Pearltrees visualization problem mac safari. Liquid Gold: The Economics of Water Trading Markets. Presidio Graduate School’s Macroeconomics course for Spring 2012, is authoring a series of articles. The articles on this “micro-blog” reflect reactions and thoughts on news items, economic theory, and other issues as they pertain to the concept of sustainability. Follow along here. By Nick Sanderson Water scarcity is a global reality — nearly half of the world’s population will suffer from severe water shortages by the year 2050 and over $335 billion in investment over the next twenty years is needed to maintain our current drinking water infrastructure. The distribution of water throughout the world is inefficient and new market tools are being developed to address the issues revolving around water rights and allocation.
An alternative to traditional water tariff scheduling is being developed throughout the world to address these issues of inefficiency and is pricing water relative to supply and demand. Scroll down to see comments. Rivers are Largest Source Of Mercury in Arctic Ocean, Study Says. Water Security Maps. (Updated 28 November 2012) Here we shall present maps (list, details and sample of maps below) related to global water security that are useful for both analysis and delivery of products.
As new maps are created and found, they will be added to the corresponding Pearltree #Watermaps. The Pearltree can be accessed, as for the energy security bibliography, by clicking on the Pearl on the right hand side of this paragraph, or in the embedded application below. You are welcome to share your findings by joining the team on Pearltree.
Maps are both necessary tools for analysis and crucial delivery visuals for our foresight and warning products. They constitute a category of delivery form, which can, furthermore, be combined with other categories to suit at best our needs. The maps under copyrights that do not allow fair free use (C.C.) are filed at the bottom of the post. National Intelligence Council (US), ODNI – 2012: Global Water Security Map Aquastat (FAO) maps MacDonald, et al. Active Fire Mapping Program. Climate change hits globe's water cycle. LIVERMORE, Calif., May 21 (UPI) -- The Earth's dry lands are getting drier and wet ones wetter as climate change shifts and accelerates the globe's water cycle, U.S. researchers say.
Changing patterns of salinity in the global ocean during the past 50 years show a clear fingerprint of climate change on the shift in worldwide rainfall and evaporation, they said. Scientists with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California along with colleagues at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization say the Earth's water cycle has strengthened by 4 percent 1950-2000. The cycle represents the ratio of rainfall rates with rates of evaporation. "These changes suggest that arid regions have become drier and high rainfall regions have become wetter in response to observed global warming," LLNL researcher Paul Durack said. Changes in ocean salinity can be directly linked to climate change, researchers said. Now blue rating water standards for industry. The Union Ministry of Water Resources has asked the CII to frame guidelines for increasing water efficiency in Indian industries.
The CII is likely to come up with the water standards by March next year News | NEW DELHI, INDIA: India is set to become the first country in the world to come up with "blue ratings" - on the lines of green ratings for eco-friendly ventures - for increasing management of water, fast turning a scarce resource, in industry. The Union Ministry of Water Resources has asked the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to frame guidelines for increasing water efficiency in Indian industries. The CII is likely to come up with the water standards by March next year. "Water supply is not going to increase but demand is sky rocketing and sooner or later, you will have stress on water.
He said there has been a lot of focus on bringing down carbon emissions and checking carbon footprints but nothing has been done to check the water footprint. Water Outlook to 2050: The OECD calls for early and strategic action | Global Water Forum. Water Outlook to 2050: The OECD calls for early and strategic action (pdf) By Dr. Xavier Leflaive, OECD Environment Directorate, Paris Water infrastructure construction, Canberra, Australia Around the world, cities, farmers, industries, energy suppliers, and ecosystems are increasingly competing for their daily water needs. Without proper water management, the costs of this situation can be high – not just financially, but also in terms of lost opportunities, compromised health and environmental damage.
The OECD and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency have reviewed recent trends, projected plausible future trends, and explored potential policy responses. Trends and projections The Water Outlook1 covers four issues: the availability of the resource, water quality, access to water supply and sanitation, and water-related disasters. Figure 1. Global water demand: Baseline scenario, 2000 and 2050. 1. Water demand is projected to increase by 55% globally between 2000 and 2050. 2. 3.
OTHERS / STATES : Israeli water major in talks with W Bengal for infra projects. New Delhi, May 22: Israel's largest national water company, Mekorot, is in talks with the West Bengal Government for setting up water infrastructure projects. A top-level team of the State-owned Israeli company met senior officials in the West Bengal Government in Kolkata on Monday. “The talks were positive. To begin with, we are looking at offering solutions, including technology, in the Darjeeling area,” Dr Mahesh Gandhi, Managing Director, AFII Corporate Advisors Pte Ltd , advisors to Mekorot, at a media briefing here on Tuesday.
