Global Water News

African economies are especially vulnerable to water shortages, delegates to the Implementing Environmental Water Allocations (IEWA) conference heard on Monday. (more…)

South Africa could be getting up to a tenth of its drinking water from the sea within the next two decades, the department of water affairs said on Monday. (more…)

In a bid to capitalize on escalating demand for potable water, Boston-based Oasys Water Inc. has raised $10 million to pilot a technology it says could halve the cost of desalination and wastewater treatment. (more…)

To get a sense of how little the rainstorms over the past week have added to California’s water supply, consider this: Volume in the state’s largest reservoir, Shasta Lake, edged up by just 1 percent of the lake’s capacity. (more…)

A small group of protesters urged Niagara Falls councillors to “ban the bottle” – a move that would put this city in the same league as Toronto and London, Ont., cities that adopted bans last year. (more…)

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

Jaguars still roam the world’s largest wetland and endangered Hyacinth Macaws nest in its trees but advancing farms and industries are destroying Brazil’s Pantanal region at an alarming rate. (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…)

Is it time to stick a straw into the Pacific Ocean? About 20 water agencies up and down the California coast seem to think so. (more…)

20 water agencies look to ocean water as relief from imminent drought, but environnental groups decry ‘easy solution.’ (more…)