Vimeo | By: Jamie Hancock | GPE – May 12, 2018: Cape Town is currently suffering from a water crisis due to a number of different factors. The residents are having to cut their daily water usage down to a limit of 50 litres per day per person and on Read more…
Al Jazeera | By: Yorgos Avgeropoulos | April 16, 2018: Is water a commodity or a human right? Cities across Europe are fighting water privatisation. In 2010, water was officially recognised as a universal human right by the United Nations. However, the European Union has yet to do the same. Read more…
GrahamHancockDotCom | By: Luke Hancock & Echan Deravy | GPE – April 02, 2018: Pollack Laboratory ~ uncovering nature’s deeply held secrets. Dr. Gerald Pollack maintains an active laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of WATER: A Multidisciplinary Research Journal; Executive Director of Read more…
The Guardian | By: Calla Wahlquist | January 31, 2018: Climate experiment shows trees release water but stop absorbing carbon in extreme heat. Australian researchers growing trees in climate change conditions have found the leaves “sweat” to survive extreme heatwaves. The year-long experiment showed that trees continue to release water Read more…
Reuters | By: Ed Stoddard & Victor Antonie | January 31, 2018: Cape Town is running out of water and low dam levels in the emerald-green highlands of Lesotho are raising alarm bells in South Africa’s industrial heartland around Johannesburg, which has so far avoided the shortages hitting other regions. Read more…
Reuters | By: Umberto Bacchi | January 31, 2018: Drought-stricken Cape Town could run out of water as soon as April, but South Africa is not alone in its struggle as ever more world cities battle acute water shortages. Water scarcity already affects more than 40 percent of the world’s Read more…
The Hill | By: Timothy Cama | January 31, 2018: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pushing back by two years an Obama administration rule redefining the federal government’s power over small waterways. The Trump administration is working to repeal the rule, dubbed the Clean Water Rule or Waters of Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – February 01, 2018: Water scarcity forces millions of people off of farms and into teeming cities. Originally published June 02, 2016: The latest national drought assessment shows that 19 of the 36 states and territories in India are experiencing moisture Read more…
Forester Network | By: Janice Kaspersen | January 30, 2018: As you might have heard, Cape Town, South Africa, is about to run out of water. Officials have predicted that “Day Zero,” when the water reserves drop so low that they’ll have to shut off the supply to the taps, Read more…
Yale 360 | E360 Digest | January 26, 2018: More than 11 billion pieces of plastic are lodged within coral reefs in the Asia-Pacific region. According to a new study published in the journal Science, as this plastic gets tangled, it often cuts the coral, increasing the risk of infection Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | GPE – January 29, 2018: The proposed halt to operations in 2019 at the West’s largest coal-fired power plant could attract White House attention. Originally published February 23, 2017: Since 1976 the 2,250-megawatt coal-fired Navajo Generating Station, with its three towering stacks Read more…
The New York Times | By: Somini Sengupta | GPE – January 27, 2018: UNITED NATIONS — Nigeria. Syria. Somalia. And now Iran. In each country, in different ways, a water crisis has triggered some combination of civil unrest, mass migration, insurgency or even full-scale war. Originally published January 18, Read more…
News24 | By: Jenni Evans | January 23, 2018: Day Zero in Cape Town has been brought forward by nine days to April 12 due to a drop in dam levels, City of Cape Town Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson said on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, due to a drop in the dam Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | January 22, 2018: Cape Town, South Africa, a city of 4 million, is facing an existential challenge. It is about to run out of fresh water. Anthony Turton, a professor at the Center for Environmental Management at the University of the Free State Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | January 16, 2018: Increasing the share of renewable energy sources in India’s electricity mix and implementing changes in cooling technologies for thermal power plants could serve not only to reduce the country’s carbon emissions intensity, but could also substantially reduce water consumption, Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Tianyi Luo | January 16, 2018: Water shortages are hurting India’s ability to produce power. New WRI research finds that 40 percent of the country’s thermal power plants are located in areas facing high water stress, a problem since these plants use water for cooling. Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Codi Kozacek | GPE – January 16, 2018: Climate change is here, but will we fight over it? Originally published March 30, 2016: Research by renowned climate scientist James Hansen and an international team of researchers found in March 2016 that climate change could cause Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – January 16, 2018: Droughts, floods, and civic opposition cause huge losses. Originally published April 28, 2016: In early November 2002, six years before Lehman Brothers melted down and the American economy came much too close to collapsing, John Cassidy wrote Read more…