He said the company was also exploring opportunities in Uttarakhand, Maharahstra and Sikkim. Mr Lior Frumkes, Vice President — Business Development, Mekorot, said the company had technology and expertise in the fields of water supply, quality, waste water management for agricultural use, and desalination among others. On the push for public-private partnerships in India, Mr Ofer Laufman, CEO, Mekorot, said, “Water is a national issue, not a private one. Tens Of People Arrested In East & West Azarbaijan Protesting The Drying Up Of Lake Uromieh « persianbanoo. May 22, 2012 Under increased heavy security atmosphere in East and West Azarbaijan, tens of people were arrested by police and Intelligence Ministry in the last two days. Yesterday in Tabriz, during scattered demonstrations protesting drying up of Lake Uromieh, Esrafil Omidi a post graduate student at Shahid Beheshti university in Uromieh and activists Mostafa Avazpour and Ghader Norouzi were arrested.
Also yesterday morning, former secretary of the Azerbaijani Association of Tabriz University, Afsaneh Toughi was arrested inside the university by Intelligence Ministry forces. Akbar Mohajeri, Hassan Mirzakhani and Mohamad Eskandarzadeh were among those arrested in Tabriz yesterday. Their detention location is still unknown. Security forces arrested the majority of these people by going to their homes without a warrant, performing a search of the home and confiscating personal belongings. Source: HRANA Like this: Like Loading... Tweeting Robots Monitor Water Quality in California Rivers. UC Berkeley Campus Life/Video screen capture To keep an eye on the quality of the water in California, a team from the University of California, Berkeley has developed robots that don't just swim around, they tweet their findings.
The Floating Sensor Network is a new approach to measuring water quality, ditching fixed location sensors for mobile units that can monitor a variety of locations. The team, headed by Alexandre Bayen from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) released 100 of the robots into the Sacramento River on May 9. The Sacramento-San Joaquin river system contains two thirds of the state's fresh water, the majority of Californians' drinking and irrigation supply. Because the robots, which are equipped with GPS units, float with the water (and those with propellers can move freely), they provide a more dynamic and detailed understanding of the state of the river water. 1336599095: Android drifter A61 retrieved, welcome back! 2012 - 4th Edition. The 4th edition of the UN World Water Development Report (WWDR4) The fourth edition of the World Water Development Report (WWDR4), ‘Managing Water under Uncertainty and Risk’ is a comprehensive review of the world's freshwater resources and seeks to demonstrate, among other messages, that water underpins all aspects of development, and that a coordinated approach to managing and allocating water is critical.
The Report underlines that in order to meet multiple goals water needs to be an intrinsic element in decision-making across the whole development spectrum. It was launched at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille by Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director General, and Michel Jarraud, UN-Water Chair. Download the 4th edition of the UN World Water Development Report (WWDR4) ‘Managing Water under Uncertainty and Risk’ is available in PDF and as an eBook (ePub format).
Volume 1: Managing Water under Uncertainty and Risk Volume 2: Knowledge Base Volume 3: Facing the Challenges About WWDR4 What's new. L’Ifremer étudie les champs de nodules polymétalliques. L’Atalante, navire de la flotte Ifremer©Ifremer/Michel GOUILLOU Source IFREMER La campagne océanographique franco-allemande BIONOD [1] (contraction de BIOlogie et NODules) a débuté le 27 mars à bord du navire L’Atalante de l’Ifremer. Elle se poursuivra pendant un mois et demi, jusqu’au 10 mai prochain, dans le Pacifique nord-est, dans la zone de Clarion-Clipperton, entre l’archipel d’Hawaï et la côte ouest du Mexique. La campagne BIONOD répond aux engagements de la France vis-à-vis de l’Autorité internationale des fonds marins [2] qui lui a attribué un secteur de 75 000 km2 pour l’exploration des nodules polymétalliques [3].
La campagne vise à décrire, à comprendre et à comparer la distribution des espèces dans les zones avec et sans nodules. La campagne BIONOD mobilise une trentaine de scientifiques. Concombre de mer, Psychropotes semperiana, sur un fond à nodules du Pacifique nord ©Ifremer-Nautile/Campagne Nodinaut La campagne BIONOD se déroule dans la zone en rouge © Ifremer.
California's Deadlocked Delta: Is Carbon Farming the Future? This is the third story in our three-part series on California's Delta. Tules on Twitchell Island in the Delta. (Photo: Josh Cassidy/KQED) With thousands of acres of rich farmland, the Delta has a long agricultural legacy. But farming there can be a risky business. That became a reality for farmer Rudy Mussi on the morning of June 3, 2004. Mussi was growing corn and asparagus on lower Jones Tract, an island in the Delta, 10 miles west of Stockton. "Your heart stops for a second or two and then realism sets in. How did a flood happen a on a sunny day? "Once a break occurs, you know, there's no way you're gonna stop that, not with 10 feet of water on the other side," Mussi says. The levee break on Jones Tract in 2004. It wasn't an isolated incident.
