict and Management
Matt Podbury

Drinking water crisis: A California town fights back | Greenspace | Los Angeles Times - 2 views

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    Drinking water pollution by pesticides in California
Matt Podbury

Water Crisis Looms in South Africa - NatGeo News Watch - 1 views

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    Water Crisis Looms in South Africa
Kathleen Noreisch

GOOD » Transparency: How Much Water Do You Use?» - 0 views

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    How Much Water Do You Use? Diagram showing how many gallons of direct and virtual water are used for daily activities.
Richard Allaway

BBC NEWS | Americas | The fight for water in North America - 0 views

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    Since 2000, the Colorado River - which provides water for seven US states in the region - has carried less water than at any time in recorded history.
Richard Allaway

Organic Nation.tv - Blog - New Video: Does America Have a Water Crisis? - 1 views

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    New Video: Does America Have a Water Crisis? 
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