Category Archives: Climate Change

Friday Swim, links to 5 water articles from the week of August 14th.

Posted on September 14, 2012 by

Former world leaders sound alarm on global water crisis By: The Canadian Press A group of former world leaders discussed the impending global water crisis. It details a report from the InterAction Council on how the growing population will affect … Continue reading →

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Friday Swim, links to 6 interesting water articles from the week of August 17th.

Posted on August 17, 2012 by

Bill Gates looks to new toilets to improve world sanitation BBC This article describes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s competition to design new toilets. The winning design was from a team from California Institute of Technology. Don’t Waste The … Continue reading →

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Friday Swim, links to 5 interesting water articles from the week of August 10th.

Posted on August 10, 2012 by

Human Right to Water and Sanitation Remains a Political Mirage By: Thalif Deen Even though the UN passed a resolution 2 years ago on the human right to water and sanitation it still remains to be fully implemented. As this … Continue reading →

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How can Star Wars like technology save lives on earth?

Posted on August 9, 2012 by

Owen Lars: “What I really need is a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators.” C-3PO: “Vaporators? Sir, my first job was programming binary loadlifters—very similar to your vaporators in most respects.“ Who can forget Star Wars: Episode … Continue reading →

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The United Nations Role in Water Part 4; approaches to environment and adaptation in water

Posted on August 6, 2012 by

“About one third of the world’s population lives in countries with moderate to high water stress with disproportionately high impacts on the poor.” UNEP The United Nations plays a large role in water as it applies to both the environment … Continue reading →

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Dealing with droughts; are dams the answer?

Posted on July 24, 2012 by

On June 5, 2012 a group of major international dam NGOs approved a global declaration entitled Water Storage for Sustainable Development. This declaration calls for more dams to increase storage in order to enable development and mitigate harm caused by … Continue reading →

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Drought in the US, not made in China

Posted on July 17, 2012 by

The United States is facing a major crisis which its water allocation system may not be able to handle. The largest recorded disaster area in United States history is currently ravaging the US in the form of a drought across the … Continue reading →

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