PBS | By: Teresa Carey | GPE – January 15, 2018: When a predator is near, water fleas don their armor. Their bodies produce spikes and helmets to dissuade their attackers. Originally published January 12, 2018: But in a new study, aquatic biologists at Ruhr University Bochum report that freshwater Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Brady Dennis | January 08, 2018: This map (above) shows changes in the salt content of fresh water in rivers and streams across the United States over the past half-century. Warmer colors indicate increasing salinity, while cooler colors indicate decreasing salinity. The black dots represent Read more…
USGS | GPE – January 08, 2018: Snow-affected urban areas are particularly vulnerable. A U.S. Geological Survey report finds that many U.S. rivers are becoming increasingly salty, which contributes to corrosion in water distribution systems. Concentrations of chloride—a main component of salt—and other measures of potential corrosivity increased in many Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | December 27, 2017: The shale gas fracking revolution that began in the United States a decade ago has been one of the worst disasters for the environment since our Canadian friends figured out how to extract oil from the Alberta tar sands. The Read more…
The Guardian | By: Fiona Harvey | December 21, 2017: Researchers plotted temperature rises against the number of asylum applications and are predicting that as the southern hemisphere heats up the number of people migrating to the EU each year will triple. Climate change will drive a huge increase in Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By Brett Walton | GPE – December 22, 2017: A new era of severe environmental and economic disruption around the world upends freshwater supplies. Originally published December 20, 2017: Two months ago, as winter in the Southern Hemisphere turned to spring, authorities in Cape Town grew Read more…
Water & Wastewater International | By: Vijay Sundaram, Lucinda Jooste, Melanie Holmer & Allegra da Silva | GPE – December 20, 2017: Ozone-biologically activated carbon has been in use at drinking water treatment plants for years. However, the benefits of such technologies are now being acknowledged at wastewater treatment plants Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Carolyn Fortuna | December 12, 2017: Single use plastic bottles are strangling the earth’s ecosystems. Every plastic water or soda bottle that we buy contributes to ecological degradation in the form of micro plastic — those small particles of plastic that are often invisible to the Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Suzanne Ozment & Rafael Feltran-Barbieri | December 12, 2017: As The Guardian newspaper recently reported, chopping down trees in the Amazon rainforest decreases water supply to distant Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most populous city. Large-scale deforestation disrupts the water cycle and can affect weather patterns thousands Read more…
Bloomberg News | 10 December 2017: $40 billion spent so far on aqueducts to feed northern cities. Government taps technology, boosts food imports to save water Autumn rains came too late to save the stunted stalks of Shu Xinguo’s corn crop, withered by a dry July growing season. “We rely Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – December 12, 2017: In unfolding global energy revolution, expensive and ecologically risky dams may not be right choice to generate more electricity. The bend in the Mekong River where Laotian authorities want to build the Pak Beng hydropower dam is Read more…
Pacific Institute: By: Abbey Warner | GPE – December 10, 2017: “Companies seeking to manage water-related business risks can and should contribute to improved water management and governance that is also in the public interest. If done responsibly, integrating private sector action into global policy frameworks and local implementation practices Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | December 07, 2017: Southern California is in flames. Wildfires are raging just north of Los Angeles, destroying whole communities just a short drive from downtown LA. Consuming everything in their path, the fires are only extinguished when they reach the shores of the Read more…
Reuters | By: Frank Phiri | December 07, 2017: Many parts of Malawi remained without electricity on Thursday after water levels at the country’s two main dams sunk to critical levels and affected hydro power plants, the power utility said on Thursday. Malawi lost around 200 megawatts (MW) of hydro Read more…
Reuters | By: Timothy Gardner | December 05, 2017: Melting Arctic sea ice could render sun-soaked California vulnerable to a recurrence of the severe drought suffered in recent years as it is likely to cause high pressure systems that push away rain-bearing storms, a study released on Tuesday said. As Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Carson Vaughan | December 04, 2017: Planted after the Dust Bowl. Cut down in the climate change era. Surely the end was nigh. Up and down the Great Plains, from the Texas panhandle to the Dakota prairies, dust stripped the paint from their barns, the Read more…
