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Making water-excreta accounts
English | 15 December 2009, by CSE (Centre for Science and Environment), Sunita Narain

How will India supply drinking water in cities? Many argue the problem is not inadequate water. The problem is the lack of investment in building infrastructure in cities and the lack of managerial capacities to operate the systems, once created. This line of thought then leads logically to (…)
Living River Siam, defending the rivers of Southeast Asia
English | 18 November 2009

Living River Siam is a Thai Chiang Mai-based NGO dedicated to the defence of the rivers of Southeast Asia, notably the Mekong and the Salween, and of the people who depend on them for their livelihood. A task all the more important since mega-projects such as dams have been multiplying lately in (…)
Massive Blackout in Brazil: Not Enough Dams or Too Many?
English | 17 November 2009

In the night between November 10th and 11th, a massive power failure caused a blackout in 16 states of the Brazilian Union (out of 26), including São Paulo et Rio de Janeiro, affecting dozens of millions. The source of the blackout seems to lie in the high-tension cables coming from the Itaipu (…)
Melting Glaciers and Desertification: South-American Blogs on Water and Climate Change
English | 5 November 2009

Global Voices, a website dedicated to the “global conversation online” (blogs from around the world), reports on two of the main dramatic effects of climate change - and of the current development model - on water resources in South America: glaciers melting and the advance of desertification. (…)
Doubts in India about the National River Linking Project
English | 5 November 2009

Indian authorities have designed a gigantic river interconnection project, dubbed the National River Linking Project (NRLP), which aims to replenish the rivers of Northern India, affected by pollution, overexploitation and climate change, using water from Southern rivers. Recent declarations (…)
Thousands March against Narmada Valley Dam Projects
English | 5 November 2009

Ten thousand men and women displaced by Indira Sagar, Omkareshwar and other dams on the Narmada marched for their right to rehabilitation in alternate lands with the slogan "Give us land or give back our villages!" The State of Madhya Pradesh, instead of providing alternate lands has brutally (…)
The India Water Portal
English | 22 October 2009, by Arghyam (Safe, sustainable water for all), KRISHNA Vijay

With all the recent advances in information technology and networking on the Internet, it is of interest to see how all of this works in the important human development space. Information and Communication Technologies For Development, ICT4D is the acronym used to describe this area of work. (…)
Permanent drought in Australia?
English | 8 October 2009, by Olivier Petitjean

Australia has been suffering from drought for the last 12 years. It has had a devastating effect on entire areas of the economic and social system. The difficulty in supplying water has affected various sectors, from agriculture to towns, and has brought about serious change to behaviour and to (…)
Water in Southern Africa: extensive coverage by the Inter-Press Service (IPS)
English | 7 October 2009, by Olivier Petitjean

The «Southern Africa Water Wire» provides in-depth coverage of a diverse range of water-related issues in Southern Africa. Supported by the German Cooperation Agency, the Southern Africa water Wire includes articles on themes as diverse as water governance, integrated management institutions, (…)
Sharing the Waters of the Nile: Conflicts and Co-operation
English | 6 October 2009, by Larbi Bouguerra, Olivier Petitjean

The waters of the Nile represent an important resource for different countries that share this river’s catchment basin. For historical reasons Egypt has always exploited most of the river’s flow. The size of its population, as well as its almost total dependence on the waters of the Nile for its (…)

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