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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Oceana: talk of the town Company presentation offers glimpse of life on the other side	Andrew Sharpless	05 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall at a top-level corporate meeting just to see what really goes on behind closed doors? Consider this nifty PowerPoint presentation your ticket in. It turns out chlorine companies talk about Oceana in their meetings as much as Oceana talks about them. The Chlorine Institute held a meeting a few months back where one of the companies gave a formal presentation about being 'In the 'Crosshairs' of an Environmental NGO.' ...
Topics: business, fishing, oceans, toxics, water crisis (all these topics)

Story of the day: Nukes and global warming The two don't mix well	Joseph Romm	21 May 2007	Gristmill
This story deserves singling out because it is on an important but too-neglected subject -- the connection between energy and water. 'Climate change puts nuclear energy into hot water,' from the International Herald Tribune. Key point: Nuclear power 'requires great amounts of cool water to keep reactors operating at safe temperatures. That is worrying if the rivers and reservoirs which many power plants rely on for water are hot or depleted because of steadily rising ai ...
Topics: desertification, energy, nuclear power, water crisis (all these topics)

Water is more precious than gold Material intensity in water use	Gar Lipow	08 May 2007	Gristmill
(Part of the No Sweat Solutions series.) Before discussing water savings, we need to define what we mean by 'use.' The EPA refers to withdrawal and consumption. Withdrawal is the amount taken from surface water and the water table. Consumption refers to the amount chemically combined with something (so that it is no longer fresh water) or evaporated. Water discarded instead of consumed is referred to as 'returns,' because it is supposedly reusable. This does not even ...
Topics: agriculture, green building, green living, water crisis, water pollution (all these topics)

Inundated with information on sea level rise How high and how fast?	Joseph Romm	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
How high and fast will sea levels rise? An important piece (PDF) by Stefan Rahmstorf in Science concludes: A rise of over 1 m by 2100 for strong warming scenarios cannot be ruled out, because all that such a rise would require is that the linear relation of the rate of sea-level rise and temperature, which was found to be valid in the 20th century, remains valid in the 21st century. These scenarios, which are really nothing more than business-as-usual emissions plus ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, James Hansen, water crisis (all these topics)

Watership Down The world is running low on H2O	Lester R. Brown	19 Sep 2000	Soapbox
Droughts in the United States, Ethiopia, and Afghanistan have been big news this year -- and even more serious water shortages are emerging as the demand for water in many areas of the world simply outruns the supply. Water tables are now falling on every continent. Literally scores of countries are facing water shortages. All cracked up. By 2050, Ind We live in a water-challenged world, one that is becoming more so ...
Topics: agriculture, food, population, severe weather, water crisis (all these topics)

How Many Scientists Does It Take to Screw in a Message?	Donella H. Meadows	23 Aug 1999	Global Citizen
Dr. Jane Lubchenco, a marine ecologist from Oregon State University, has been elected to many scientific honors, one of which was the presidency of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. For her presidential address at the AAAS annual meeting, she looked straight out at the huge assembly of scientists and delivered an unapologetic, undiluted warning: "During the last few decades, huma ...
Topics: deforestation, economy, energy, oil, scientific research, water crisis (all these topics)

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