Talk about the mother of all water projects.

My colleagues Aaron Jaffe and Keith Schneider report for Circle of Blue that in 2014 some 9.6 billion cubic meters of water a year (2.5 trillion gallons) will pour through the immense tunnels under construction in Henan Province in...

Water scarcity, rapid economic growth, and soaring energy demand are forming a tightening noose that could choke off China's modernization.

Writes my colleague Keith Schneider in the first installment of the new report, Choke Point: China, from Circle of Blue:

Underlying China's...

Without water as part of the equation, there can be no long-term solution to climate change. Keith Schneider frames the Cancun climate talks for Circle of Blue.

On November 29, representatives from 190 countries will be in Cancun, Mexico, for the 16^th Conference of the Parties under...

Without sharp changes in investment and direction, the current U.S. strategy to produce sufficient energy -- including energy generated from clean sources -- will lead to severe water shortages and cause potentially major damage to the country's economy, environment and quality of life, according to new reporting at

Climate progress? Maybe, just maybe a step forward.

Colleague Keith Schneider, who covered the UNFCCC climate talks last week in Tianjin, China, spotted silver linings in the clouds, even some blue skies above. "In the artful language of global negotiations that means negotiators here managed to push ahead a bit...

We have a new national narrative of resource urgency unfolding before our eyes -- the impending collision between water and energy. None of the big energy producers or large water use sectors will be left untouched. We need energy to move water, we need huge amounts of water to make...

Population growth, urban development, farm production, and climate change are increasing competition for fresh water and creating shortages so acute that virtually every industry in the world anticipates sweeping transformation over the next decade in strategic planning, production practices, and business models.

That's the conclusion published here today of...

Four years ago, standing outside her mud-brick home in San Marcos Tlacoyalco, Mexico, I met Francisca Rosas Valencia. We were interviewing her about her country's water crisis and how she was helping her struggling community survive a severe drought.

We had one more question. We had heard her describe in...

Barcelona was supposed to bring hints of what's to come in December at the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen. A world seeking sanity.

Of course the stories would be rich, the perplexities deep. Keith Schneider, our colleague and

Desalination is held in great promise for a thirsty world where more than a billion people don't have adequate access to clean water and where California, Georgia and the American Southwest face revolving water-supply emergencies. As we've reported before at Circle of Blue, the...

By J. Carl Ganter from Circle of Blue

NEW YORK, September 28, 2009 — Ever so steadily the basic factors that make up the global freshwater crisis — pollution, disease, scarcity, and access — are making their way to the top of the list of international priorities. More...

Colleague Peter Gleick pens sage words on water, policy and science, and few have similarly sharp eyes that spot anomalies in data, mal- or misfeasance in reporting or the ability to see through the muck and call out things that are just plain wrong.

Gleick, whose commentary we feature at...

As the world turns its eyes toward Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Conference in December and how to engage the public on these massively complex issues of planetary survival, it might look to water as a universal solvent. According...

"With all the power of 21st century collaboration technology, nothing to date has tamed the massive amounts of disparate water information locked away in diverse database systems," reports Aubrey Parker, our colleague at Circle of Blue in her article, "Google Brings Water Data to Life."

Google's new

Did you know that Sun and Google headquarters may be below sea level?

California published today its comprehensive risk assessment of coastline vulnerabilities to rising sea levels caused by climate change. It paints a tough future that will require extensive adaptation, from Los Angeles to Silicon Valley. The state is...

Sometimes a story is just so big it needs superlatives. A story as big as a continent.

Take Australia's water, what's left of it.

"Not since the American Dust Bowl of the early 20th century has an industrialized nation sustained more damage from drought and water scarcity in its prime...

As the world launches stimulus plans and energy initiatives, there's a new way to save, as it turns out, lots of oil: cut back on bottled water.

In the first peer-reviewed study of its kind, researchers at the Pacific Institute found that in 2007 alone bottled water in the...

BBC presenter Nik Gowing moderates the closing session of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Summit in Dubai November 9. Photo by Dana Smillie/WEF

DUBAI -- It's no...

TIANJIN, China - If the world seeks solace and stability for investors, it need only turn to the economic development zone in this city of 11 million, at least if we can believe the slogans on streets and brochures. The zone, TEDA, calls itself the "blessed land," an "eternal...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- By strange turn of fate or my wife's careful selection, almost every film we saw this summer at the Traverse City Film Festival had an overt or subtle water theme. And they were surprisingly captivating.

Festival host and co-founder Michael Moore is ubiquitous in his...