Water has become India’s scarcest resource, which isn’t just hurting its economy, but its people too. With 18% of the world’s population and 4% of its water resources, India is clearly a water-stressed nation. Read more...
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If your country's main export is water, what happens when your wells run dry?
Listen to NPR's podcast here - Episode 706. We take it for granted but we can’t live without it. Demand for water has been growing at a fast clip. A surge in agricultural products to feed an ever-increasing global population and advancing urbanization are pressuring the 2.5% of the world’s supply that is fresh, as opposed to saltwater. Agriculture already sucks up 70% of total fresh-water consumption. By 2030, food production will need to...
Read more... My good friend Sharon recently moved to Dodoma, TZ with the Peace Corps. Stationed near the medical school in the capital city, Sharon has experienced first hand the challenges of water scarcity. In a recent email she shared: "David, your words about water have been very true. The city I am in has a good water table underneath but getting it to the surface can be a major issue. I visited one classroom where half the older kids were out — all carrying water because the motor to the well had gone. Several mornings here in town there is no water, we keep big covered buckets in our rooms in case I have learned to take a bucket bath with a 1/4 of the bucket, clean some clothes in it, then use the rest to be sure the toilet flushes." A third of tribe members lack clean water while cities thrive on rivers running through reservations. New deals are enabling them to take some of what's theirs.
Read more... Recycled wastewater is increasingly touted as part of the solution to California’s water woes, particularly for agricultural use, as the state’s historic drought continues. The cost of treating wastewater to meet state health standards for reuse and to reduce salt levels that damage crops presents a new set of challenges, however.
Read more... LLAPALLAPANI, Bolivia — The water receded and the fish died. They surfaced by the tens of thousands, belly-up, and the stench drifted in the air for weeks. Read More... A controversy is brewing in Mexico after a mayor in a small municipality sent out a complaint that a brewery owned by an American beer company is sucking up all of his town’s water and leaving residents high and dry. In single-sentence letter to Coahuila state Governor Rubén Moreira, Mayor Leoncio Martínez Sánchez of the municipality of Zaragoza exclaimed: “We have no water for human consumption.” Read More... Farmer slashes water consumption by three-quarters at IoT connected avocado farm. Avocado trees which are monitored around the clock and get irrigated only when needed are enabling a farmer to make dramatic costs savings.
Read More... Last week, Lake Mead — a key reservoir that helps supply water for 25 million people in Nevada, Arizona, and California — shrunk to its lowest level ever. And the question of how to grapple with water scarcity is making headlines yet again. Read More... |
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