Global Water News

How on earth do we manage so regularly to run short of water? (more…)

Payments to protect fresh water resources have grown in the last a decade to become the second- largest environmental market after carbon credits as China and the U.S. safeguard dwindling supplies, according to a study. (more…)

As the fallout from the global financial meltdown kicks in, people everywhere are looking at how to improve or maintain their quality of life for less. (more…)

Water resources in the capital may face depletion in 50 years if no action is taken now, warned the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (EAD). (more…)

Investment in the water sector needs to be stepped up as it can help in stimulating the global economy, experts at the ongoing 5th World water Forum have said. (more…)

Chances are you’ve seen the bright bottles and flashy displays at your supermarket: Vitamin Water … Sobe Life … Oxygen Water … waters with protein and fiber … even waters that offer to cure your hangover or pump up your sexual vitality. (more…)

A non-profit environmental research institute reports that many places, especially in developing countries, are running short on clean water. (more…)

A report from the World Economic Forum warned that in only twenty years our civilization may be facing “water bankruptcy”–shortfalls of fresh water so large and pervasive that global food production could crater, meaning that we’d lose the equivalent of the entire grain production of the US and India combined. (more…)

The threat of “peak water” should be considered as big a threat – and opportunity – as the threat of peak oil. (more…)

A swelling global population, changing diets and mankind’s expanding “water footprint” could be bringing an end to the era of cheap water. (more…)