Amirix Systems | Press Release | GPE – December 06, 2017: Amirix Systems announced on November 30, 2017 that it has been acquired by US based InnovaSea Systems. Amirix is the parent company of Bedford, Nova Scotia based Vemco and Realtime Aquaculture and Seattle, Washington based HTI-Vemco. Vemco and HTI-Vemco Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Cynthia Shahan | December 04, 2017: Berlin (Germany) and China are working with nature to create sponge cities that absorb rainwater and cool the city. Even without the challenges of climate change, cities would do well to consider the benefits of imitating natural ecosystems to cool Read more…
Reuters | By: Philip Wen | December 03, 2017: China’s central Shanxi province has introduced new rules curbing water use for steel, cement and aluminum production, state media reported on Sunday, in another blow to sectors reeling from government-enforced output cuts. Under the new policy, producers of steel, cement and Read more…
William D McMaster | GPE – December 02, 2017: Since the 1970’s Majuli islander Jadav Payeng has been planting trees in order to save his island. To date he has single handedly planted a forest larger than Central Park NYC. His forest has transformed what was once a barren wasteland, Read more…
ABC News | By: John Flesher | November 28, 2017: Despite recent improvements, the U.S. and Canada have a long way to go toward ridding the Great Lakes of pollution that endangers human health and the environment, an advisory agency said Tuesday. Inadequately treated sewage, industrial chemicals and farm runoff Read more…
Reuters | By: Andrew Mambondiyani | November 27, 2017: Henry Fusirayi Nzarayebani, an elder in Zimunya, a village in eastern Zimbabwe, walks slowly toward plants growing at the edge of a narrow dirt foot path. He plucks a few leaves from a shrub nearly hidden amid a thicket of invasive Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Kyle Field | November 28, 2017: We recently had the opportunity to speak with Craig Wooster, Project Manager & General Contractor at the Stone Edge Farm (SEF) Microgrid Project, about the impressive work the team is doing to take the farm off the grid with sustainable Read more…
Bloomberg | By: Ari Natter | November 22, 2017: Hidden in the Trump administration’s $44 billion emergency budget request is a plan to expand an Obama-era effort to make cities and towns resilient to the more frequent storms tied to climate change. The White House budget office is seeking $12 Read more…
Science Daily | Source: University Of Warwick | November 23, 2017: The smallest microplastics in our oceans — which go largely undetected and are potentially harmful — could be more effectively identified using an innovative and inexpensive new method, developed by researchers at the University of Warwick. New research, led Read more…
The Guardian | By: Oliver Milman | November 23, 2017: Sandbranch is a small, poor, largely African American community just outside Dallas but its residents have to rely on charitable donations of bottled water. It’s a sweltering Saturday in October and Pastor Eugene Keahey is becoming agitated. His flock live Read more…
Forester Network | By: Janice Kaspersen | November 21, 2017: You may have read recently about China’s “sponge cities.” They’re an approach to what we commonly call green infrastructure—an attempt to reduce flooding and infiltrate stormwater runoff in some of the areas most affected by rapid urbanization. China has spent Read more…
ABC News | By: The Associated Press | November 21, 2017: Officials in Portugal say they may begin rationing the public water supply at night-time in response to the country’s worst drought on record. Authorities say 94 percent of the Portuguese mainland is enduring what they classify as an “extreme” Read more…
Regenesis Remediation Solutions | GPE – November 22, 2017: This video presents a case study of a site contaminated with PFAS, where PlumeStop® Liquid Activated Carbon™ from REGENESIS was injected in-situ, achieving excellent distribution through the subsurface to remove contaminants. Originally published October 02, 2017: Recently, PFAS contamination in groundwater Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | GPE – November 22, 2017: PFASs — used in clothing, carpets, cookware, and more — contaminate wells across the United States. Originally published April 18, 2017: The early 1990s were the start of a sizzling decade for ChemFab, a producer of specialized Read more…
The Guardian | By: Peter Walker | November 20, 2017: The chancellor, Philip Hammond, will announce in next week’s budget a “call for evidence” on how taxes or other charges on single-use plastics such as takeaway cartons and packaging could reduce the impact of discarded waste on marine and bird Read more…
Xinhua | Editor: Liangyu | GPE – November 13, 2017: China on Friday launched its first survey of endangered finless porpoises in five years, to monitor their living conditions in moves to better rehabilitate their habitat in the Yangtze River. Originally published November 09, 2017: Two scientific survey ships left Read more…
