Britain's nuclear strategy threatens destruction of Kalahari The Observer | The hidden cost of Britain's new generation of could be the destruction of the Kalahari desert in and millions of tonnes of extra greenhouse gas emissions a year, the Observer has discovered.= | The desert, with its towering sand dunes and spectacular lunar-like landscapes, is at the centre of an ...
Thirsty Plant Dries Out Yemen The New York Times | JAHILIYA, Yemen - More than half of this country's scarce water is used to feed an addiction. | Even as drought kills off Yemen's crops, farmers in villages like this one are turning increasingly to a thirsty plant called qat, the leaves of which are chewed every day by most Yemeni men (and some w...
Water wars show we should all work together The Times | So far there have been very few violent international conflicts over water - the record between states is good. But this may change and two areas are already causes for concern. ...
Jordan faces up to water crisis BBC News | The man in charge of Jordan's fast depleting water resources says Jordanians don't have much of a choice. | "We have no surface water left, no rivers, no lakes - nothing wha...
Aquatech Assigns Local Marcellus Shale Point Person redOrbit Posted on: Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 06:35 CST | CANONSBURG, Pa., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Chuck Kozora, Regional Business Development Manager, has been appointed the key point contact role within Aquatech for topics relating to the treatment of the ...
Forests in the desert: the answer to climate change? The Guardian | Climate change could be cancelled out in a staggeringly ambitious plan to plant the Sahara desert and Australian outback with trees | One day, this could all be trees … a recent scientific paper claims that turning deserts into forests is the bes...
BMC forms squad to check water waste in Government offices DNA India | Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will keep a tab on Government offices to ensure water is not wasted. "We have decided to form a squad of junior engineers who will visit government offices once in 15 days to check how much water...
SA 'sitting on a time bomb' Independent online | With Durban running the risk of water restrictions, Water Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica says it is "totally unacceptable" that between 35 and 40 percent of piped water in big cities is being lost to theft or leaky pipes. | She told a provincial ...
Maldives announces windfarm plan to provide 40% of island's electricity The Guardian | Windfarm would provide the island state with the largest percentage of renewable electricity of any country in the world | The Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed stands in the sea off Kurumba to show the threat the islands face. Photograph: Chiara ...
Thirsty Plant Dries Out Yemen The New York Times | JAHILIYA, Yemen - More than half of this country's scarce water is used to feed an addiction. | Even as drought kills off Yemen's crops, farmers in villages like this one are turning increasingly to a thirsty plant called qat, the leaves of which a...
China's Three Gorges Dam comes of age Asia Times | By Antoaneta Bezlova | BEIJING - Fifteen years after dynamite blasts first shattered the peace of China's breathtaking Three Gorges, the Three Gorges Dam - the pride of China's engineering progress - is nearing completion. But the cannonade of criticism bombarding the world's largest and costliest dam in history is far from over. | In a matter of...
Jairam ticks off Delhi Govt. over Yamuna pollution The Hindu | Special Correspondent | 'Waste flows untreated due to the low utilisation of the treatment plants' | Some Plain Talk: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh (right) with Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit during the release of "Climate Change Agenda for Delhi 2009-2012" on Thursday. | NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for E...
