Archive for the ‘Global Water Issues’ Category

• 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

• The Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

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

  December 2009 last issue features articles on topics such as Industry perspective on Water use efficiency, Energy and water programs and education. For current and past issues, LINK: Journal of CWR&E

• Global Politician: Emerging water wars by Sam Vaknin

  Date: 2009.12.30 | Category: Global Water Issues | Response: 0

  Global Politician is an independent journal of politics and world affairs. It has grown rapidly in recent months, and now gets over 100,000 unique visitors a month. A unique article worth reading, was published on the Emerging Water Wars LINK: Global issues

• About WaterTech

  Date: 2009.12.29 | Category: Events and Conventions, Global Water Issues | Response: 0

  The WaterTech 2010 conference, which combines two  highly successful annual events, WaterTech and WastewaterTech, will overlap due to the increasing and growing importance of wastewater topics in the Middle East. The conference will address key water resource and water demand management issues in the Middle East, including an in-depth look at wastewater treatment and reuse which is now a key priority for regional governments. This third annual gathering will bring together experts from water authorities, municipalities, regulators and industry to discuss solutions to critical water and wastewater problems. LINK: WaterTECH

• Dr. Kathleen Miller on climate change and water research

  Date: 2009.12.29 | Category: Domestic Water Conservation, Global Water Issues | Response: 0

  Discussing how in recent years there has been growing evidence that the earth’s increasingly warm climate in 21st century. This raises the essential question: What impacts will global warming have on the environment and human activities? LINK: Dr. Kathleen Miller

• Science Daily Article: how plants respond to water shortage

  Date: 2009.12.28 | Category: Academic, Global Water Issues | Response: 0

  According to researchers in an experiment, plants that were genetically engineered had stronger resistance to drought. The article, taken from Science Daily and published in Nature, features the discovery of a protein called PYR1 which could open up a whole new approach to increasing crops’ resistance to water shortages. LINK:Water Conservation News

• CBC’s radio special series of water for profit

  Date: 2009.12.27 | Category: Global Water Issues | Response: 0

  According to Fortune magazine, water is ….”One of the world’s great business opportunities. It promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th.” CBC has taken a look at the world’s top water corporations. Is the world becoming more vulnerable to these high-powered corporate giants? LINK: Water for Profit CBC Water

• The Gift Of Clean Water

  Date: 2009.12.20 | Category: Global Water Issues | Response: 0

  Project Awesome – This is a video of some amazing work being done by “Save The Children-U.S.A.”   To Donate, follow links at end of video….

  Source: www.youtube.com

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