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Dying for water: Bolivia's H2O privatization scheme (the corporation)
Bechtel owns even the water that falls from the sky!!
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World Water Week
My own blog post on World Water Week in Stockholm THIS week, with comments and links. Another really pressing global issue, with so many inter-relating aspects. My own blog post on World Water Week in Stockholm THIS week, with comments and links. Another really pressing global issue, with so m... more
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Trailer | FLOW
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?"
Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround. Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental iss... more -
Article 31: The Right to Water
Article 31:
Everyone has the right to clean and accessible water, adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family, and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic circumstance. Article 31: ... more -
Water is Life - Water Privatization Conflicts
In her book Water Wars, the Indian author Vandana Shiva lists nine principles underpinning water democracy. At least two of these principles are directly compromised by the privatization of water.... In her book Water Wars, the Indian author Vandana Shiva lists nine principles underpinning water democracy. At least two of these prin... more
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Mideast facing choice between crops and water
Global food shortages have placed the Middle East and North Africa in a quandary, as they are forced to choose between growing more crops to feed an expanding population or preserving their already scant supply of water.
For decades nations in this region have drained aquifers, sucked the salt from seawater and diverted the mighty Nile to make the deserts bloom. But those projects were so costly and used so much water that it remained far more practical to import food than to produce it. Today, some countries import 90 percent or more of their staples.
Now, the worldwide food crisis is making many countries in this politically volatile region rethink that math.
The population of the region has more than quadrupled since 1950, to 364 million, and is expected to reach nearly 600 million by 2050. By that time, the amount of fresh water available for each person, already scarce, will be cut in half, and declining resources could inflame political tensions further.
"The countries of the region are caught between the hammer of rising food prices and the anvil of steadily declining water availability per capita," Alan Richards, a professor of economics and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said via e-mail. "There is no simple solution." Global food shortages have placed the Middle East and North Africa in a quandary, as they are forced to choose between growing more cr... more -
This is not a pipe dream
Subcomandante Marcos comes to the United States with the plans for trickle-up democratic reform to empower the downtrodden.
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The World's Hardest Working Shaman
Western Shoshone leader, Corbin Harney talks about his prophetic conversation with the water
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Water: How It's Used And The Strains On This Vital Resource
Drink up!
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Video By Max Joseph, Erin Bosworth, Mike Hedge
Good Magazine
This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Generic
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ Drink up! ----- Video By Max Joseph, Erin Bosworth, Mike Hedge Good Magazine ... more -
Water Rationing in Easy Bay - California
hmm. what else are we short on?
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The Wars Of The Future Will Be Fought Over Water
Blue gold. That is what the world's water resources are now becoming. In many areas of our world it is the most precious resource. Mismanagement, waste, pollution, outdated infrastructure or no infrastructure, climate change which is exacerbating droughts and floods, and corporate privitization of water are predicted to be the catalysts of future conflicts over this most precious and basic resources that gives us life.
There is a concerted effort taking place by major corporations to make water a commodity on the open market thereby raising the price and keeping it from being accessible to those who need it most: the poor in developing countries whose population increases are leading to food shortages and lack of sanitation causing disease.Conservation and education are the keys to addressing this crisis now, as is political will on a global scale to first declare water a human right. However, the U.S refuses to do so. This video of an interview with Maude Barlow explores the coming battle for water resources if we do not see this as the crisis it is. Blue gold. That is what the world's water resources are now becoming. In many areas of our world it is the most precious resource... more -
The next big thing: a way to produce cheap, clean water
The Stirling engine, named after its designer, Robert Stirling, a 19th Century Scottish minister, is a non-polluting device that plays heat against cold to create energy. It is a closed box with two chambers, one filled with gas. Once heated from the outside, with anything from burning wood chips to charcoal, the gas expands, creating pressure. That pressure drives a piston from the hot chamber into the cool chamber.
In Kamen's design, that mechanical power achieves two goals: It creates electrical power - 300 continuous watts – enough to run a few electrical devices - and, as a bonus, creates enough heat to distill contaminated water, making it drinkable.
Rather and Kamen tested a prototype using water from the polluted Merrimack River near Kamen’s plant. Afterwards, Rather sampled some of the water.
Kamen dreams of using his device all over the world. But is this a realistic goal?
"With 10 billion people on this planet, all trying to have food and water and power, and a standard of living, the only way we're going to do that is if most of those people are contributors and not recipients. These people need to become an educated group that can add to the real value of this world." The Stirling engine, named after its designer, Robert Stirling, a 19th Century Scottish minister, is a non-polluting device that plays... more -
Alternative Gifting
I stumbled upon this site not so long ago and happily gave an ecofriendly gift. This is a great alternative during this highly consumerist season. My favorites are the goat and lemur programs that give to people in third world countries while at the same time fostering ecological stewardship. Not a new idea but certainly a novel one. Please check out Conservation International for more, or look up local charities this season as well, or perhaps even instead of buying a plasma screen in the new year, think of donating some. Americans realy are the most charitable people in the world, and the holiday season is the perfect time not only to tell someone you love that you care but also to show the world that you do and work to make it a better place whether with a monetary donation or with your time and care. God Bless, hoping everyone had a merry Christmas, and will have a bright new year (when of course you loyal Current fans will be tuning in for the ever ecological Radiohead and their new performance of In Rainbows exclusively here at Current!) I stumbled upon this site not so long ago and happily gave an ecofriendly gift. This is a great alternative during this highly consume... more
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Common Sense & Global Warming Solutions for America
According to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, developed country emissions, including the US, must peak and begin to decline by 2015. The alternative is nearly beyond comprehension. An irreversible downslide resulting in global mass extinction, overpopulation, dying oceans, climate change, toxic saturation of the biosphere, warfare over water and political destabilization.
As it now stands the 200 nations of Planet Earth are about to become 200 lifeboats. Can the US join the international effort to hold global warming to the low end? Well, if we can't make the shift from gawking spectators into political doers, then we're doomed. According to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, developed country emissions, including the US, must peak and beg... more -
Amid Drought, South Faces A Water Crisis
Even in the face of catastrophe there is no real longterm plan. This is truly disgraceful. Just what are they waiting for? Why are leaders in this country so inept in leading? Even in the face of catastrophe there is no real longterm plan. This is truly disgraceful. Just what are they waiting for? Why are lea... more
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Planet in Peril
An interesting interactive feature on CNN about how our planet is in peril due to climate change. It also offers suggestions about what we can do about this, and has a few videos (once one gets past the commercials). An interesting interactive feature on CNN about how our planet is in peril due to climate change. It also offers suggestions about wha... more
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