Global Water Crisis News from AlterNet.org
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| Vandana Shiva: Why We Face Both Food and Water Crises The world renown activist reminds people that corporation-friendly economic schemes got us into this mess in the first place. |
| How One Region Has Gone from Breadbasket to Food Crisis At the heart of the story is pesticide poisoning, water shortages, soil salinity, fertilizer runoff, skyrocketing cancer rates and farmer suicides. |
| How Schwarzenegger Is Trying to Finagle More Big Dam Construction California Governor Schwarzenegger is using global warming as an excuse for more massive dam construction. |
| The Triple Threat: Our Food, Water and Climate Challenges Why are food and water shortages are feeding the climate crisis. |
| Drive 1,000 Miles or Feed a Person for a Year? The Biofuels Dilemma Can the pumping of ethanol into American fuel tanks really make it harder for parents to feed their families? |
| Water Shortage Concerns: City Contemplates Going From Toilet to Tap Tuscon residents may soon be drinking treated wastewater as part of a growing national trend to offset diminishing freshwater sources. |
| Selling Tap Water in New York to Help Provide Clean Water in Developing Countries An initiative to charge diners $1 for tap water and donate it to UNICEF to provide clean drinking water is taking off. |
| Sinking Without Trace: Australia's Unknown Climate Change Victims The islands of the Torres Strait are slowly being submerged and the plight of their inhabitants is being overlooked. |
| A Return to the Tap: Why Bottled Water Is on the Way Out Environmental concerns are sending people back to their taps and putting bottled water companies on the defensive. |
| Latin America: Why There's a Water Crisis in the Most Water-Rich Region With the most annual rainfall of any region in the world, the water crisis in Latin America is particularly perplexing. |
| To Save Rivers, Help Farmers Chinese environmental activist Tian Jun found that in order to clean up Chengdu's rivers, she needed to look upstream. |
| Drought Is Spurring Resource Wars In Ethiopia, violence breaks out as water turns to sand and climate change takes hold. It may be a warning to the rest of the world. |
| Vermont Deals a Blow to the Bottled Water Industry The state's legislature has passed a bill that limits how much groundwater bottlers and other companies can draw. |
| Can You Get by on Just 5 Gallons of Water a Day? A British woman attempts for a day what most in the developing world deal with all the time -- living on just over 5 gallons of water. |
| Our Political Leaders Are to Blame in World Water Crisis As Barlow's new book shows, the world does not lack the knowledge about how to build a water-secure future; it lacks the political will. |
| Turkey Plans to Sell Rivers and Lakes to Corporations The water privatization fever is hitting Turkey, just a year before the country will host the World Water Forum. |
| Forget Carbon: You Should Be Checking Your Water Footprint Water footprints will tell consumers the amount of precious H2O that has been used in the products they buy. |
| Fishermen Hit Hard by Closure of West Coast Salmon Fishing Drastic federal action to try to save chinook salmon is latest move in an ongoing battle. |
| Asia Teeters Toward Food Crisis from Lack of Water In countries like India, overpumping of groundwater for agriculture is reaching crisis level. |
| Goldman Prize Winner Saves One of the World's Most Important Drinking Sources How one activist took on President Putin and oil interests to save 20 percent of thew world's freshwater reserve. |
