water

  • The next big thing: H2O
    • Foreign Policy
    • 19 April 2009

    Water is the new gold, and a few savvy countries and companies are already banking on it.

  • Water: Sin aqua non
    • The Economist
    • 08 April 2009

    THE overthrow of Madagascar’s president in mid-March was partly caused by water problems — in South Korea.

  • All hands to the pumps
    • Planning Resource
    • 19 Mar 2009

    Are there any answers to this looming crisis? Some countries are buying land. There is vague talk about governments introducing “water management reforms”. Even more opaquely, there are calls for “multi-country discussions on trans-boundary issues, international trade and investment flows”.

  • Water calculus steers farming in Arab nations
    • New York Times
    • 20 July 2008

    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.

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