Degradation of the Timok River Basin from unregulated mining activity of the Bor Copper Mine and untreated urban wastewater poses security risks to human health and environmental sustainability in Bulgaria and Serbia. The Timok River creates an international boundary between Bulgaria and Serbia, and joint management of the river basin is required to mitigate the adverse [...]
Irrigation Hype in Uzbekistan
World Bank (WB) continues to invest in irrigation and drainage management in upstream countries of the Aral Sea. In a previous article published on 21 December 2010, the Senior Water Resource Specialist in the Agriculture and Rural Development Unit of the Europe and Central Asia region of WB, IJsbrand de Jong told WaterWideWeb, “Close to [...]
Incentives for Water Conservation in Gujarat
Ground water depletion in Gujarat India has immediate consequences for the agricultural sector and economic development in the region. Farmers are abandoning their land due to unreliable access to water resources. Moreover, deeper drilling for groundwater as a short term solution could lead to irreversible salt water intrusion into the groundwater supply. Water instability is compounded [...]
World Bank Invests in Uzbekistan’s Water Mangement
The World Bank (WB) is currently launching the Ferghana Valley Water Resource Management Phase-I Project in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan. The economy of Uzbekistan is largely dependent upon the agricultural industry. WB is investing in water use efficiency methods and rehabilitating the irrigation and drainage infrastructure in Uzbekistan’s Ferghana Valley in order to promote [...]
Water for Agribusiness or Endangered Species in California?
A water project proposal for “California’s environmentally crippled delta”, as referred to by the New York Times, turns up the heat on water supply priorities on the West Coast. Plans to construct a delta that diverts water to farmers and cities in southern California and the Central Valley is currently on the table. According to Interior [...]
South America, africa, asia, water projects
Giving the Gift of Clean Water this Holiday Season
What better time than the holidays to rethink the value of a gift? As developed nations prepare their shopping lists, millions of children in under developed nations are still lacking the most essential necessity for life— clean water. Children in poor countries often have up to 1,000 parasitic worms in their body due to lack of [...]
Student NGO Builds Wells in India
In 2007, an eighth grade student traveled to the rural village of Paras, India. Rujul Zaparde witnessed villagers walking over one mile a day to find clean water. The sight moved the young Zaparde. When he returned to the United States, he partnered with a peer, Kevin Petrovic, and the two founded Drinking Water for [...]
Bridging Water and Education in Kenya
Why do children have to choose between attending school and spending the day walking to a creek where the water is unsafe? Is it acceptable that children trudge three miles a day to reach water that they know makes them sick, potentially sick enough to die? If children are the future, then solid investments in education [...]
USA, global initiatives, water projects
UNICEF Targets Latino Community in Awareness Campaign
The average New Yorker is concerned about subway delays, lines at Starbucks, and reaching a destination in a hurry. International concerns like deaths attributable to water-borne diseases and the global water crisis are not top priorities for every metro New Yorker. How can UNICEF call attention to the fact that 4100 children die every day [...]
Save a Water Well Save Lives
Rehabilitating broken water wells is an investment in global health, education, poverty reduction, and the safety of women and girls in developing nations. Water well rehabilitation secures the initial monetary and social investment made when water wells in a developing country were installed. Sometimes, saving water wells could mean saving a life. In Cote D’Ivoire and [...]
-
Celebrate National Park Week down in the Bayou
-
Pres. Bill Clinton Honored at Riverkeeper Festival
-
Herman Melville and Whaling
-
Follow WaterWideWeb on Facebook!
-
BCBInc’s 7 Day Charity Challenge in Full Throttle
-
EPA Enviro-Justice Award for Sustainable Puerto Rico Plan
-
Reader Survey: Time to Hear From You!
-
Did Justice Prevail? Inequity in Fines Paid for Oil Spill
-
Water Celebrity of the Week: Alicia Keys
-
A Long Time Coming: Coastal Access for Bolivia
- cosma vasile: Code access for “Dynamic Engine”: PDF. 28723051. R...
- Erin Kyzer: A ship owned by Captain Henry Morgan could have be...
- JOYCE CHELANGAT: You are doing a nice job,congratulations.I want to...
- Linda: Thanks for writing such an easy-to-undetrsand arti...
- windsurfing: It must have been a great event. Surfing and winds...
Africa
awareness
bottled
bottled water
BP
clean water
conservation
economic development
environment
Environmental Protection Agency
Evian
fish
global climate change
global warming
health
infrastructural development
initiatives
Millenium Development Goals
Millennium Development Goals
nature
obama
ocean
oil
photographer
photography
pollution
public health
recycling
sustainability
sustainable development
transparency
transport
transportation
UNESCO
United States
waste
water
water-borne diseases
water conservation
water crisis
water infrastructure
water pollution
water projects
water scarcity
water sports
© 2011 WaterWideWeb.org. Powered by WaterWideWeb.