Delta Infrastructure at Risk "This is how we get ourselves in kind of an arms race between the water and the land," says Jeff Mount, professor with the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California-Davis. Farming Carbon Related. Venezuela: Floods (as of 14 May 2012) - Location Map. Methane Emissions from the Arctic Ocean. A Tour of Drought as it Unfolds Across the U.S. Last year at this time, all eyes were on Texas, where drought conditions were intensifying into what became that state’s worst single year drought on record, causing nearly $8 billion in economic losses. Recently, though, Texas has gone from famine to feast in the precipitation department, and drought concerns for the upcoming summer are focused farther to the west, as drought tightens its grip across a broad swath of the interior West and Southwest In addition to the West, drought conditions are also prevalent in the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and parts of the Northeast as well, along with a small pocket in the Upper Midwest.
In all, 56 percent of the Lower 48 states were experiencing drought conditions as of May 8, almost twice the area compared to last year at this time, according to data from the U.S. Drought Monitor. U.S. Drought Monitor issued May 8, 2012. Click on image for a larger version. Western streamflow outlook for spring/summer 2012. Drought Hits Spain's Wheat Crop. Georgian agency denies having misinformed about flood - Democracy & Freedom Watch | News. A report went out from Georgia's Agency for Emergency Situations that a river had broken out of its banks inside a city with more than a million inhabitants. Later the agency denied having said it. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.) TBILISI, DFWatch – As Georgia’s capital was drenched in rain water, and a stream flooded a district, killing five, reports went out from the national emergency agency that what caused the disaster was that the river Mtkvari had burst its banks.
Mtkvari is the largest river in the South Caucasus, carrying close to a hundred cubic meters of water per second. It would be a major natural disaster for it to break out of its banks in a city with more than a million inhabitants. Associated Press is among many reliable news agencies which reported that the Agency for Emergency Situations in Georgia explained the five deaths with the river having spilled over its banks. “The agency has not released such information officially. “That is nonsense.
“I spoke with the president too. Unsustainable water. South American drought fuels fears of food price shocks, as soya bean harvests suffer The viability of water supplies throughout key regions of China, India, Pakistan, South Africa and the US are under threat from unsustainable domestic, agricultural and industrial demands, according to a new study that maps water use down to 10km² worldwide. The growth economies of China and India, and the world’s largest economy USA are identified by risk analysis company Maplecroft, in its newly released Water Stress Index, as having vast geographical regions and sector areas where unsustainable water use is outstripping supply.
Maplecroft states that the situation so serious, it has the potential to limit economic growth by constraining business activities, as well as hampering agricultural outputs. Water stress has major implications for global supply chains, especially within the major growth economies. . © Maplecroft, 2012 Agriculture is a key driver of unsustainable water use in India.
Water India. Aswan dam. Water maps. AQUASTAT - FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture. Website updates 20/12/2016 - Since 2015, a section on "Women and irrigation" is added when updating country profiles. At present, already 53 out of the 147 country profiles available have such section included, which can be easily accessed through a dropdown menu from the "Water and gender" page. 30/11/2016 - Updated country profiles, maps and water and irrigation data are now available for an additional seven countries in Africa: Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria and United Republic of Tanzania. 10/11/2016 - To provide a quick overview of global, continental and regional values of some key variables and indicators, four summary tables showing global, continental and regional data on population, water resources, water use and irrigation have been updated. 10/08/2016 - To be able to enhance the service we provide to you, we would appreciate you taking 5 minutes of your time to respond to a quick AQUASTAT user survey. 15/12/2014 - A new "Did you know…?
" Could there be 'Water Wars' in the Future? | Geography Education. 48 hours to save our oceans. Source found for missing water in sea-level rise. The "Inconvenient Truth" Film About Water. Water Shortages May Leave Energy Producers Dying of Thirst. Despite Recent Rainy Weather, New York Faces Drought Condition. How politicians could end droughts FOREVER: But they don't want to. 13 die in Nepal flash flood. Drought hits Angola's already struggling farms. Water security: a SF&W issue for national security? Global Water Security: a US Intelligence Community Assessment (pdf. Building upon the 2012 “Global Water Security” IC Assessment.
The Water Sigils. Global Water Security: The Intelligence Community Assessment. The Coming Global Water Crisis - Stewart M. Patrick - International.