The first water war
By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | Pravda.ru If petroleum is the resource of today, one which fuels wars as the energy lobby covets the possessions of others, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocent people as their lands are plundered, as we saw in Iraq and Libya, then the resource of tomorrow, fuelling its wars, is water. Water, the basic [...]
Read More →Over 12,000 dead pigs fished out in China
Al Jazeera Chinese workers have fished more than 12,000 dead pigs out of a main waterway in the cities of Shanghai and Jiaxing over the week, in a scandal that has spotlighted China’s troubles with food safety, according to officials. The South China Morning Post newspaper quoted government sources as saying on Sunday that nearly 9,000 swine [...]
Read More →Tigris and Euphrates rivers losing water reserves at a rapid pace
By ChillyManjaro | The Watchers A large portion of the Middle East lost freshwater reserves rapidly during the past decade. New data revealed already an arid region of Tigris-Euphrates Basin, which grows even drier due to human consumption of water for drinking and agriculture. The research team observed the Tigris and Euphrates river basins – including parts of [...]
Read More →Mystery surrounds over 900 dead pigs being found in Chinese river
ANI Authorities in Shanghai have pulled out more than 900 dead pigs out of a Chinese river, which is a source of drinking water for some residents. Authorities said they began receiving reports of the animals floating upstream in the Huangpu River earlier in the week. Environmental experts have been working during daylight hours to [...]
Read More →New Jersey Water Officials Charged With Poisoning Drinking Water
ENS-Newswire Two top officials of the East Orange Water Commission have been charged with conspiring to close contaminated wells before monthly water tests so as to falsely report low levels of a regulated contaminant in drinking water supplied to customers, then opening the wells, allowing the chemical back into the water supply. The New Jersey [...]
Read More →EU: Water rights e-petition first to get 1 million signatures
EurAktiv Organisers of a European Citizens’ Initiative that seeks to halt sales of public water utilities say they have gathered one million signatures from across Europe, becoming the first such group to do so since the grass-roots efforts were launched last spring. The Water is a Human Right initiative calls for water supply and management to be [...]
Read More →America’s Water Supply Will Soon Become “Slim Pickens”
By Dave Hodges | The Commonsense Show The value of black gold is quickly being replaced by the indispensable worth of blue gold. A former Jesse VenturaConspiracy Theory episode clearly demonstrated that the globalists are buying up our water rights and are planning to sell it back to us at exorbitant rates. Globalist corporations and unscrupulous wealthy individuals are [...]
Read More →Will climate change cause water conflict?
By Maria Jesus Delgado | EurekAlert International researchers from 14 institutions met in Nicosia (Cyprus) on the 10th and 11th of December to present and debate the results of studies on water, conflict and security conducted in the past three years in a variety of locations in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Sahel under the CLICO [...]
Read More →How the Feds Let Industry Pollute the Nation’s Underground Water Supply
By Abrahm Lustgarten | ProPublica Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground reservoirs that help supply more than half of the nation’s drinking water. In many cases, the Environmental Protection Agency has granted these so-called aquifer exemptions in [...]
Read More →Asteroids brought water to Earth?
TOI Asteroids from the inner solar system may be the source of the majority of Earth’s water, a new study has claimed, contradicting the belief that most of our planet’s water originated in the outer solar system. The prevailing theories suggest that water was delivered on Earth from outer solar system by comets that coalesced [...]
Read More →Million year old groundwater in Maryland water supply
eScience A portion of the groundwater in the upper Patapsco aquifer underlying Maryland is over a million years old. A new study suggests that this ancient groundwater, a vital source of freshwater supplies for the region east of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, was recharged over periods of time much greater than human timescales. “Understanding the [...]
Read More →Pumping groundwater may cause rise in sea level
NewKerala A new study calculates that by 2050, groundwater pumping will cause a global sea level rise of about 0.8 mm per year. Pumping groundwater for irrigation, drinking and industrial uses, doesn’t just seep back into the ground, it also evaporates into the air or runs off into rivers and canals, eventually emptying into the [...]
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