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Arabs and Water Stress

Posted By goopsgoops 3261 days ago in Planning and Management

Arab nations facing water stress within 20 years

Severe water stress will hit 17 of the 22 Arab countries within two decades, a new report by environment experts has warned.

The report, Arab Environment: Future Challenges, has called on Arab states to adopt policies that put an end to wasteful use of water and pressed for greater efforts to confront desertification, considered the most pres http://www.arabianbusiness.com -

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World's water dries up

Posted By kevinthemann 3253 days ago in Planning and Management

South Africans should brace themselves for a severely water-stressed future, a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report on the world's ecological footprint warned this week.

The influential international report has been released every two years for the past decade.

In 1996 it warned that the world was heading for ecological disaster. The latest report paints an even bleaker picture of the future if http://www.mg.co.za -

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World Water Stress Map

Posted By Waterlover 3208 days ago in Planning and Management

This map shows the Water Stress Index (Water Withdrawal to Water Availability Ratio) for different regions of the world. http://www.worldwatercouncil.org -

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New study links western tree mortality to warming temperatures, water stress

Posted By kevesha 3175 days ago in Hydrology

A new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey and involving the University of Colorado at Boulder indicates tree deaths in the West's old-growth forests have more than doubled in recent decades, likely from regional warming and related drought conditions.

The study, published in the Jan. 23 issue of Science, documented tree deaths in all tree sizes in the West located at varying elevations, in http://www.brightsurf.com -

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Africa Facing Greater "Water Stress", Says UN

Posted By macy 3077 days ago in Planning and Management

Rising demand from growing populations, changes in food consumption and increased energy production, including biofuels, is badly straining the world's water resources, warns the UN's third World Water Development Report. By 2030, according to the March report, nearly 50 per cent of the world's population will be living in areas of high "water stress," in which demand far exceeds the supply of wa http://allafrica.com -

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Pakistan fast moving from being a water-stressed country to water-scarce one

Posted By britneyg 3026 days ago in Planning and Management

United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Regional Project Director, Shafqat Niaz Kang, has said, that Pakistan is facing a severe water shortage, and is fast moving from being a water-stressed country to a water-scarce country, mainly due to its high population growth.

Kang expressed his views at a one-day training workshop of the local government staff organised by the UNDP, Pakistan Council http://www.sindhtoday.net -

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Lab on a chip to measure water stress in plants

Posted By planetearth 3010 days ago in Miscellaneous

Fifteen years ago, when Alan Lakso first sought to enlist Cornell's nanofabrication laboratory to develop a tiny sensor that would measure water stress in grapevines, the horticultural sciences professor ended up back at the drawing board. http://www.physorg.com -

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Mapping future water stress

Posted By maggie 2989 days ago in Miscellaneous

These projections of per-capita water availability were made by Martina Floerke and colleagues at the University of Kassel in Germany.

They combined different types of forecast to obtain their results. A computer model of climate change developed by the UK Met Office Hadley Centre generates projections of how temperatures and rainfall are likely to change in the future.

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Adapting to climate-change induced water stress in the Nile Basin

Posted By Ali.Gohari 1895 days ago in Planning and Management

This summary report addresses the need for national and intergovernmental projects to reduce the impact of climate change on the Nile River basin. It indicates that any future changes in water quantity and quality caused by climate change will have a negative impact on economies, environment, and livelihoods in the Nile region. http://www.preventionweb.net -

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