India’s Twin Challenges En Route To Water Sustainability
Water Access and Affordability Let’s start by facing some mind boggling numbers. Unicef data shows, India is home to around ...
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How Water Saved Iceland from an Economic Crisis
Editor's Note: This piece is co-authored by Arriana Spallone and Gaia Garofalo. Following the Lehman financial debacle in 2008, Iceland ...
Contamination, Part I: The Largest Poisoning of a Population in History
How is a small town in New England like a small town in Bangladesh? In 1998, a problem caught the ...
IMPAKTER ESSAY: Water, Water: Everywhere, Nowhere, and Such High Prices
Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. –Albert Szent-Györgi, 1937 winner of ...
The Example of Venezuela: How Water Mismanagement Led to Disaster
Mismanagement of water resources around the world has meant that today more than one billion people lack access to decent ...
Agricultural Innovation: How Drip Irrigation Will Save Our Crops
For millennia, in areas of low rainfall, surface irrigation has been utilized, requesting, however, an abundant water supply. Therefore, in ...
H₂O Stories: The Man Who Builds Houses with Water
Human resourcefulness possesses the capacity to apply innovation in limitless ways, as Japan-inspired Hungarian inventor Matyas Gutai has demonstrated with ...
H₂O Stories: The Upcoming Water Crisis – Advice from Professor Michael Klein
Michael Klein is not the average academic, happy to live in an ivory tower. He is deeply concerned with the ...
H₂O Stories: Freshwater Conservation, Interview with Sandra Postel
In her 2010 Ted Talk, Sandra Postel succeeded in awakening my inner emotions and sensitivities when she divinely described our ...
The Battle for Water
Water is life. Water is essential to food security and nutrition: who could disagree? There is a "right to food" ...
The Business of Bottled Water
In some parts of the world, water is a scarcity – a rare commodity that is treated as a luxury ...
Educating communities – Interview with World Water Relief
To most people, the basic elements of hygiene and sanitation are common knowledge, but in places where water is scarce ...
