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Water You Thinking? Schwarzenegger unveils $9 billion water bond package		19 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 1:30 PM on 19 Sep 2007 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has unveiled a $9 billion water bond plan, including an unprecedented level of taxpayer payout for water projects and funding to build or expand three dams. Lawmakers hope to place some form of water bond on a Feb. 5 ballot, and Democratic legislators will likely spend the next few weeks lobbying for more of an emphasis on cleaning up polluted groun ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, legislation, news, politics, state politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

Yucca Rebuke A setback for Yucca Mountain nuke dump as judge denies water to project		06 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 9:11 AM on 06 Sep 2007 A federal judge poured cold water on the U.S. government's plans to build a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada this week -- or, more accurately, he left the feds high and dry. The Department of Energy has been seeking 8 million gallons of state-controlled water to drill test holes at Yucca Mountain; the state of Nevada, which wants to be rid of the dump, has said no ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, Nevada, news, nuclear power, politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

He Who Smelt It Delta'd It Judge issues ruling protecting delta smelt, restricting California water access		04 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:13 PM on 04 Sep 2007 For years, environmentalists have blamed the rapidly dwindling smelt population in the San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta on huge pumps that dispense water throughout southern California, but also suck in and kill huge numbers of the endangered fish. To protect the smelt, a species unique to the delta, a federal judge issued a far-reaching ruling Friday imp ...
Topics: California, endangered species, news, politics, regulation, water conflicts (all these topics)

Sudan Impact Lack of water in northern Sudan refugee camps threaten tens of thousands		28 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Sudan Impact Lack of water in northern Sudan refugee camps threaten tens of thousands Many of the refugees who fled war in Sudan's Darfur region have ended up in refugee camps that are now straining to maintain water supplies in the arid region. In June, a United Nations report indicated that the conflict, which has resulted in the deaths of an estimated 200,000 people and made some 2.5 million others homeless ...
Topics: news, Sudan, United Nations, water conflicts (all these topics)

Warming will worsen water wars The magnitude of drought and floods will increase with climate change	Joseph Romm	24 Aug 2007	Gristmill
A very good article in the Washington Post lays out the problem we face. 'Global warming will intensify drought, and it will intensify floods,' explains Stephen Schneider, editor of the journal Climatic Change and a lead author for the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Why? As the air gets warmer, there will be more water in the atmosphere. That's settled science ... You are going to intensify the hydrologic cycle. Where the atmos ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, severe weather, water conflicts, water crisis (all these topics)

Canary You Hear Me Now? Climate change a contributor to Darfur crisis, says U.N. report		25 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Canary You Hear Me Now? Climate change a contributor to Darfur crisis, says U.N. report A United Nations Environment Program report says brutal conflicts in Sudan are tied to the effects of climate change, including severe drought. Competition over scarce resources, including water, timber, oil, and land, could spark more fighting unless the issues are addressed, says the report: " ...
Topics: climate change impacts, news, Sudan, United Nations, water conflicts (all these topics)

Circle of Blue	David Roberts	17 May 2007	Gristmill
Check out Circle of Blue, a new initiative to coordinate journalists and educators around the mission of injecting the freshwater crisis into mainstream dialogue. Modeshift has a long and informative introduction to the project.
Topics: green living, water conflicts, websites (all these topics)

Galapagos report: A wrap-up on our freshwater discussions Biz leaders and scientists brainstorm solutions to the freshwater crisis	Grist	17 May 2007	Gristmill
Mary Pearl is the president of Wildlife Trust, cofounder of its Consortium for Conservation Medicine, and an adjunct research scientist at Columbia University. She recently returned from a boat trip through the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador with scientists, conservationists, and business leaders, intended to forge partnerships and develop solutions to the global freshwater crisis. This is the third and final dispatch from her journey. See also her first and second dispatches. ...
Topics: business, environmental movement, Galapagos Islands, oceans, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Our main resource shortages: Wisdom and kindness Population is not the short-term problem	Gar Lipow	10 May 2007	Gristmill
Now and again some commentator will claim that we lack to resources to support our population sustainably -- either today or in the near future. But the fact is, even with current technology we have plenty of sustainable resources for our ~7 billion population and for the ~10 billion we expect in the future. What prevents this is not scarcity but folly and cruelty. What are the constraints usually cited? There is soil and sustainable food production. But as I recently d ...
Topics: energy, population, solar thermal power, solar voltaic power, water conflicts (all these topics)

