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• Peter Gleick: What the Frack? Poisoning our Water in the Name of Energy Profits

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 562
  Image courtesy US Geological Survey Produced water brine pit in Oklahoma oil and gas field from hyrdaulic facturing, or fracking. Here is your word for the day: Fracking or fraccing. [No, fellow Battlestar Galactica fans, this is a different use of the word "frack," although for some, the sentiment is the same.] ...
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• Af-Pak developments destabilising South Asia: Antony

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) Developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan have thrust South Asia into sub-conventional conflict and are destabilising the region, Defence minister A.K. Antony said Monday.“Various developments over the last few months in and around our neighbourhood, particularly in Pakistan and Afghanistan, ...
  6 days ago

• AFPAK is epicentre of terrorism: Antony

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI): Defence Minister AK Antony has said that Pakistan and Afghanistan have emerged as the epicentre of terrorism across the world. Delivering the keynote address at an international seminar on ‘Changing Nature of Conflict: Trends and Responses’, Antony said there has been an outbreak of ...
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• China: A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 598
  Too many and too few people…too much and too little money…a history so epic many would rather forget it and a future so uncertain everyone is willing to gamble on it. One sometimes gets the feeling that China’s economy is beyond control; a behemoth, the likes of which the world has never seen, hurtling forward ...
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• Television Synopsis: Bigg Boss Season 3 -Synopsis EP 34

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Aasman Se Gira, Bigg Boss mein atka! It’s the final day of the task and the housemates are eagerly waiting to finish the task. Looks like the housemates have actually realized that water is indeed their lifeline -quite of few of them haven’t taken their bath for past couple of days, using fewer vessels [...]
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• Dry Taps In Harare Stop Government Business As Cholera Beckons

  
  Denford Magora's Latest Zimbabwe News Blog — Authority: 140
  Residents line up at one of the boreholes dug by aid agencies in the suburbs of Harare. The water shortage has now reached critical levels, with practically the whole city having dried up, except in the city centre, where the Supreme Court had to close down last week for lack of water. It has now been restored, but ...
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• Nuclear Fallout: Nevada Takes Hard Look at Contaminated Groundwater From Historic Testing Grounds

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 562
  The Yucca Flat area of the Nevada Test Site is scarred with subsidence craters from underground nuclear testing. View larger image. Decades of nuclear weapons testing has contaminated an estimated 1.6 trillion gallons of groundwater in the Nevada desert, a region where clean water is scarce and getting scarcer. ...
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• The World Water Crisis

  
  Going Green Power Blog — Authority: 133
  Berkey Filter Review Water is a unique and fascinating substance! Both scientists and civilians are aware that life cannot continue without liquid water. People are able to live weeks without food but merely days without water. Recent tests on the moon were designed to detect any presence of water, for eventual ...
  2 weeks ago

• Heart of Dryness: Water, Climate and Energy

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 562
  Photo courtesy of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The Hoover Dam embodies historic intersections of energy and water. How will climate change alter this relationship? By James G. Workman Special to Circle of Blue Copyright 2009 Walker & Company, Excerpt from Heart of Dryness Circle of Blue presents ...
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• J. Oster, I. P. Montañe, W. D. Sharp & K. M. Cooper, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., Late Pleistocene California droughts during deglaciation and Arctic warming

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 438
  Earth and Planetary Science Letters , (2009) in press; DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.10.003 Late Pleistocene California droughts during deglaciation and Arctic warming Jessica Oster , Isabel P. Montañe ( Geology Department, University of California, Davis, CA, U.S.A. ), Warren D. Sharp ( Berkeley ...
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• Pak pushing WB to appoint neutral expert over Kishanganga dam dispute with India

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Islamabad, Nov.8 (ANI): Pakistan is pushing the World Bank (WB) to appoint a neutral expert instead of going to the Court of Arbitration on the Kishanganga Hydropower project issue.“We are examining the possibility of invoking the option of a neutral expert instead of court of arbitration,” a Foreign Office ...
  3 weeks ago

• New dam for Iraq’s oil-rich Kerkuk

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 482
  New dam for Iraq’s oil-rich Kerkuk  Azzaman, November 6, 2009  The oil-rich city of Kirkuk is going to have a new dam with a storage capacity of 39 million cubic meters of water.  Work on the dam has just started. It was inaugurated this week by Water Resources Minister Abdullatif Rasheed.  “The target ...
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• Zimababwe: water wars hit rural Zimbabwe

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 125
  When water experts warned at the turn of the millennium that soon wars will be fought not over oil anymore but over water, little did Zimbabweans know that they would be some of the first people affected by this dire prediction. There is increasing competition for water due to a combination of numerous environmental ...
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• The atlas of water (2nd ed.)

  
  WASH Resources — Authority: 412
  Black, Maggie and King, Jannet (2009). The atlas of water . (2nd ed.). London, UK, Earthscan. 128 p. ISBN 9781844078271 Price: £12.99 Buy online The new edition of the atlas shows water distribution worldwide, and reflects the latest thinking and emerging issues. With updated data throughout, the atlas covers a ...
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• Are We Running Out of Safe Water?

  
  Mindzle - Living Green Smart - Sustainable Living Articles — Authority: 131
  Berkey Filter Review Water is a life giving substance! Both scientists and civilians are aware that life cannot continue without liquid water. People are able to live weeks without food but merely days without water. Recent moon explosions were planned for the purpose of, hopefully, detecting the presence of water ...
  3 weeks ago

• India, Mumbai: water cuts are on, protests against water shortage

  
  WASH news Asia & Pacific — Authority: 120
  Mumbai will have to live with steep water cuts until at least 15 July 2010. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has imposed a 15% cut in water supply for residential consumers, and a 30% cut for commercial establishments like hotels and malls. Normally, Mumbai gets 3,420 million litres a day (mld) of water ...
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• Population explosion and over usage of ground water dry out Yemen

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 438
  Thirsty Plant Dries Out Yemen Across Yemen, the underground water sources are running out, a crisis that could prove deadlier than the resurgence of Al Qaeda here. At the root of the water crisis is the quadrupling of the population in the last 50 years. (Bryan Denton for The New York Times) ...
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• Critical Water Shortages - Practical Solutions to Save Both Water and Money

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 143
  By Brent Beecham As of 9:15am, October 14, 2009, Lake Lanier has returned to full pool for the first time since October 2005. The lake had reached the 1050.97 foot level on December 8, 2008 and many declared Atlanta’s primary source of water dead. It has risen over 19 feet since then. Most Atlantans are probably ...
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• China, Guiyang: ADB to help combat water shortages in capital of Guizhou province

  
  WASH news Asia & Pacific — Authority: 120
  The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is helping China enact wide-ranging, integrated measures in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province, one of the poor western provinces in PRC, to tackle growing water shortages caused by rapid growth and urbanization. ADB has approved a US$ 150 million loan for the Guiyang ...
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• Jammu and Kashmir to introduce water conservation law

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Binoo JoshiJammu, Oct 27 (IANS) The Kashmir valley needs 110 million gallons of water a day but gets only 40 million now. Alarmed by the disastrous effects of climate change such as receding glaciers and drying streams, the Jammu and Kashmir government will bring a law to force water conservation.A bill will be ...
  4 weeks ago

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