Posts Tagged ‘shortages’

• Special water report by Nature magazine

  Date: 2009.11.16 | Category: Academic, Global Water Issues | Response: 0

  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.

   Please note that some material is accessible only to subscribers.

   Link: Special Water Issue by Nature magazine