WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Small is good in quest to resolve water crisis

Mar 13, 2012 (AFP)

Can Peepoo stop the flying toilet? A small Swedish company believes so. At the World Water Forum in Marseille, it is promoting a cheap, smart fix for the world'...

Water crunch looms without action on waste: UN report

Mar 12, 2012 (AFP)

Water problems in many parts of the world are chronic and without a crackdown on waste will worsen as demand for food rises and climate change intensifies, the ...

Palestinians campaign for $450m desalination plant in Gaza

Mar 12, 2012 (AFP)

The Palestinian Authority on Monday pushed plans at the World Water Forum here for a desalination plant costing more than 350 million euros ($450 million) to ea...

UN scientists warn of increased groundwater demands due to climate change

Mar 12, 2012 (SPX)

Climate change has been studied extensively, but a new body of research guided by a San Francisco State University hydrologist looks beneath the surface of the ...

Time to tackle water crisis, global forum told

Mar 12, 2012 (AFP)

A global meeting on water opened in France on Monday with demands to provide billions of poor people with clean water and decent sanitation and address the spir...

First study to measure value of marine spatial planning

Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)

The ocean is becoming an increasingly crowded place. New users, such as the wind industry, compete with existing users and interests for space and resources. Wi...

Water Forum to place spotlight on looming crisis

Mar 09, 2012 (AFP)

A global gathering of policymakers, corporations and specialists unfolds in this southern French city from Monday to ponder the future of water, fast emerging a...

Contamination of La Selva geothermal system in Girona, Spain

Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)

Monitoring the construction of wells, avoid over-exploiting cold groundwater close to hot groundwater, and controlling mineral water extraction. These are the r...

Overfishing leaves swaths of Mediterranean barren

Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)

Centuries of overexploitation of fish and other marine resources - as well as invasion of fish from the Red Sea - have turned some formerly healthy ecosystems o...

James Cameron to explore Earth's deepest ocean trench

Mar 08, 2012 (AFP)

"Titanic" director James Cameron will try in the coming weeks to dive to the deepest place on Earth, further than any other human has on a solo mission, to retu...

Water shortage a global threat without urgent reform: OECD

Mar 07, 2012 (AFP)

Urgent reforms to raise efficiency in the way water is used around the world are needed to avert serious shortages in the next decades, and markets in water can...

World meets UN safe water goal

Mar 06, 2012 (AFP)

The world has easily beaten a 2015 deadline to halve the proportion of people drinking unsafe water, the United Nations Children's Fund and the World Health Org...

New report questions hard-edged 'living shorelines' in estuaries

Mar 06, 2012 (SPX)

The increasing use of large breakwaters and other hard structures to reduce erosion in "living shorelines" along coastal estuaries may be no better for the envi...

Current rates of ocean acidification are unparalleled in Earth's history

Mar 06, 2012 (SPX)

The study, based on an expert workshop led by Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the University of Bristol, assessed in detail a number ...

Ocean acidification rate may be unprecedented

Mar 05, 2012 (SPX)

The world's oceans may be turning acidic faster today from human carbon emissions than they did during four major extinctions in the last 300 million years, whe...

Small dams, big impact on Mekong River fish: study

Mar 05, 2012 (AFP)

Plans to build hydropower dams along small branches of southeast Asia's longest river could have a devastating impact on millions of people who rely on the worl...

Great Barrier Reef corals clone in bad weather: study

Mar 02, 2012 (AFP)

Coral offspring spawned from Australia's Great Barrier Reef clone themselves when rough weather hits with not all of the fragile embryos perishing in big waves,...

Water levels of river 'normal,' says Indian official

Mar 02, 2012 (AFP)

Water levels of a major river flowing through India's northeast are "normal," an Indian government official said Friday, denying claims a dam in neighbouring Ch...

River flowing from China dries up in India: lawmaker

Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)

Water levels have plunged in a major river in India's northeast that originates in Tibet, local officials told AFP on Thursday, triggering speculation that Chin...

Sea level rise to alter economics of California beaches

Mar 01, 2012 (SPX)

Rising sea levels are likely to change Southern California beaches in the coming century, but not in ways you might expect. While some beaches may shrink or pos...