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Wired
April 21, 2008
Matthew Power |
Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping. Water has been a serious issue in the developing world for so long, but the scarcity of freshwater is no longer a problem restricted to poor countries.   |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010 |
The Coming Clash Between Water and Energy Our thirst for water competes with our hunger for energy. Only radical new ideas will get us out of this mess |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Adee & Moore |
In the American Southwest, the Energy Problem Is Water Energy producers on the Colorado River are struggling |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Seema Singh |
Pumping Punjab Dry Cheap energy endangers India's ability to feed itself |
Wired
November 2004
Jeff Howe |
The Great Southwest Salt Saga How an accidental oasis in the Mexican desert sank Arizona's $250 million desalination plant. A case study in the law of unintended consequences. |
IDB America
May 2004
Daniel Drosdoff |
Barbados Acts to Prevent Water Crisis Geography and the tourism industry complicate the island's efforts to secure freshwater supplies. |
Popular Mechanics
October 27, 2009
Adam Hadhazy |
How California's New Water Laws Inform the Coming National Crisis As California withers through a third year of drought, state lawmakers have been recalled to Sacramento for a special legislative session to try and squelch a decades-in-the-making water crisis. |
Salon.com
August 28, 2002
Suzy Hansen |
Not a drop to drink Forget oil -- an expert on the world's water supply talks about the vital substance we will hoard, ration and probably go to war for in the near future. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Sally Adee |
Eight Technologies for Drinkable Seawater Desalination takes too much energy, but emerging technologies will help |
Popular Mechanics
December 9, 2009
Adam Hadhazy |
Cutting Water Use to Curb Carbon Dioxide By taking water conservation further, and by thinking differently about how we treat and move water, analysts believe the U.S. can achieve dramatic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions fairly quickly. |
Geotimes
May 2004
Lisa Robert |
Hijacking the Rio Grande: Aquifer Mining in an Arid River Basin A major dilemma for the modern Southwest: a choice between a future driven by rampant growth or by an obligation to hydrologic reality. |
Inc.
November 2008
Adam Bluestein |
Blue is the New Green The world is running out of clean water. The prospect of widespread shortages is creating a new kind of new economy. Meet 11 entrepreneurs who are ahead of the curve, finding opportunity in the largest emerging market the world has seen in some time. |
Fast Company
Dec 2014/Jan 2015
Jon Gertner |
We're Running Out Of Water As California's drought worsened, just north of San Diego a massive seawater desalination plant-moved closer to completion. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
G. Pascal Zachary |
Thirst For Power Can thousands of small dams solve Africa's power crunch? |
Outside
April 2007 |
Tapped This report introduces you to the water heroes who are reversing the water crisis woes and showing us how to keep the planet afloat. |
Popular Mechanics
February 5, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Plumbing the Planet: The 5 Biggest Projects Taking on the World's Water Supply Around the world, countries are trying to combat water supply problems with ever-more-clever engineering: bigger and badder treatment plants, pipelines, tunnels and reservoirs. Here are five projects hoping to be big and bad enough. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 17, 2005
Garry Emmons |
Turning on the Tap: Is Water the Next Oil? Many competing forces lead some experts to believe that water will replace petroleum as the twenty-first century's core commodity, with nations rich in water enjoying enormous social and economic advantages over those that are not. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2008
Erik Sofge |
Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure American infrastructure is in trouble, from collapsed bridges to leaking dams. Here are some fresh ideas, smart engineering and new technology that can be used to fix it. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Sally Adee |
Water Ship Up Firm gets $250 million to make oceangoing desalination vessels. |
TIME Asia
January 24, 2011
Kamenev & Mahr |
The Moment As the floodwaters of the Brisbane River churned through the heart of the city that shares its name, some residents found solace in the sense of ironic humor for which Australia is famed. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Willy H. Verheye |
Food Production or Food Aid?: An African Challenge Food production is not keeping pace with Africa's rapidly growing needs. Aid programs in the 1970s and 1980s were considered a temporary solution to the most appalling famines, but Africa's food shortage appears to be worsening. This paper discusses the reasons for this situation and ways to address it. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2009
William Sweet |
The Biggest Little PV Plant in the East The northeastern United States is not where most would think to put a photovoltaic power plant. But one just started up in Pennsylvania this winter. It's delivering the watts, but at what cost? |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
Michael Milstein |
6 Radical Solutions for U.S. Southwest's Peak Water Problem Increased usage and years of drought are diminishing the Colorado River's flow. States that rely on that water are forming strategies to deal with the problem. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2008
Sarah Adee |
New Water Technology Headed for Parched Places Capacitive deionization to debut in drought-struck Australia. |
BusinessWeek
September 2, 2010
Malcolm Knox |
The Deal Is Simple. Australia Gets Money, China Gets Australia The benefits for Australia in becoming China's quarry are quantifiable and visible. |
Scientific American
December 2006
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
The Challenge of Sustainable Water Water supplies around the world are already severely stressed. Population growth and global warming will only worsen those problems |
IDB America
April 2008
Paul Constance |
Latin America's Choice Brazil proves that voluntary changes in behavior, combined with modest investments in energy-saving equipment, can produce huge savings without compromising human welfare or economic growth. |
BusinessWeek
April 22, 2010
Dexter Roberts |
Drought in China Hits the Energy Sector Hydroelectric power shortages mount in southwestern China. |
Geotimes
August 2007
Megan Sever |
Genetic Discovery Yields Stronger Plants Researchers have discovered a gene in a variety of rice that allows rice plants to grow better in low-nutrient conditions and may in fact actually enhance plant growth. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Brendan I. Koerner |
Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now The grid took more than a century to grow into the unwieldy beast it is now. Given the urgency of climate change, energy independence, and economic demands, we have only a fraction of that time to fix it. |
The Motley Fool
February 10, 2011
Nathan Parmelee |
Australia's Role in Feeding the World Agricultural commodities are in demand, and Australia has plenty. |
