Water Security

What's Your Water footprint? Water Security, Global Health and Chocolate Bars

Dr Layla McCay | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Water Footprint, Water Security, World Water Day, Health, Water, Farming, Women and Girls, Impact News
Dr Layla McCay

Unless we're one of the (mostly) women and girls who spend 200 million hours a year fetching it from wells or rivers, we have no particular incentives to ration water -- and it's running out.

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The Water-Energy-Food Security Challenge: America As The Global Savior?

Upmanu Lall | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Clean Water, Clean-Water, Water Security, World Water Day, Drinking Water, Water, Food Security, Impact-Earth-Day, Green-Earth-Day, Impact News
Upmanu Lall

Can the world support the aspirations for food and energy of 7 billion people? Will we meet the needs of the additional 2 billion people expected by 2050? The global water crisis is upon us, and it's time that the US played a direct role in sustainable development of the world's water and food.

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Worldwatch Report Focuses on China's Green Future

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Urban Farming Forestry, Water Security, Green Jobs, Green Economy and Green Jobs: Current Status and Potentials for 2020, Urban Planning, Sustainable Agriculture, The Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, China, Food Security, Ecoagriculture, Green News
Danielle Nierenberg

China's environmental problems remain a cause for global concern, as climate change continues to reduce agricultural production and create instability in world food prices.

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An Aspen Institute Dialogue on America's Water Infrastructure

Michael Deane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aspen Institute, Water Security, Water Infrastructure, Water Crisis, Water, Green News
Michael Deane

Experts throughout the United States agree that our nation's drinking water and wastewater systems face increasing infrastructure replacement challenges over the next several decades.

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Bigger Than Africa

Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Un, Technology, Cgi, United Nations, Water, Africa, Water Security, Water Scarcity, Green News
Jonathan Greenblatt

The water and sanitation crisis in many parts of the world as a whole is hard to fathom, and mainly because it is completely preventable.

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