Professor Patricia Wouters, Director of the UNESCO Centre for Water
Law, Policy and Science, University of Dundee, today fired a shot across
the bows of climate change negotiators in Copenhagen, warning them not
to ignore one of the planet’s most vital natural resources of all -
water.

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If current population and consumption trends continue, Africa’s Ecological Footprint (a measure of its demand on nature) will exceed its biocapacity within the next twenty years, according to a publication to be released by Global Footprint Network on Tuesday, October 20. A number of countries, including Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania, are set to reach that [...]

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The warning comes from sustainability experts Envirowise and follows research which found that 70% of sustainability specialists consider the threat of dwindling water supplies to be equal to the impact of carbon emissions, while 54% believe the world will run out of water before it runs out of fuel.
It is predicted that UK groundwater will [...]

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Qteros of Marlborough, Mass., and Applied CleanTech, based in Israel, today announced that they have developed a novel solution for turning cellulose from municipal and agricultural liquid waste into ethanol fuel for cars. Joint use of the Qteros Q Microbe™ and Applied CleanTech’s Recyllose™ feedstock has been found to boost ethanol production, address sewage sludge [...]

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Today, Pure Revolution, a company specializing in residential and commercial water purification systems, announces its PureOFlow high-efficiency reverse osmosis is the effective solution to the alarming health hazards of contaminants in tap water.
In April 2009, following a five-month investigation, Associated Press (AP) exposed the legal dumping of pharmaceuticals in the waterways impacting at least 41 [...]

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In support of World Water Week, August 16-22, 2009, and the corresponding major conference in Stockholm, Sweden, the Veg Climate Alliance, an umbrella group of environmental, vegetarian, health, animal rights and other groups and activists, is urging a major societal shift toward plant-based diets to avoid a major water catastrophe.

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If the whole world is a stage, then this summer “LIVEH2O” will offer a global performance. It is being called a “High Tech Worldwide Woodstock.” The Concert for the Living Water is being advanced by “green” activists to promote peace, health, and plenty of clean water for everyone.
LIVE H2O is being hosted in more than [...]

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DOE announced on December 31 the upcoming release of Energy Star-qualified residential water heaters. Five types of residential water heaters will be released under the Energy Star label: high-efficiency gas storage water heaters; gas condensing water heaters; whole-home gas tankless water heaters; heat pump water heaters; and solar water heaters. Water heating is the second [...]

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Flooding like that which devastated the North of England last year is set to become a common event across the UK in the next 75 years, new research has shown.A study by Dr Hayley Fowler, of Newcastle University, predicts that severe storms – the likes of which currently occur every five to 25 years across [...]

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Highly colored industrial waste water is a serious environmental problem as it seriously discolors waterways as well as blocking sunlight for photosynthesizing plant species in the water. Now, researchers in Algeria have discovered that nothing more sophisticated than orange peel could be used to remove acidic dyes from industrial effluent.
They describe their findings in a [...]

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