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Looming crisis of diminishing fresh Water Reserve :: S Kunjabihari
2016-07-10 22:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
E Pao Net: Peter Rogers observed, "As demand for freshwater soars, planetary supplies are becoming unpredictable". Peter Rogers is Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering and Professor of City and Regional Planning at Harvard University. He is also Senior Adviser to the 'Global Water Partnership', an organization devoted to improving global water management practices. According to him, models examining the effects of climate change and population and economic growth on water availability by 2025...
Himalayan researcher reverses earlier findings of looming water shortage
2013-08-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: One of the big unknowns of climate change predictions -- and one that has led to considerable contention -- lies in knowing the future of water runoff from the Himalayas. The snow- and ice-rich region supplies water for billions of people in Asia and is sometimes referred to as the Earth's "Third Pole." For years, scientists struggled to understand how precipitation will change in these mountains (ClimateWire, Oct. 24, 2011). They have also had difficulty determining how much glacier melt from the...
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The looming water crisis
2013-07-03 15:37:52| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Saturday Evening Post: Kylan Frye steers her Subaru station wagon along the slushy roadways of the Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area at the edge of Utahs Great Salt Lake. Its a February afternoon, gray and cold, and a layer of snow covers the wetlands that spread for miles around us. The Wasatch Range rises ruggedly in the background, but otherwise it feels like were driving through a barren white sea, indistinguishable from the pale sky if not for the occasional dots of sagebrush, sedge, and cottonwood. The...
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Looming Threat of Water Scarcity
2013-03-25 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - Last Friday - 22 March - was World Water Day. It is held each year as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources, writes Chris Harris.
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