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Half of world could face extreme water scarcity by 2095
2014-08-18 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Without climate change mitigation policies, half of the world could face extreme water scarcity before the end of the century, a study has found. However, researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) also warned that poorly planned policies could exacerbate the crisis. The study, which was carried out with the help of the Joint Global Change Research Institute, is comprehensive and used unique modelling technology. The model linked economic, energy, land-use and climate systems...
A world without water: Financial Times counts the cost of water scarcity
2014-07-18 13:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Since 2011, companies around the world have spent more than $84 billion (49bn) to improve the way they conserve, manage or obtain water, according to a new investigation from the Financial Times. In the first article of a new series on the global threat of water scarcity, FT environment correspondent Pilita Clark looks how the marginal cost of water a resource previously taken for granted is rising for companies of all sizes. The report explains how a growing, aspirational global population...
Lux: Butadiene scarcity opens up opportunities for bio- and methane-based processes
2014-07-07 19:30:36| Green Car Congress
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Water Scarcity Drives U.S. Communities Toward Smarter Use, Recycling
2014-03-24 08:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Virtually all of the water flushed down toilets and sent down drains in U.S. homes and businesses goes to wastewater treatment plants where it is cleaned up and then discharged into rivers, lakes, streams and oceans. Only a small percentage is directly reused. A conservation push spurred in part by drought, and expectations of greater shortages in the future, could change that. Soon, consumers could be irrigating their lawns or washing their cars with water that has come directly from a wastewater...
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Global Energy Thirst Threatens to Worsen Water Scarcity, UN Says
2014-03-21 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Energy production will increasingly strain water resources in the coming decades even as more than 1 billion of the planets 7 billion people already lack access to both, according to a United Nations report. There is an increasing potential for serious conflict between power generation, other water users and environmental considerations, said the UN World Water Development Report published today that focused on water and energy. Ninety percent of power generation is water-intensive, it said....