Waterworld | By: Adrian Irimia & Georg Stockinger | GPE – November 12, 2017: Following the success of a constructed wetland in Oman, treating more than 95,000 m3/day of produced water, petrochemical company Shell has reviewed the process to be used on other sites around the world. In this article Read more…
Clean Technica | By Steve Hanley | November 06, 2017: Caroline Power is an underwater photographer who has lived on the island of Roatan in Honduras for the past 11 years. She says the amount of plastic trash floating in the ocean near her home has increased dramatically in the Read more…
Perth Now | By: John Flint | November 06, 2017: Perth’s drinking water catchment has been polluted by waste stockpiles — right under the nose of the State’s environmental watchdog, which was “closely monitoring” activities at the Oakford site, 36km south of the city. In a highly embarrassing development for Read more…
The Guardian | By: Patrick Barkham | GPE – November 06, 2017: Average of 358 items per square kilometre found in 2016, of which more than three-quarters were plastic. Originally published November 03, 2017: There has been a dramatic rise in the amount of litter found on the seabed around Read more…
Xinhua| Editor: Mu Xuequan |November 04, 2017: China should do more to improve water conservancy and water resource saving, Premier Li Keqiang said Friday in a written message to a meeting. Water conservancy infrastructure is key to supply-side structural reform in agriculture and the good of farmers, read the message. Read more…
The Hindu | By: Staff Reporter | October 31, 2017: A group of biotechnologists from Vignan University have developed a model for conversion of domestic sewage water into biogas and bio-manure. Led by scientist M.S Shivakiran, Department of Biotechnology, VU, two students Manikanta and Ravichandra, the model has employed a Read more…
MLive | By: Ron Fonger | October 30, 2017: Seventy-one water systems in Michigan now have higher lead levels than the city of Flint, results of the most recent federally-required testing shows. Water sampling in Flint from January through June showed the city’s 90th percentile for lead was at 7 Read more…
Gated Community | By: Molly Rubin | October 28, 2017: Five years ago, the coasts of New York and New Jersey were devastated by a rare late-October superstorm. On Oct. 29, 2012, a combination of record storm-wind area, a full-moon high tide, and poor infrastructure led to a devastating storm Read more…
United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) | GPE – October 30, 2017: Events such as the discovery of lead in drinking water in Flint, Michigan, and the overflow and damage to the spillway at the Oroville Dam in California have drawn attention to the condition of the nation’s drinking water Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | October 26, 2017: No end to water crisis in South Africa’s second largest city. After three consecutive dry years, Cape Town resorts to water “blackouts” to conserve water. It’s called Day Zero, the day when the six main reservoirs that supply Cape Read more…
Science Daily | By: American Chemical Society | October 18, 2017: Summary: Clean drinking water can be easy to take for granted if your home taps into treated water sources. But more than 44 million people in the U.S. get their water from private domestic wells, which are largely unregulated. Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Kate King | October 19, 2017: Cape May Point has benefited from a nature preserve built on the site of the former South Cape May, which was abandoned by residents 60 years ago after hurricanes and flooding. Since the preserve was completed, homeowners have Read more…
Yale Environment 360 | By: Fred Pearce | October 17, 2017: Major dam and irrigation projects are drying up the wetlands that sustain life in the arid Sahel region of Africa. The result has been a wave of environmental refugees, as thousands of people flee, many on boats to Europe. Read more…
The Guardian | By: Damian Carrington | October 16, 2017: WWF analysis reports that 40% of rivers are polluted with sewage that can harm wildlife and put human health at risk. Raw sewage is flowing into rivers at thousands of sites across England and Wales, a report has warned, harming Read more…
UN Global Compact | Pacific Institute | GPE – October 17, 2017: Water is becoming increasingly more important to any company’s bottom line. Originally published April 2017: In response, a growing number have been expanding their efforts to understand and mitigate water risks, and to realize opportunities via improved water Read more…
The Guardian | By: Matthew Taylor | GPE – October 14, 2017: Sewage plants are contributing to plastic pollution in the oceans with millions of tiny beads spilling into the seas around the UK, according to a new report. Originally published October 11, 2017: Dozens of UK wastewater treatment plants Read more…
NYC – DEP | By: Various Authors | GPE – October 12, 2017: The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) owns and operates one of the largest wastewater and stormwater collection systems in the world including a combined sewer system, which conveys stormwater and wastewater within the same Read more…