Peak coal, peak bees Trends on an ever-shrinking planet	Erik Hoffner	08 May 2007	Gristmill
I was at Coop Power's excellent annual renewable energy summit in western Massachusetts recently. Richard Heinberg was there as a presenter. He discussed his well-regarded peak oil projections, and he then put that curve next to his peak uranium and peak coal projections. That visual drew gasps from the crowd -- especially the peak coal bit. Sure we've got lots of coal, but its quality ain't what it used to be, and won't go as far. Check his data. This got me thinki ...
Topics: biodiversity, coal, energy, oil, water conflicts (all these topics)

Australia's great drought	Jason D Scorse	29 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The Economist has a great article on Australia's crippling drought. If this is what global warming is likely to bring Australia, we should pay attention and hopefully learn something about how best to cope.
Topics: Australia, climate, climate change impacts, desertification, water conflicts (all these topics)

Galapagos report: An intro to water woes A second dispatch from the sea	Grist	24 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Mary Pearl is the president of Wildlife Trust, cofounder of its Consortium for Conservation Medicine, and an adjunct research scientist at Columbia University. This week, she's traveling in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador with a boat full of scientists, conservationists, and business leaders to forge partnerships and develop solutions to the global freshwater crisis. This is the second of her dispatches from the journey. See her first dispatch here. Our first afternoon ...
Topics: business, environmental movement, Galapagos Islands, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Galapagos report: CEOs, scientists, and a very cool trip An expedition to see critters and talk freshwater	Grist	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Mary Pearl is the president of Wildlife Trust, cofounder of its Consortium for Conservation Medicine, and an adjunct research scientist at Columbia University. Over the next week, she'll be traveling in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador with a boat full of scientists, conservationists, and business leaders to forge partnerships and develop solutions to the global freshwater crisis. This is the first of her dispatches from the journey. Claudio Padua and I hatched a crazy idea ...
Topics: business, environmental movement, Galapagos Islands, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Owening Up to Their Mistakes California's Owens River runs again after nearly a century		08 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Owening Up to Their Mistakes California's Owens River runs again after nearly a century The most ambitious river habitat restoration in the West kicked off this week, as Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa turned a knob on a dam and allowed water to flow through. The dam, built in 1913 to direct water into an L.A. aqueduct some 250 miles away, evaporated Owens Lake into salt flats and kick-start ...
Topics: California, news, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics)

Bordering on Ridiculous Border-fence plan could wreak havoc on environment		02 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Bordering on Ridiculous Border-fence plan could wreak havoc on environment Congress approved a plan late last week to build a 700-mile-long, two-layer fence along the U.S.-Mexico border in an attempt to keep out illegal immigrants, eliciting an overwhelmingly negative reaction from environmentalists and, well, folks with a firm grasp on reality. "The fence is a knee-jerk r ...
Topics: land degradation, Mexico, news, politics, ranching, Texas, water conflicts (all these topics)

San Joaquin Phoenix Dead San Joaquin River will be revived		15 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
San Joaquin Phoenix Dead San Joaquin River will be revived More than 60 miles of California's dead, sandy San Joaquin River may yet run with water and salmon again, as enviros and farmers have settled an 18-year legal battle over the river's fate. Based on a new 20-year, $250-to-$800 million restoration plan, agricultural water diversion from the river will be reduced by an a ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, news, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics)

An Eden Break Birds return to Iraq marshes, but long-term recovery in doubt		30 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
An Eden Break Birds return to Iraq marshes, but long-term recovery in doubt Birds have begun to return to restored wetlands in southern Iraq, the famed marshes rumored to have been the location of the biblical Garden of Eden. In decades past, ornithologists recorded more than 250 bird species in the region, including the fun-to-say Iraq babbler and lesser white-fronted goose. In the 1980s and '90s, Saddam Hussein dra ...
Topics: Iraq, news, water conflicts, wildlife (all these topics)

