Four dollars for a gallon of water? The dream of Monsanto and other...
Four dollars for a gallon of gas is ridiculous enough, but $4 for a gallon of water could someday became a reality, that is if oil tycoons like T. Boone Pickens and water bottling companies have their...
View Article‘Huge’ Water Resources Exist Under Africa, by Matt McGrath of BBC News
Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. {And} the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100 times the amount found on the...
View ArticleGeneral Assembly declares access to clean water and sanitation is a human right
28 July 2010 – Safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights, the General Assembly declared today, voicing deep...
View ArticleThe Coming water wars
Will the St. Lawrence River end up paying the price for Americans’ thirst for water? Canada will come under increasing pressure to sell water to the U.S., with potentially serious environmental...
View ArticleThousands protest in Ecuador’s capital for “Water, Life, and Dignity of the...
Quito, Ecuador — Over 25,000 people flooded Quito, Ecuador’s capital, on March 22 in the culmination of a two week march that began in the country’s Southern Amazon region and spanned roughly 700...
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