As the world’s number one water user, Hong Kong needs to rethink how it values water in order to reduce consumption and face up to coming challenges. Water use in the Pearl River Delta cities will rival climate change as major environmental challenges. This will be made more difficult by the fact that Hongkongers use […]
The global population is growing quickly, and the FAO is asking whether we really need to produce more food to feed all those new people. According to FAO estimates, globally, we lose or waste one-third of all food produced for human consumption. That’s 1.3 billion tons of food that could be recovered and eaten by our planet’s current […]
The New York City water supply is widely considered a public jewel because of forward-looking protection initiatives, as evidenced by the city’s recently renewed waiver agreement with the New York State Health Department. Every day the city’s water system delivers over one billion gallons of largely unfiltered, incredibly high quality drinking water to nine million […]
A severe drought has forced Cape Town, South Africa’s municipal water authority to limit water consumption to 50 litres per person per day in an effort to delay Day Zero, set for 12 April, when the water supply will be turned off. Using such a small amount is no small feat considering a typical shower […]
Sandra Postel, in her new book Replenish, offers ways that farmers, water managers and consumers can unite to restore the broken water cycle. Sandra Postel wades into questions about the water cycle in her most recent book, Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity. Sandra is a water expert, director of Global Water Policy, […]
Recent deadly wildfires and mudslides that happened after California’s years-long drought have prompted some green building experts to turn to technology to help improve the built environment and protect peple and their homes from natural disasters. Improvements touch on everything from soil moisture and irrigation, indoor water use, sustainable building materials and air quality. Technology […]
The fertile agricultural lands of America’s High Plains are rich and produce $35 billion in crops annually, but to do so farmers are over-pumping the vital Ogallala Aquifer for irrigation and now it’s drying up. This has caused major downsides for Colorado and the region, with 358 miles of rivers and streams gone, fish disappearing […]
Citing problematic plastic pollution and plastic’s high oil and water use in manufacturing, the chief of Iran’s Department of Environment, Issa Kalantari has mandated all organizations associated with it to ban the use of bottled water throughout the whole country. The world renowned water scientist explained that large-scale waste production, particularly for non-biodegradable plastic waste, […]
A new study on rising temperatures from climate change found that many places will lose moisture and become more arid if average global warming doesn’t remain below 1.5° Celsius. Regions most affected by increased desertification and drought support about 20 percent of the world’s population and could have significant effect on water resources. Per the […]
