Page 1 of 47
WATER TABLE
Links/resources on water [work-in-progress]
updates for this table will be posted to water.re-configure.org
If you have suggestions, email earthintelnet |at| gmail.com
2050 plan / Australia / Blueprint developed by Gosford City and Wyong Shire Councils for managing the Central Coast’s water resources over the next four decades. / http://www.gosford.nsw.gov.au/water_and_sewer/water-plan-2050
2050 plan / Germany / Inviting others to join in the discussion on the future of water / http://www.water2050.de
2050 plan / Arizona/United States / Tucson Water’s Long Range Water Plan lays out the challenges and opportunities we all face if we want to ensure a secure water future for our families and ourselves. Below you will find links to the entire 255 page document or individual chapters and articles. / http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/water/waterplan.htm
Agriculture / Yemen / Qat consumes 37% of the water supply.
The government derives approximately 75% of its revenue from oil exports, and it in turn has used this revenue to import its food. Why were they not just growing their own food, you ask? The answer is simple: qat. Qat is a plant with stimulant properties and it is chewed compulsively by millions of men and women in Yemen on a daily basis. It plays such an important role in everyday life that its production, in 2008 anyway, was responsible for 6% of the GDP and the employment of 14% of the population. / http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLAE656628._CH_.2420
http://www.desertlamp.com/?p=5144
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/17-2
Anti-corruption/Integrity / Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia / “Mapping of Integrity and Accountability in Water Activities and Relevant Capacities in the SADC-Region” / http://www.siwi.org/documents/Resources/Papers/Paper-12-SADC.pdf
Aquifer / US / Ogallala Aquifer March 2009:
The massive underground water source feeds the middle third of the country but is disappearing fast. Can it be conserved? $20 billion a year in food and fiber depend on the aquifer / http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-ogallala-aquifer
Arsenic / Bangladesh / More than 20 percent of deaths in a study of 12,000 Bangladeshis were attributable to arsenic exposure from contaminated drinking water, new research reports. The large 10-year study is the first to prospectively measure the relationship between individual exposure to arsenic and its associated mortality risk, the authors said. The data, collected by an international team from Chicago, New York, and Bangladesh, will be published early online Saturday in The Lancet. / http://www.physorg.com/news196090774.html
Arsenic / US / Arsenic in Drinking Water: Regulatory Developments and Issues (May 1, 2007) / http://tr.im/QNqI
Arsenic / Bangladesh / Charles Harvey: Water Detective
Charles Harvey traces the source of widespread arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh, setting the stage for programs that could benefit 20 million people. / http://www.miller-mccune.com/science/charles-harvey-water-detective-20153
Awareness / Global / Our Water Commons: Toward a New Freshwater Narrative (39 pg PDF) / http://tr.im/RLL3
Awareness / Charity / Charity: Water NY Times promo / http://tr.im/Ru28
Awareness / Movie
Middle East / Marathon filmed related to water awareness through Water.org. 111 days and taken them through 6 countries: Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya, and Egypt. By the team's daily GPS record, they had traveled over 4,300 miles (6,920 kilometers). / http://runningthesahara.com
Awareness / Global / Small network of partners petitioning...and this water clock shows an estimate that constantly updates of the population, those without clean water, and those without basic sanitation. / http://www.watertreaty.org/index.php
Awareness/Event / The World’s Longest Toilet Queue is a mass mobilisation event and Guinness World Record attempt bringing together thousands of campaigners from across the world to demand real change at the meeting. / http://www.worldtoiletqueue.org
Awareness/fundraising / Web campaign / Peculiar concept to obtain funds / http://globalfast.org/
Awareness/WWC / Global / The Water Monitoring Alliance, an initiative of the World Water Council, is made up of organisations involved in the collection, analysis, reporting and dissemination of information on water in all its uses. / http://www.watermonitoringalliance.net
Bank / Mexico / National water authority Conagua has opened a water bank in Sinaloa state, the authority said in a release. The bank will offer assessments in the administrative process of acquiring water rights and feasibility studies, and will provide information about the supply and demand for water in the area. The authority is now considering creating a total of 13 such institutions, one for each water basin
authority in the country, according to Conagua’s northern Pacific water basin organization head Jorge Miguel Ramírez Pérez. / http://tr.im/RE1F
Basin Council / US / Walla Walla Basin Water Council (Washington State, United States) / http://www.wwbwc.org
Bioethanol / US / Bioethanol's impact on water supply 3 times higher than once thought / http://www.physorg.com/news168689599.html
Full report
Book reviews / Global / Book reviews on water at PhiBetaIota.net, the public intelligence blog / http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/07/worth-a-look-books-on-water-and-civilization/
