Archive for 'Water News'

Los Angeles Times article: A global clean-water shortage, November 10, 2006.

A global clean-water shortage

A U.N. agency report calls for action to save lives and energize economies by boosting supplies and sanitation.

By Robyn Dixon, Times Staff Writer
November ...

“Villagers gathered to draw water from a massive well in Natwarghad in the Indian state of Gujarat in June. During the region’s worst drought in more ...

United Nations Declares 2005-2015 International Water Decade.

On December 23, 2003, the 58th session of the United Nations General Assembly established March 22, 2005 as World Water Day. That day also marks the beginning of the International Decade for Action—Water for ...

Green pioneers

Noe Valley spec house touts conservation, including rain catchment system

Susan Fornoff, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, April 22, 2006

Even before its buyers move in, a new Noe Valley home touted by its builders as “the greenest house in San Francisco” ...

Into Each Life, Some Rain Must Fall. Why Not Bottle It?

By Nora Krug
New York Times – January 8, 2004

DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas

EVER tasted a raindrop and wondered, Why doesn’t someone bottle this stuff? Well, someone has and ...

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The following story is from a recent article in the Sudan Tribune: Bankers, not tanks, will settle Nile row (highlighted passages by RainCatcher).

NAIROBI: It won’t be military muscle that settles a centuries-old struggle for access to ...

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From People’s Daily Online:

LANZHOU, May 28 (Xinhuanet) — Eight Chinese specialists will be sent from northwest China’s Gansu Province to Nigeria on Saturday to teach locals expertise on rain water utilization.

…During their stay, they will help build ...

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From a Time magazine article:

Keeping Water Out Of Private Hands

Rudolf Amenga-Etego wants to make it affordable for all

By SIMON ROBINSON

Rudolf Amenga-Etego is no stranger to conflict. As a college student in the early 1980s, ...

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Cebu watersheds remain at risk — Philippines

“We, concerned Cebuanos, living under the same serious threat knowing that hardly 40 percent of Metro Cebu’s population is served with potable water system and considering the degraded condition of our watersheds and aquifers, ...