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Lake Mead helps provide water to 25 million people. And it just hit a record low
2016-05-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: It's a good time to revisit the slow-motion water crunch in the American Southwest. Last week, Lake Mead -- a key reservoir that helps supply water for 25 million people in Nevada, Arizona, and California -- shrunk to its lowest level ever. And the question of how to grapple with water scarcity is making headlines yet again. Back in the 20th century, the United States built an army of dams across the West to tame rivers, generate electricity, and store water in reservoirs for cities and farms. This...
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On world water day, 650 million people can't get a safe drink
2016-03-16 11:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Some 650 million people, or one in 10 of the world's population, do not have access to safe water, putting them at risk of infectious diseases and premature death. Dirty water and poor sanitation can cause severe diarrheal diseases in children, killing 900 under-fives a day across the world, according to United Nations estimates - or one child every two minutes. Among newborn babies, the World Health Organization says infections caused by a lack of safe water and an unclean environment cause...
Environmental risks killing 12.6 million people, WHO study says
2016-03-15 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Nearly one in four deaths are linked to unhealthy environments and are avoidable, a new World Health Organisation study the first major assessment of environmental risk since 2006 has shown. It suggests environmental risks now contribute to more than 100 of the worlds most dangerous diseases, injuries, and kills 12.6 million people a year nearly one in four or 23% of all deaths. Of these, two-thirds or 8.2m deaths are from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as strokes, cancers and...
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Why This City of 21 Million People Is Sinking 3 Feet Every Year
2016-03-05 17:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Mexico City is sinking. Home to 21 million people, who consume nearly 287 billion gallons of water each year, the city has sunk more than 32 feet in the last 60 years because 70 percent of the water people rely on is extracted from the aquifer below the city. "There`s no fixing it," journalist Andrea Noel told producer Alan Sanchez in the video below from Fusion. "Once land is subsided, it`s subsided." The water table is sinking at a rate of 1 meter (3.2 feet) per year. As the city population...
El Nio leaves 100 million people short of food and water worldwide
2016-02-17 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Severe droughts and floods triggered by one of the strongest El Nio weather events ever recorded have left nearly 100 million people in southern Africa, Asia and Latin America facing food and water shortages and vulnerable to diseases including Zika, UN bodies, international aid agencies and governments have said. New figures from the UNs World Food Programme say 40 million people in rural areas and 9 million in urban centres who live in the drought-affected parts of Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South...