This is done via wealthy, mostly Western, nations manufacturing water-intensive products in poor countries. For example, it takes 30 liters of water to make a cup of tea in the UK. Of course, no one drinks a 30 liter cup of tea, not literally anyway.
New approaches to sustainable agriculture are having a major impact on global land and water degradation, according to a senior IWMI fellow Dr Andrew Noble, but the world still faces an unprecedented challenge to its natural systems through the neglect…
Forget terrorism, nuclear proliferation and economic depression, the biggest threat to international peace and prosperity might just be that empty water bottle you’re holding. Last Tuesday, the Inter Action Council (IAC), a group of 40 prominent form…
Kusum Athukorala, Chair of NetWater and the Sri Lanka Water Partnership, is the recipient of the ‘Women in Water 2012’ award by the International Water Association (IWA). The award, presented on September 19, 2012, at the World Water Congress held …
World Water Week 2012, which is held annually in Stockholm, this year focused on water and food security, and more specifically on the problem of food waste.
The official report Feeding a thirsty world: challenges and opportunities for a water and food…