Bottled / Non-commercial resource on the quality of bottled water and how it compares to tap water and home water filtration. Owned by Doss Holdings, Inc. and managed by Charles Strand, CEO of Sun Water and Author of "All About Water" and others involved in the water quality and environmental field / http://www.bottledwaterblues.com
Bottled / Animation / Animated story of bottled water / http://storyofbottledwater.org
Bottled / Book / Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water by Peter Gleick / http://tr.im/Rs8g
Bottled / BPA / BPA in plastic bottled water / http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090521141208.htm
Bottled / Global / “Think Outside the Bottle” is a campaign working to promote, protect and ensure public funding for our public water systems. Working with public officials, faith groups, restaurants, celebrities, campuses and individuals to support public systems by opting for tap over bottled water. / http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/think-outside-bottle/
Bottled / Graphic / Graphic: Bottled water imports and exports / http://tr.im/RtAI
Bottled / Pay article / “Risk assessment of heterotrophic bacteria from bottled drinking water sold in Indian markets”
[Non-free article from: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health] / http://tr.im/RtqT
Bottled / Regulation / fewer regulations on bottled water than tap says GAO / http://tr.im/RtWd & http://tr.im/RtWs
Bottled / True Cost / True cost of bottled water / http://tr.im/Ru5i
Bottled / Global/info-graphic / Info-graphic showing the corporatized world of water / http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2010-07-27-bottledwater_500.png
Business Intel / Global / Global Water Intelligence is a monthly magazine about the business of water. We aim to do two things for our readers:
l tell you where your next dollar is coming from by tracking major water projects around the world from conception to contract award
l discuss with you the emerging trends in the industry to help you formulate strategy in a rapidly changing world / http://www.globalwaterintel.com/home/
Change over Time / Photos / NASA Satellite Photos Capture a Decade of Land and Water Changes / http://tr.im/RtUV
Clean-up / China / Successful clean-up of China water / http://www.worstpolluted.org/projects_reports/display/75
Cleanliness / Data US / degree of cleanliness of U.S. drinking water / http://www.good.is/post/Transparency-How-Clean-Is-Your-Tap-Water
Colorado River / US / Lower Colorado River Authority / http://www.lcra.org
Commercial / document / A revealing aspect to this Proctor & Gamble/USAID document:
I searched through the whole document using the term "rain" in order to find rainwater and found nothing. The closest terms that came up were training and drainage. Training came up over and over and over, yet with all the training, no mention of how or why to harvest rainwater. This is incredible. Only locals who attended their training and promotional gatherings mentioned rainwater, but not for water harvesting. The entire document focuses on promotion of "PUR" to clean dirty water. / http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/ehkm/gda2010.pdf
Impressive video demo
Main Website: Children's Safe Drinking Water
Commercial / Flash video / Proctor & Gamble commercial / http://www.wbcsd.org/web/stream/sl/procter/pur.html
Companies (largest) / Lists / Two of the largest water companies in the world, Veolia and Suez. / Veolia:
http://www.veoliawater.com
& http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veolia
Suez:
http://www.suez-environnement.com
& http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_(company)
Company / Global / Water Health International / http://www.waterhealth.com
Company/filtration / US / (Needs further verification) This company claims: There are 35,000 pesticides containing 600 chemical compounds. Yet municipal water systems are only required to test for six. (NY Times claims “91 contaminants are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, yet more than 60,000 chemicals are used within the United States, according to EPA estimates.” The General Accounting Office reports that 20% of the nation's 65,000 community systems are unable to meet minimum standards set by theSafe Drinking Water Act. More than 700 organic chemicals have been identified in drinking water, and some of them are suspected cancer causing agents. A recent government study found that more than 25% of all large U.S. public water systems contain traces of one or more toxic substances. ... Public water systems do not test for the carcinogens and other dangerous chemicals that are being found. / http://www.freedrinkingwater.com/water-purification-need.htm
Conflict / Audio / Few audio segments on water issues from 2002-2005 / http://www.theconnection.org/?s=water+series
Conflict / Canada / Conflicts over Canadian resources / http://www.waterwarcrimes.com
Conflict / Global / World Water Conflict Chronology by the Pacific Institute / http://worldwater.org/conflict.html
Conservation/awareness / United States / Claims “36 States anticipate water shortages by 2013.” / http://savewateramerica.com
Conservation/High tech / U.S. / New Street-Smart Fire Hydrants Use High Tech Equipment to Conserve Water / http://cleantechnica.com/2010/06/27/new-street-smart-fire-hydrants-use-high-tech-equipment-to-conserve-water/
Consumption / China / Feb 2009 China pledges to get wealthier with less water
By 2020, China wants to reduce water-use per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 60%. The plan was announced last weekend – amid the country's worst drought for half a century –