Nature Communications | By: Various Authors | October 09, 2017: Abstract: Diarrheal disease (DD) due to contaminated water is a major cause of child mortality globally. Forests and wetlands can provide ecosystem services that help maintain water quality. To understand the connections between land cover and childhood DD, we compiled Read more…
Xinhua| By: Zhou Xin | October 06, 2017: A latest study by Fribourg University in Switzerland revealed on Thursday that the vast majority of glaciers in center of the country will have totally disappeared by the end of the 21st century. Around 90 percent of the Hufi Glacier in the Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Gregory B. Poindexter | GPE – October 06, 2017: Results released from an Australian Renewable Energy Agency study indicate the possibility exists for the development of the 225-MW Cultana pumped storage hydropower facility located in South Australia’s Spencer Gulf. Originally published Ocrober 03, 2017: If Read more…
The Nature Conservancy | GPE – October 04, 2017: In the face of intense hurricanes, nature has an important role to play in reducing flood risk for communities. Sadly, the 2017 hurricane season will long be remembered. Our thoughts and condolences go out to those who are suffering due to Read more…
IISD | SD Knowledge Hub | By: Delia Paul | GPE – October 03, 2017: The EU is supporting pastoralists’ access to water along their seasonal migration routes, through a project funded through UN Environment. Meanwhile, UNECE, GWP and the Sahara and Sahel Observatory are supporting cooperation on the sharing Read more…
NDTV | October 02, 2017: Assam has been recuperating after several rounds of floods this year; it again saw 306 acres of land submerged in the fresh wave. A fresh wave of flood has hit Assam, submerging five districts and affecting over 78,000 people, an official said on Sunday. The Read more…
Congressional Research Service | By: Jonathan L. Ramseur | GPE – October 03, 2017: The collection and treatment of wastewater remains among the most important public health interventions in human history and has contributed to a significant decrease in waterborne diseases during the past century. Nevertheless, waste discharges from municipal Read more…
FEMA | Daily Operations Briefing | October 01, 2017: Hurricane Maria – Caribbean ~ Current Situation:Life safety and life sustainment efforts in PR (Puerto Rico) and the USVI (United States Virgin Islands) are ongoing. Approximately 3 inches of rain has fallen across the theater; additional rainfall of 1-2 inches possible Read more…
National Public Radio (NPR) | By: Camila Domonoske | GPE – September 29, 2017: Millions of people have no access to a power grid in Puerto Rico. Gas for cars and generators is hard to find. Cash is in short supply. But there is another need that is even more Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | September 27, 2017: A study released by the Carbon Disclosure Project this month finds that 103 cities around the world have a serious risk of flooding. Most of the problem can be traced directly to the increased use of concrete and asphalt since Read more…
Water World | GPE – September 29, 2018: The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), in partnership with the Water Research Foundation, today released a new report entitled Innovative and Integrated Stormwater Management. The report is an accumulation of DEP’s examination of stormwater programs from across the country Read more…
Water World | By: Matt Manges | GPE – September 28, 2017: Founded as a sugar plantation in the early 20th century and incorporated in 1959, the City of Sugar Land is the economic center of Fort Bend County in Texas. In the early 1970s, as the city expanded, a Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | September 28, 2017: Toxic emissions from common pipe repair are a health risk, researchers say. Just before lunch on September 21, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department responded to a report of three dozen ill students at Zamorano Fine Arts Academy, an elementary Read more…
Le Temps | By: Julie Zaugg | GPE – September 28, 2017: The port city is one of the most threatened by global warming. But it has adopted a series of innovative measures to protect itself from floods and rising waters. Hong Kong is one of the cities most exposed Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Helen Mountford | GPE – September 28, 2017: Wrenching stories of loss and hardship after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma made vivid and upsetting viewing in recent days. The death tolls from the two hurricanes are currently estimated at 70 to 80, and early estimates suggest Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Charles Iceland | GPE – September 28, 2017: How Should the Global Community Respond? Water stress and drought are as old as civilization, and while human beings have devised many ways to guard against these threats, economies have evolved in ways that make us more Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By Kate King and Valerie Bauerlein | September 20, 2017: Harvey and Irma caused untreated sewage to be released into streets, rivers and homes of affected towns and counties. In the days after Hurricane Irma slammed Brunswick, Ga, most businesses and restaurants were shut down. Read more…
