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Source: Kate Galbraith – NY Times

MIDLAND — David Rosen, a self-employed geologist, said he was relieved when he looked at his water bill for April. The drought-stricken city of Midland had just slapped a steep rate increase on heavy water users, and Mr. Rosen had avoided a big charge by curtailing his sprinkler use.

“I was watering like crazy in March to beat the price increase,” he said as he sat in his living room on a rare rainy day. Read More >

Christopher Lord

In Tamashek, the language of the Tuareg nomads who wander the Sahara, aman iman means “water is life”. The two words sound so similar, a sign of just how much survival rests on finding water in this hot, harsh environment.

A new exhibition at Qasr Al Hosn Cultural Quarter Hall in Abu Dhabi, opening tonight, attempts to underscore that fragile relationship through more than 90 hands-on exhibits and inspiring, interactive models.

Water: H2O=Life was originally conceived in New York’s American Museum Read More >

$4 billion seismic upgrade to Hetch Hetchy water system at core of water rate increases.
By Aaron Selverston

It’s official: water and refuse rates are about to skyrocket in Palo Alto, largely due to a massive, once-in-a-century overhaul of the Hetch Hetchy water system and multi-million dollar budget shortfalls.

The Palo Alto City Council voted unanimously tonight to adopt plans offered by the City Utility to close projected gaps in the Water Fund and Refuse Fund of $3.4 million and $3.7 million, Read More >

BEIJING, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) — Vice President Xi Jinping on Sunday called for water-saving awareness in the society and innovation in water conservation across the country.

Xi attended an activity in Beijing to mark this year’s National Science Popularization Day and visited an exhibition on water-saving technologies.

“The per capita availability of water resources in China is quite small, so water conservation is the principal solution to the country’s water resources issue,” Xi said.

Visiting the display of scientific items made or invented Read More >

Water, being one of the most vital elements for every living thing’s survival, had continually become scarce due to mankind’s abuse over nature. Now, the very main result of our misconduct is water scarcity, or more commonly known as drought. Well, not all regions or places all over the world experience tremendous scarcity of water. There are just some parts of the world that are unfortunate to have experienced such but on the other hand, lucky since they have discovered Read More >

Our statewide poll of Hispanic New Mexico voters across party lines showed that by and large, Hispanics have a strong conservation ethic and are very concerned about the health of our state’s environment

As a Native New Mexican who is deeply concerned about the future of our state’s precious land and water resources, I was buoyed to learn that I was not alone.

Last week, my organization received the results of a poll we commissioned to study Hispanic New Mexican attitudes about Read More >

The preference for government mandates reinforces the idea that water is not like other goods.

When on Aug. 15 Houston’s mayor announced restrictions on its outdoor water use, the city joined 795 other Texas water systems that are cutting down on water consumption in response to a persistent 10-month drought in the state.

The conservation mandate is the latest in a series of drought policies in Texas that have instituted water restrictions instead of price mechanisms, and raised questions over the most Read More >

Bongani Nkosi

It has become a “moral imperative” for major businesses operating in South Africa to adopt water saving schemes for their buildings, thereby helping the country sustain the declining resource.

CEO of car rental company Avis, Wayne Duvenage, did not mince his words at the Sustainable Water Resource Conference and Exhibition. The event, held in Kempton Park on 16 and 17 August, was attended by leading water experts and businesspeople and supported by the International Marketing Council of South Africa Read More >

By P.J. LASSEK World Staff Writer
Tulsa World News

Tulsa’s water usage spiked on Saturday shattering two records causing city officials Monday to prepare for possible voluntary rationing if the trend continues.

It takes two consecutive days of using 206 million gallons of water per day – or 94 percent of capacity – to enact water conservation efforts, said Clayton Edwards, director of the Water and Sewer Department.

Edwards said that Saturday’s water usage of 204 mgd broke the record of 190.5 mgd Read More >

BY HENRY BREAN
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Sure, it destroyed property values and put thousands of people out of work, but the collapse of the local construction market wasn’t all bad. At least it saved some water.

When builders stopped building, they also stopped dumping billions of gallons of water a year onto the ground to compact soil and control dust.

Figures from the Las Vegas Valley Water District chart the impact nicely. During fiscal year 2002, when local water use hit an all-time high, Read More >