water scarcity | GDACC

Mexican Communities On Guard Against Thirst for Oil – Inter Press Service

January 1, 2014

Mexican Communities On Guard Against Thirst for Oil – Inter Press Service.

Filed under Environment, Health, Save the Planet, Shale Gas Development-Hydrofracking, Water Tagged with hydrofracking, indigenous, Mexico, public resistance, water scarcity, water supply

Plan for China’s Water Crisis Spurs Concern – NYTimes.com

June 2, 2011

Plan for China’s Water Crisis Spurs Concern – NYTimes.com.

Plan for China’s water crisis spurs concern. North China is dying. A chronic drought is ravaging farmland. The Gobi Desert is inching south. The Yellow River, the so-called birthplace of Chinese civilization, is so polluted it can no longer supply drinking water. The rapid growth of megacities has drained underground aquifers that took millenniums to fill. New York Times [Registration Required]
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/world/asia/02water.html

Filed under Water Tagged with China, water contamination, water scarcity, water supply

What Does the Arab World Do When its Water Runs Out? | Common Dreams

February 21, 2011

What Does the Arab World Do When its Water Runs Out? | Common Dreams.

Filed under Save the Planet, Water Tagged with middle east, water contamination, water scarcity, water supply, world water crisis