From Bad to Thirst Water crisis doesn't care if countries are rich or poor		16 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
From Bad to Thirst Water crisis doesn't care if countries are rich or poor Water crisis: not just for poor countries anymore. Industrialized nations must make drastic policy changes if they wish to maintain water supplies, warns the World Wildlife Fund today. In cities from Seville to Sydney to Sacramento, water has become a hot political issue as supply declines thanks to everything from global ...
Topics: news, water conflicts, water pollution, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Dalai Drama China plans massive diversion of Tibetan river water		03 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Dalai Drama China plans massive diversion of Tibetan river water The Chinese never met a problem they couldn't solve with a few billion dollars and a massive engineering project out of scale with anything ever attempted before by humanity. The latest is a $37 billion undertaking which would divert water from rivers in the high reaches of Tibet -- which, when you think about it, don't really need all that ...
Topics: China, news, Tibet, water conflicts, Yellow River (all these topics)

Getting Fresh A chat with freshwater experts Peter Gleick and William K. Reilly	David Roberts	30 Jun 2006	Main Dish
The world's freshwater systems are in crisis, beset by everything from global warming to population growth to corruption. Though it doesn't get the media attention that's lavished on energy issues, many experts predict that water will be the central resource issue of the coming century. Water, they say, is the new oil. To the last drop. Photo: iStockphoto. Few know more about water than P ...
Topics: water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Lightning in a Bottle Bottled-water companies spur fights over water rights in Eastern states		13 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Lightning in a Bottle Bottled-water companies spur fights over water rights in Eastern states Water-rights battles, long the domain of Western states, are now being fought in the Eastern U.S., thanks to the bottled-water industry. In 1980, Americans drank less than three gallons of bottled water per capita annually; today, the number tops 26 gallons. Activists worry that large-scale water withdrawals deplete loca ...
Topics: Maine, New England, news, water conflicts (all these topics)

The Vandals Took the Handles Water privatization brings a flood of problems in U.S. cities		31 May 2006	Daily Grist
The Vandals Took the Handles Water privatization brings a flood of problems in U.S. cities As of 2003, some 1,100 U.S. municipalities had privatized their drinking-water systems, hoping that mismanaged public systems could be made higher-quality at relatively low cost. So much for that idea. Private firms in cities across the country have been investigated for illegally discharging sewage into rivers, shirking on maint ...
Topics: news, United States, water conflicts (all these topics)

Let My People Flow Water privatization falling out of favor		28 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Let My People Flow Water privatization falling out of favor The privatization of water systems took off globally in the '80s and '90s; now it seems to be going the way of ankle zippers and acid-washed denim. At last week's World Water Forum, delegates voted to issue a decree supporting government responsibility for providing safe drinking water. As if on cue, Argentina last week announced it was severing i ...
Topics: Argentina, news, United Nations, water conflicts (all these topics)

Bicker Agua World Water Forum to get controversial kickoff this week in Mexico City		15 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Bicker Agua World Water Forum to get controversial kickoff this week in Mexico City If you're going to be in Mexico City on Thursday, don't drink the water. Oh, and you might want to swing by the World Water Council's not-very-creatively-named World Water Forum -- or a protest march timed to coincide with its opening. Dozens of government ministers, hundreds of water companies, and thousands of other water-i ...
Topics: Mexico, news, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

SWOP and Go Tomasita Gonz�lez, environmental-justice organizer, answers readers' questions		10 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Tomasita Gonz�lez, of SouthWest Organizing Project. Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and probably other cities and towns in New Mexico, are seeing lots of development of housing for new residents. What are the environmental implications? How seriously is the water supply strained? Are underprivileged or minority communities affected?�� -- Mark Stephen Caponigro, New York, N.Y. Thanks for the question ...
Topics: environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, New Mexico, politics, Poverty and the Environment, waste, water conflicts (all these topics)

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