Water Protection is 'the Ultimate Fight'
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By Gale Courey Toensing, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y.  Jun. 20--UNITED NATIONS -- Of the dozens of recommendations submitted to  the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in May, one of the most  universal and compelling was a call for the protection of water.
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Officials in Arkansas and Oklahoma say they are having trouble working on plans to protect the Illinois River watershed because of a pending lawsuit over water quality.
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By DIRK MEISSNER  TELKWA, B.C. (CP) - A forest fire crew battled rising flood waters rather than flames Thursday as northern British Columbians fought feverishly to hold back rising flood waters near Smithers.
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Communities worldwide are finding ingenious ways of purifying water and getting the most out of their supplies.
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By Heath, David  Seagrasses, an ecologically important group of flowering plants that have adapted to life submerged in seawater, are in dire need of a targeted global conservation effort to protect them and lhc services they provide, according to an international team of scientists.
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The growing confrontation promises to be an epic business battle.
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The risk of wars being fought over water is rising because of explosive global population growth and widespread complacency, scientists said on Friday.
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Assembly member Huw Lewis is demanding answers and assurances from Welsh Water following a river chemical spillage.   A death toll of around 1,000 fish was expected after three tonnes of aluminium sulphate leaked into the Taf Fechan from Pontsticill water treatment works on August 13.
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By Dahleen Glanton, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 19--ATLANTA -- North and South Carolina are fighting over a river.  In Tennessee, springs are drying up, jeopardizing production of Jack Daniel's  whiskey. The mayor of Los Angeles is asking residents to take shorter showers.
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Delicate wetlands, coasts and wildlife   sanctuaries could be ravaged as part of a struggle to stretch   the world's water supplies, with the worst damage foreseen in   poor countries.
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It is safe to say that a world without safe, abundant and easily accessible water is hard for most Americans to imagine. The same goes for life without private, relatively clean places in which to go to the toilet.
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By Laura McCandlish, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 4--Summit faces issue of water vs.
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Barriers such as coastal mangrove forests and coral reefs saved lives by deflecting Asia's tsunami and governments should protect such natural bulwarks against the wrath of the sea, a leading environmental group said on Tuesday.
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The Blackwater founder defends himself-and his company.
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By Diane Mastrull, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Sep. 24--If the region has a prayer of controlling flooding, communities and the developers who build in them must embrace the new technologies of storm-water management.   Experts have made that point repeatedly in recent years.
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According to officials in the state of Georgia, one solution to a drought gripping the normally soggy Southeast is to take up the battle cry of "Man versus Mussel."
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 24--LOWER ARKANSAS Valley Water Conservancy District officials are on the right track, demonstrating leadership and independence in their quest to protect the region's rural water supplies from being lost to the urban Front Range.