Archive for the ‘Global Water Issues’ Category

• Why Conserve? some good reasons you should

  Date: 2010.01.02 | Category: Domestic Water Conservation, Global Water Issues | Response: 0

  Water is in short supply for many cities, farms and businesses, and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

  Drought conditions and environmental problems are reducing water deliveries to key regions of  the world. These regions will continue to see shortages even when normal rainfall returns.

  Jobs are being lost in the hardest-hit areas, and growers are leaving thousands of acres unplanted and cutting back production of avocadoes, tomatoes, melons and other crops.

  The world’s population continues to grow

  Climate change is ushering in new uncertainties for our water system, and longer periods of drought are likely in the coming decades.

  These challenges mean we can no longer take a reliable water supply for granted. Global and local water managers are working now on long-term solutions, but in the meantime, there is an immediate need for everyone to reduce their water use.

  Conservation is one of the key strategies of a comprehensive solution to the world’s water challenges – and it’s something we can all do today!!

• Book Review: Our World of Water by Frances Lincoln

  Date: 2010.01.02 | Category: Global Water Issues, Youth Water Education | Response: 0

  Wherever we live in the world – whether our country is rich or poor – water is vital to our survival. This book follows the daily lives of six children from Peru, Mauritania, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Tajikistan and California and explores what water means to them. LINK: Our world of water

• About Global Water Challenge

  Date: 2010.01.02 | Category: Global Water Issues, Nonprofit Organization | Response: 0

  Global Water Challenge (GWC) is a coalition of 24 leading organizations creating a global movement of transformational change around water and sanitation. GWC focuses on collaborative learning, connecting leaders, and investing in sustainable, scalable and replicable projects. Our goal is universal access to clean water and safe sanitation.  GWC believes that water challenges have solutions. LINK: GWC

• UNESCO Water Portal

  Date: 2010.01.01 | Category: Global Water Issues | Response: 0

  The UNESCO Water Portal provides a single interactive access point to information on major water events worldwide.  You can browse through pre-established categories or search using keywords. LINK: UNESCO

• About H20 project

  Date: 2010.01.01 | Category: Global Water Issues, World Water Conservation | Response: 0

  LINK: H20 project

  The H2O project is building an interlocking collection of communities based on the free creation and exchange of ideas.

• World Water Day this year Monday March 22, 2010

  Date: 2010.01.01 | Category: Events and Conventions, Global Water Issues | Response: 0

  events taking place across the globe in celebration of World Water Day 2010. Visit the site for more information. You can even plan your own event in Celebration of World Water Day. LINK: WWday

• Upcoming Worldwide water conferences

  Date: 2010.01.01 | Category: Events and Conventions, Global Water Issues | Response: 0

   

  Here is an event list of upcoming water conferences in water management and water related fields.

  LINK: Water Conferences

• World Economic Water Initiative at a Glance

  Date: 2010.01.01 | Category: Global Water Issues | Response: 0

  World Economic Forum Water Initiative
  Managing Our Future Water Needs for Agriculture, Industry, Human Health and the Environment

  Download the full report, Water initiative at a glance. LINK: World Economic Water initiative       

• Our Water == Our World

  Date: 2010.01.01 | Category: Global Water Issues, HealthTips, HomeTips, Local Water Issues | Response: 0

  This website is helpful to consumers in managing home and garden pests in a way that helps protect OUR WATER. Among other things, this site offers an assorted fact sheets on specific pests and methods to manage them without using hazardous materials, a pocket guide to managing 10 common pests, information on where to buysafer alternatives to pesticides, including fungicides and herbicides. and an alphabetized list of suggestged products that are considered safer alternatives to more conventional pesticides.  LINK: our water our world

  Also the site that allows you to ask a specific question and receive a personal reply, from The expert!

• Video: Dr. Gleick reporting on Peak Water

  Date: 2009.12.31 | Category: Global Water Issues | Response: 0

  In this video, Dr. Gleick talks about the concept of peak water and the issues surrounding the speed at which we are depleting our groundwater.

  LINK: Peter Gleick