Special water report by Nature magazine

Date: 2009.11.16 | Category: Academic, Global Water Issues | Tags: desalination,energy,purification,sanitation,shortages,water

Earlier this year, Nature magazine website presented a special collection of water articles and features with the title, “Water: Under Pressure.” Highlights in the series include:

• An assessment of how much water is actually usable or available on our planet.
• Editorial about water shortages and their threat on humanity
• Special report on the potential of desalination
• Series of new features on sanitation, impact on food crops and crop failures and water purification.
• New feature article on the opposition to a new waterway project in Korea.
• Podcast interview about water purification technologies
• Research review on science and technology: for ways to integrate water and energy planning
• Essay on the theory of liquid water structure
• Reviews on film about water policy and the switch from State-run to privatization and of an art exhibition on water works and diffusing ink.

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 Link: Special Water Issue by Nature magazine