Saudi Arabia's largest dairy company will soon be unable to farm alfalfa in its own parched country to feed its 170,000 cows. So it's turning to an unlikely place to grow the water-chugging crop — the drought-stricken American Southwest.
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On 11 March, panic struck engineers at a giant power station on the banks of the Ganges river in West Bengal state.
Readings showed that the water level in the canal connecting the river to the plant was going down rapidly. Water is used to produce steam to run the turbines and for cooling vital equipment of coal-fired power stations. Read More... The last quarter of 2015 saw five out of the nine provinces — KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, the North West, including the breadbasket of the country, the Free State — declared as water disaster areas and by extension disaster areas for agriculture. Somehow, the linkages between how the intensive water use for coal-fired electricity exacerbating water scarcity and water poverty, while also contributing to catastrophic climate change (which in turn will increase water insecurity), are not being made.
Read More... Our country must do better than nearly failing when it comes to something so vital and fundamental as water. Yet a D is our nation’s water infrastructure grade from the American Society of Civil Engineers. It has taken the lead contamination scandal in Flint to focus the attention of Congress and elected officials across the nation, but Flint is only the tip of an iceberg.
Read More... As a nation, we have become disciples of data. We interview 60,000 families a month to determine the unemployment rate, we monitor how much energy we use every seven days, Amazon ranks sales of every book it sells every hour. Then there is water.
Read More... Australia—the world’s driest inhabited continent—plans to require foreign investors to declare their interests in water rights like to this river used by farmers in three southeast states. The proposed register, which for the first time would create a public record of the level of foreign ownership, comes at a time when the country is seeing a wave of deal-making in agriculture. Public submissions close Friday.
Read More... In autumn of 2014 – three years into California’s devastating drought– architect Russ Drinker became fixated on brewing beer from recycled greywater (that is, water that’s been treated after use in sinks, showers and washing clothes).
Read More... Kolhapur/New Delhi: “Overuse of fertilisers has contaminated our ground water”, said Rajendra Nad, 52, who farms millet, sorghum and groundnut, and lives in Jalgaon district’s Bhusaval. Fertiliser overuse is posing a grave threat to India’s freshwater sources.
Read More... SAN JOSE, Calif.—This growing region needs more water, and it’s spending hundreds of millions to get it. A $72 million plant opened here in 2014 to turn wastewater into drinking water, and the Santa Clara Valley Water District is planning to build five more plants to purify water in the region
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