water conflicts
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Water cyclists: An epic ride to raise awareness of a scarce resource
A year and a half ago, two Dutchmen set out by bike to spread the word about the global water crisis. Fourteen thousand miles later, they say the real work still lies ahead -- but first, they'd like to kick it with beers and a couple of nice girls.
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Concentrated solar power plants are all wet
Concentrating solar has promised big additions to renewable energy production with the additional benefit of energy storage -- but there's a catch.
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Ice crisis: How disappearing glaciers devastate communities [VIDEO]
Upcoming documentary Glacial Balance shows the human consequences of glaciers receding faster than we'd like to think about.
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Where Westlands water flows, California’s agriculture follows
What's happening in California's Westlands Water District provides a sneak peek at the problems that farmers all over the world will soon confront.
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Beware the water cowboys
The water wars are usually about supply and demand. But across the country, financially challenged communities are being aggressively courted -- including by Goldman Sachs! -- to sell or lease their drinking water and wastewater utilities to private companies.
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Memo to Hu and Obama: water and energy choke points merit time at the China-U.S. summit
Washington’s foreign policy community is all aflutter anticipating the meaning and outcome of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s three-day summit with U.S. President Barack Obama. But while the two heads of state focus on resolving what pries them apart, both nations share a dangerous confrontation within their borders over energy demand and water supply -- offering a matchless opportunity for new kinds of cooperation on policy, technology, business, and trade.
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Redesigning our cities for the dawning age of global freshwater scarcity
The next urban evolution cannot occur unless we reinvent urban water supply and management to meet the demands of the age of freshwater scarcity.
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Population four times more important than climate change on water shortage
If we're all too thirsty perhaps it'll slow our rates of reproduction.
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Wading into a water war between two countries and two states
Ed Archuleta, of the El Paso Water Utilities, had to figure out how to make water resources last while sharing them with Mexico and another state.