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FOOD RUINED BY DROUGHT COULD FEED MORE THAN 80M A DAY, SAYS WORLD BANK
The World Bank said women that were born in droughts bore the marks for their entire lives, growing up mentally and physically stunted, undernourished and unwell... READ MORE›
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TAGUS RIVER AT RISK OF DRYING UP COMPLETELY
Construction began in 1966 and water started flowing out of the dammed Tagus headwaters to the Segura in 1979... READ MORE›
US FACES WORST DROUGHTS IN 1,000 YEARS, PREDICT SCIENTISTS
Climate change is likely to cause decade-long mega-droughts across US south-west and Great Plains, new study shows... READ MORE›
'WE WOKE UP IN A DESERT' THE WATER CRISIS TAKING HOLD ACROSS EGYPT
Egypt, once celebrated as the gift of the Nile, is in the grips of a serious water crisis... READ MORE›
WATER COMPANIES LOSING VAST AMOUNTS THROUGH LEAKAGE, AS DROUGHT FEARS RISE
Furthermore, many companies in the parched south and east of England have been set leak reduction targets for 2020 of zero or even targets that could allow leakages to increase... READ MORE›
EXPERT WARNS IT'S A MISTAKE TO REBUILD FORT MCMURRAY NEIGHBOURHOOD ON FLOOD PLAIN
John Pomeroy says it is unwise for Fort McMurray and the province to okay rebuilding in a floodplain... READ MORE›
CANADA HAS 20 PERCENT OF THE PLANET'S FRESHWATER. BUT SOME WORRY THERE'S NOT ENOUGH TO GO AROUND.
Campaigners want to shut down a Nestle bottled water plant in southern Ontario, arguing there's not enough water to go around... READ MORE›
FLOOD FEARS RENEWED AS ANOTHER STORM AIMS FOR CALIFORNIA
Meanwhile, the water level was decreasing at Lake Oroville dam, where a damaged spillway had raised major flood concerns... READ MORE›
QUEBEC TOWNS HIT BY FLOODING COULD SEE WATER RECEDE SUNDAY
Quebec towns hit by flooding could see water recede Sunday officials... READ MORE›
ENGINEERS QUESTION WISDOM OF KEEPING HOMES AND COTTAGES ON FLOOD PLAIN
John Price, water resources engineer at the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority, said people and planners should be paying close attention to current flood mapping... READ MORE›
GROUNDWATER STUDY: THE TAP COULD RUN DRY
We're using our groundwater resources too fast -- faster than they're being renewed... READ MORE›
IS CALIFORNIA'S DROUGHT OVER? DEPENDS HOW DEEP YOU DIG
We need, in many areas, three, four, five of those to really replenish our groundwater resources to where they were before this last drought, Harter says... READ MORE›
SHENHUA CRITICISES GOVERNMENT DELAY ON NEW SOUTH WALES COALMINE
By the environment minister, Greg Hunt, using the water trigger legislation after the NSW government's Planning Assessment Commission PAC gave approval last month with conditions... READ MORE›
END OF SANCTIONS MAY HELP IRAN FACE AN ACCELERATING ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
In addition to direct investment in agriculture to reduce environmental degradation, Iran can benefit from sustainable industrial growth that improves the efficiency of water usage... READ MORE›
CONTAMINATED WATER SPILLS FROM TECK'S TRAIL OPERATION
It says some of the contaminated water may have gone into nearby Stoney Creek, which flows into the Columbia River... READ MORE›
WITH SUN SHINING, FLOODWATERS BEGIN TO RECEDE WEST OF MONTREAL
Heavy rain earlier this week caused the Ottawa River to overflow, leading to severe flooding in parts of Rigaud, Que., west of Montreal... READ MORE›
COULD PLANTING TREES SAVE THE WORLD'S LARGEST RIVER ISLAND?
Frequent flooding of the Brahmaputra river is causing Majuli, located in India's Assam state, to erode away... READ MORE›
WATER SCARCITY AROUND THE WORLD SHARE YOUR PHOTOS AND STORIES
Today 1.2 billion people almost a fifth of the global population live in areas of physical water scarcity... READ MORE›
FLOOD WARNING ISSUED FOR PORT ALBERNI AREA ON VANCOUVER ISLAND
But flood waters from the swollen Somass River started to surround homes in the Tseshaht First Nation on Tuesday... READ MORE›
NORTHERN NAMIBIA BRACES FOR WORST FLOOD IN MEMORY
Water from the dam is expected to flood the Kunene river, which in turn will flood parts of southern Angola and northern Namibia... READ MORE›
GLOBAL WARMING AND WATER SCARCITY COULD CAUSE ECONOMIES TO SHRINK BY MID-CENTURY
The World Bank said countries in large swathes of the world could shrink by up to 6 percent by 2050 due to water scarcity and climate change... READ MORE›
WATER MANAGEMENT FLAWED OWING TO VASTLY UNDERESTIMATED DROUGHT RISK, STUDY FINDS
That means that all our water management strategies are potentially not optimised, said co-author and hydrologist Anthony Kiem from the University of Newcastle... READ MORE›
SEVERE WATER SCARCITY HITS 4 BILLION PEOPLE EVERY YEAR
The study's authors, two water experts at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, said they weren't shocked by their findings... READ MORE›
FLOOD VICTIMS, RIVER MANAGER AT ODDS OVER WATER WARNINGS
But what they've done is hold back as much water as possible to alleviate downstream flooding, he said... READ MORE›
PARTS OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND PUT ON FLOOD ALERT
The Environment Agency said the one severe flood warning - in place for Portreath, on the north Cornwall coast - had been downgraded... READ MORE›
?40M PLEDGE FOR FLOOD DEFENCES LABELLED 'SHORT-TERM FIX' BY OPPOSITION PARTIES
The extra funding, described by the prime minister as vital, relates to Storm Eva, which battered northern England, including Cumbria and Yorkshire on Boxing Day... READ MORE›
AREAS NOT FLOODED SINCE BEFORE THE FAMINE WERE UNDER WATER IN CLONMEL
The irony is that Thomastown artist Shem Caulfied is talking to me standing in six inches of water in his front room on Thursday morning... READ MORE›
IN A TWIST, SNOW IS KEEPING NATURAL GAS PRICES DOWN IN TEXAS
Flows along Kinder Morgan Inc.'s El Paso pipeline, the main shipper of Texas gas to California, are down 28 percent since the start of the year... READ MORE›
MONGOLIA BANS GRAIN EXPORTS DUE TO DROUGHT FROM HOTTEST TEMPERATURES IN 56 YEARS
According to the United Nations Environment Programme, temperatures in Mongolia have risen by 2 degrees Celsius in the last 70 years, three times faster than the global average... READ MORE›
AT LEAST FIVE DEAD IN TUSCANY AS HEAVY RAINS, FLOODING LASHES ITALY
ROME - Torrential rain in Italy has triggered flooding that killed at least five people in the Tuscan port town of Leghorn... READ MORE›
DESPERATION SETS IN AS FLOOD DEATH TOLL IN COLOMBIA TOPS 200
Mr Santos said more than 40 of the dead identified so far were under 18, perhaps because youngsters were already in bed when the floodwater struck... READ MORE›