Reuters | By: Alex Whiting | GPE – September 19, 2017: More than 1.3 billion people live on agricultural land that is deteriorating, putting them at risk of worsening hunger, water shortages and poverty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) said. Originally published September 12, 2017: People’s use Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: By Dan Frosch and Laura Kusisto | September 17, 2017: As floodwaters finally retreat, officials must contend with tens of thousands unable to return to their homes. The Government’s Growing Flood Problem: Lillian Godfrey has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Shayndi Raice | September 18, 2017: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with 10 square miles under water, executed a 25-year master plan in five years. This once-bustling city was facing all the challenges of former manufacturing hubs across the country when it wrote a 25-year plan Read more…
Reuters | By: Anna Pujol-Mazzini | September 14, 2017: Asian glaciers are set to shrink by at least a third by 2100 due to climate change, researchers said on Thursday, threatening millions who depend on their meltwaters for drinking, farming and hydro-electricity. The scientists’ prediction is based on an assumption Read more…
Clean Technica | Lenz Blog | By: Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz | September 17th, 2017: Today I learned that the German Ruhr region needs to find a budget of around 220 million Euro a year to deal with the environmental consequences of 150 years of coal mining. Around two thirds of Read more…
The Chicago Tribune | By: Barry Hatton | September 11, 2017: Portugal’s Pego do Altar reservoir looks like disused quarry now, its bare, exposed slopes rising up steeply on each side and shimmering in the sun as it holds barely 11 percent of the water it was designed for. The Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jim Carlton | September 13, 2017: With a population expected to reach 5 million by 2050, state officials are looking at siphoning water from a river that feeds Great Salt Lake, but critics worry the plan will damage the environment and fragile wetlands. Mormon Read more…
The Guardian | By: Matthew Taylor | September 12. 2017: Thames Water must break up congealed mass of fat, wet wipes and nappies to prevent raw sewage flooding streets. A fatberg weighing the same as 11 double decker buses and stretching the length of two football pitches is blocking a Read more…
Hydroworld.com | By: Elizabeth Ingram | GPE – September 12, 2017: “Community hydro” is a phrase we’ve been seeing fairly regularly recently, and it generally refers to a hydroelectric project where development was driven by a community, for the benefit of an array of shareholders. The National Energy Foundation in Read more…
Reuters | GPE – September 12, 2017: China launched nearly 8,000 water clean-up projects in the first half of 2017 with projected total investment of 667.4 billion yuan ($100 billion), the environment ministry said on Thursday. The projects were devised as part of a 2015 action plan to treat and Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | September 10th, 2017: The scale of the world’s current micro plastics pollution problem can’t be overstated. Plastics, and more importantly their nearly invisible half-broken-down remnants, are now everywhere. They’re in the food you eat, the water you drink, and even often enough in Read more…
CRS Insight | Policy And Considerations For Congress | Various Authors | September 6, 2017: An issue for Congress is how federal floodplain policy shapes implementation of federal projects and programs. Federal floodplain policy has particular relevance for federal disaster recovery assistance and infrastructure support. President Trump and, earlier, Presidents Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | GPE – September 08, 2017: As rates rise, water authorities question longstanding affordability measurement. Originally published August 24, 2017: Earlier this year, Manny Teodoro, a Texas A&M University associate professor, sat in a meeting with a committee that advises the Phoenix Water Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – September 07, 2017: Originally published July 14, 2016: Earlier this year, in an announcement that has become more routine around the world, Suy Sem, Cambodia’s minister of mines and energy, declared a moratorium on the construction of big hydropower dams Read more…
Science Daily | Source – Wildlife Conservation Society | GPE – September 07, 2017: Scientists used historical data and models to predict that almost 900 million tons of sediments would be retained by 6 potential new Andean dams on the Amazon river system. Scientists investigating the effects of six planned Read more…
The Weather Channel | By: Ada Carr | August 16, 2017: Spain’s Tagus River is at risk of drying up completely due to drought and water transfer. The river is subject to a water management plan over a decade old that did not take Spain’s droughts into consideration. The Tagus Read more…