How much water is on earth? Is that amount changing?
23/03/12 10:11
While seemingly basic questions, they are actually a bit complex and there is much research occurring around them right now:
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Revenge of the Nerds: Climate Change and Water at the World Water Forum
21/03/12 14:05
Three years ago, I attended my first World Water Forum in Istanbul. These meetings occur every three years, with each Forum in a different country. For me, Istanbul marked the beginning of several key alliances and initiatives. It was the Forum that happened before the Copenhagen COP in particular, and climate change discussions were already at a fever pitch by March and contained a strongly optimistic view of what might happen that year on mitigation policy. This was also the first period when we saw the extended water community begin to discuss adaptation in a more serious, sustained way.
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Big Dams and Climate Change: A Debate
21/03/12 14:04
I did not personally attend this session though I was in Marseille at the same time, but a colleague sent a link this morning to a debate at the World Water Forum last week on big dams and their role in maintaining or creating climate resilience:
http://www.worldwaterforum6.org/en/gallery/videos/forum-sessions-and-conferences/friday-16-march/?id=308
(scroll to the bottom of the screen to the third of the three YouTube vidoes to watch the debate, which itself is divided into eight or nine segments)
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http://www.worldwaterforum6.org/en/gallery/videos/forum-sessions-and-conferences/friday-16-march/?id=308
(scroll to the bottom of the screen to the third of the three YouTube vidoes to watch the debate, which itself is divided into eight or nine segments)
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New stationarities: avoiding problems in the solutions
06/03/12 13:27
Most of the things that are wrong with water are easy to identify: the massive quantities of largely untreated sewage, industrial pollution that has been the legacy of the industrial revolution worldwide, chemical fertilizer and pest management runoff that is the legacy of the agricultural revolution in the most productive countries, building “bad dams” that are designed and/or operated in ways that significantly an negatively alter the ecosystems and livelihoods of rivers, invasive species, and the overconsumption and diversion of water resources, killing rivers for great lengths or draining lakes and marshes into cities, fields, and factories.
You could call these “first-order problems” with managing water. Read More...
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