Syrian protesters hit the streets in mid-January in the al-Hasakeh region of northeast Syria around repeated water shortages caused by outages at the Allouk pumping station, with hundreds of demonstrators blaming Turkish occupying forces for repeated water shutoffs.
<p>The former Governor of the US State of Michigan is among a group of 9 defendants facing criminal charges following a new investigation into the Flint water scandal.</p><p>Rick Synder, along with former Flint Public Works director Howard Croft have each been charged with two counts of wilful neglect of duty over the fatal contamination of Flint’s water system in 2014.</p><p><a href="http://ooska-old.local/search/site/flint?solrsort=ds_created%20desc">
<p>The United Nations Envrionment Programme (UNEP) has called on the international community to step up its work in nature-based solutions (NbS) to facilitate adaptation to climate change and water hazards in developing countries.<!--break--></p><p>The <a href="http://calls on the international community to step up its work in nature-based solutions (NbS) to facilitate adaptation to climate change in developing countries.">UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2020</a> acknowledges that NbS are increasingly recognised as particul
The rapid proliferation of cryptocurrencies in recent years (with Bitcoin the most prominent) is raising environmental concerns, and water resources deployed for hydropower are becoming central to the discourse.
Bitcoin may exist purely in the digital world, but the process that supports it is extremely energy intensive. The intentionally complex public ledger system used for verifying the hundreds of thousands of bitcoin transactions conducted every day is known as the blockchain. And the work done to add entries to it is carried out by so-called miners.
<p>The government of Iraq has warned that the country could face a water crisis in the absence of a water quota deal with Turkey, which faces its own water shortage challenges.<!--break--></p><p>Media in the region are quoting concerns expressed by Iraq’s water resources minister Medhi Rashid Al-Hamdani in January following recent talks with Turkey on water resources from the Tigris River, one of Iraq’s primary water sources.
<p>A broad coalition of pressure groups delivered <a href="https://foodandwaterwatch.org/sites/default/files/final_biden_shutoffs_… letter</a> to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris a week before their inauguration urging them to use their executive powers to implement a nationwide moratorium on utility shutoffs on day one of their administration.<!--break--></p><p>The No Shutoffs Coalition of more than 600 utility-justice, environmental, racial-justic
<p>Women and girls in rural sub-Saharn Africa can benefit from up to 32 hours more time per month with availability of piped water supplies closer to home.</p><p>This extra time dramatically improves the lives of women and girls, while also improving economic opportunities, food security and well-being for entire households, according to new research.<!--break--></p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953620308
Rising global temperatures could result in a startling increase in frequent and severe droughts and water scarcity, affecting food security and escalation in conflict and human migration according to new research.
<p>In a January announcement at the the "One Planet Summit" for biodiversity, President of France Emmanuel Macron committed to a $14 Billion USD grant to scale up work on the Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative.<!--break--></p><p>The GGW, which was established in 2007, is Africa’s flagship initiative to tackle climate change, desertification and land degradation across the Sahel region - which covers the land surrounding the Sahara Desert in Africa.</p><p>The World Bank has also pledged in a statement made at the One Planet Summit, that they would
<p>Peru’s Ministry of Energy and Mines is currently working on a report to overrule Supreme Decrees which allowed Nuevo Arcoiris S.A.C, the Peruvian subsidiary of Canadian Tesoro Mineral Corpto acquire and hold mineral and other related exploration rights.</p><p>The Supreme Decrees not only grant the company mineral rights but also several other related rights, including water rights.<!--break--></p><p>The Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines granted Supreme Decrees 027-2020-EM and 028-2020-EM on December 10, 2020, giving the company permission to conduc