by the water-resources minister Chen Lei in the administration's annual national conference
in Guilin, Guangxi province. / http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090219/full/news.2009.111.html
Container/Transport / Spragg & Associates is a worldwide group of over 50 corporations, groups and individuals (including engineers from M.I.T.), who have spent the past fifteen years developing and testing waterbag technology in order to deliver large quantities of fresh water throughout the oceans of the world. / http://www.waterbag.com
Contamination / Arsenic/ Bangledesh / Bangladesh relies heavily on groundwater for the irrigation of dry-season rice. However, the groundwater used for irrigation often contains high concentrations of arsenic, potentially jeopardizing the future of rice production in the country. / http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v3/n1/full/ngeo723.html
Contamination / Arsenic/ Bangledesh / 2009 Bangledesh arsenic water field tests("Poisoned backwaters") / http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v3/n1/full/ngeo727.html
Contamination / China Map / China river pollution grades map / http://tr.im/RtXI
Contamination / New Mexico / Radioactive run off in New Mexico / http://www.phibetaiota.net/?p=15403
Contamination / US / U.S. water contaminant project from the NY Times / http://projects.nytimes.com/toxic-waters/contaminants & series http://projects.nytimes.com/toxic-waters
Contamination / Video / Frontline video “Poisoned Waters” / http://tr.im/RtTZ
Contamination/acid mine drainage / South Africa / Feb 2010: A public private partnership (PPP) between South Africa's Department of Water Affairs (DWA) and mining companies has been established to formulate a collaborative solution to the acid mine drainage (AMD) problem in the Witwatersrand gold fields area, which is affecting the western, central, and eastern basins, and impacting the Vaal and Crocodile River systems. / http://tr.im/RZ5G
Contamination/Detection / Global / "You just need to find out which living creatures, e.g. insects and crabs, are found at a certain point along the river and in what numbers," Liess explains. The authorities responsible for water management usually have such data available, he adds. Liess and his colleagues have now set up a Web application where this data can be entered and evaluated to show immediately how high the level of pollution in the rivers under investigation actually is. / http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090904071905.htm
Contamination/Detection / Spain / Robot fish to detect pollution / http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE52J1RY20090320
Contamination/fertilizer / China / Farmers using 40% more fertilizer than needed report by Renmin University in China and Greenpeace / http://tr.im/RMmw
Contamination/leachate / US / Maine – 'leachate' (medications in liquids from landfills into river water, could affect other states) reported by Maine Department of Environmental Qualit...wastewater treatment facilities in Maine are not equipped to remove medical contaminants from the liquid from toilet flushing, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) argue that amounts are too small to be serious, Office of National Drug Control Policy has issued suggestions on how to safely dispose of unused prescriptions or expired medications / http://tr.im/RMku
Contamination/micro/nano / Eawag Aquatic Research: Worldwide, around 11,000 new substances are registered every day...and nanoparticles, which – in a rapidly expanding market – are already found in over 800 products. / http://www.eawag.ch/medien/bulletin/20090623/index_EN
Contamination/Petroleum / Nigeria / Nigeria - One drop of oil can make up to 25 liters of water undrinkable. Amnesty reported that residents in the Niger Delta drink water contaminated with oil. Additionally, a half-century of petroleum pollution decimated fish populations that were the primary source of protein for these communities for generations. According to a May 2006 joint study by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Environment, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation and several environmental organizations, 9 million to 13 million barrels have spilled during the history of oil production in the Niger Delta — the equivalent of a spill the size of the Exxon Valdez every year for the last fifty years. Shell says that “about half [of its worldwide] total volume spilled in 2008 was caused by one sabotage incident in Nigeria, where a large pipeline was damaged by explosives.” / http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2009/world/war-on-water/
Contamination/Slums / Kenya / Kibera's Soweto East Village in Nairobi -- considered to be the world's second largest urban slum. There are no official population figures, but Kibera is thought to be home to as many as a million people: 25% of Nairobi's population, on 1% of the land (and there is almost a complete lack of piped safe water and no formal sanitation). / http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/gleick/detail?blogid=104&entry_id=59590
Corruption / Alerts / International Water and Sanitation Centre (anti-corruption alerts) / http://www.irc.nl
Corruption / Peru / January 2010: Head of Peru’s main water utility resigns over corruption allegations / http://tr.im/R1s6
Corruption / Global / Global Corruption in the Water Sector 2008 report / http://www.transparency.org/publications/gcr/gcr_2008
Corruption Anti / Afghanistan / Direct grants to a village council in Jurm, Badakshan province have