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Displaying 105 of about 1329 resultsAn international team of researchers has carried out the first systematic global review of water reallocation from rural to urban regions – the practice of transferring water from rural areas to cities to meet demand from growing urban populations. They found that 69 cities with a population of 383 million people receive approximately 16 billion cubic m…
By Evan Thomas, Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder
Millions of people living in the arid regions of the Horn of Africa lack safe, reliable and affordable water throughout the year. This is because of recent decreases in rainfall in the drought-prone Horn of Africa, rising water demands and persistent…
By A. Narayanamoorthy
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There’s much scope for easing water scarcity in agriculture. The agricultural sector (irrigation) currently consumes about 80 per cent of water in India, thanks to the inefficient conventional flood method of irrigation (FMI). Data on water use efficiency indicates that India uses 2-3 times more water than major agricultura…
By Ella Burgess
Beating drought with ingenuity, Turkana.
Climate change is leading to increasingly frequent and more severe hazards and disasters. It’s something that is effecting us all but varies in severity. A recent article from the Guardian reported that Fairbourne in north Wales will become the first community in the UK to be decommiss…
UCI-led study examines consumption patterns and suggests resilience strategies
Nearly one-fifth of the world’s population lives in a stressed water basin where the next climate change-driven incident could threaten access to an essential resource for agriculture, industry and life itself, according to a paper by University of California, Irvine researc…
As climate change brings more drought, California may need to rethink how it uses and shares water
By Laurie Goering
When the first white settlers arrived in California's remote eastern Owens Valley, the name given to its indigenous tribes was Paiute, or "land of flowing water" in the local language.
But for more than a century, the water in the vall…
Football fields installed at schools in South Africa can store and filter rainwater and teachers have noticed improvements in health and class attendance of pupils
By Kim Harrisberg
Johannesburg - Sibusiso Mohlapi, a math and science teacher at Boshoek Primary School in South Africa's North West province, often had empty seats in his classroom when ch…
This document reports on ZEF’s research and capacity building activities in 2010-2011. This year’s thematic overview is adapted to ZEF’s updated strategic research themes: (i) governance; (ii) land use and food security, including desertification and drought; (iii) mobility and migration; (iv) environmental, climate change and related risks; (v) water r…
This booklet describes the acheivements of the ‘Strengthening Voices’ project launched in 2007. It explains How pastoralist communities and local government are shaping strategies for adaptive environmental management and poverty reduction in Tanzania’s drylands. It informs that national politicians, local district officials and community participants h…
This paper concentrates on the drought component where the key strategies for overcoming drought emergencies were, following a summit held in Nairobi on September 8th-9th, 2011 when Governments of East Africa and Horn Africa came together to develop a strategy to end drought emergencies. The strategies proposed include: (i) strengthen adaptive capacity…
In the National Adaptation Programme of Action to Climate Change developed by the Lao government in 2009, Deputy Prime Minister Chair of National Environment Committee Mr Asang Laoly says Laos has seen in recent years “more frequent and severe floods and droughts which are alternately occurring each year.” “Temperature is continuously increasing and the…
'Access to water is likely to be one of the defining challenges of our time as climate change and population growth puts pressure on the precious resource,' according to Acclimatise.
As the U.S. continues to face increased water scarcity, there is mounting concern over the sustainability of our water resources,” said Upmanu Lall, Director of the Columb…
Following the droughts in the US and Russia and insufficient monsoon rains in Asia, food prices are soaring and Oxfam and the UN are preparing for the next global food crisis, according to the Guardian. Scientists are urging to adopt a vegetarian diet in order to save water to grow more food in an increasingly climate-erratic world. Five to 10 times mor…
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New measure developed for sustainability of global groundwater water supply points to overuse of water in Asia and North America
Farmers are unsustainably exploiting groundwater in a number of important agricultural regions, according to a team of researchers led by Prof. Tom Gleeson of McGill’s Department of Civil Engineering, in colla…
By Robert Kimball
Early last week, the strained electrical power infrastructure in northern and eastern India was pushed to its breaking point. Two days of power failures impacted a staggering 670 million people (or, put another way, more than the combined populations of the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Central America, and Brazil!) , leaving them in the dark…