Scientists Say Risk of Water Wars Rising
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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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A Fiji islander frets about rising sea levels, while villagers cope with the destruction of mangrove swamps in India, and a Nepalese Sherpa fears his mountain valley will be flooded by melting glacier runoff high in the
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Kevin Costner&#39;s Water World might have bombed at the box office, but the real stuff is all set to force-grab world attention. The most comprehensive scientific report to date on global warming conducted by
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An international scientific report warns of floods, famine and global water scarcity. Sound familiar? But the government has yet to edit before it's presented in April in Brussels. By the Associated Press.
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By Greg Lavine, The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.  Feb. 21--A new National Academy of Sciences report indicates that more  droughts and reduced flow of the Colorado River are problems that water  managers and scientists need to plan for now.
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Certain regions of Japan have begun taking precautionary measures in light of a growing water shortage across the Asian nation.
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By Mike TaugherSTAFF  An environmental crisis could disrupt water supplies throughout California for the first time since the early 1990s, threatening to end the long cease-fire in the state's water wars.
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To make matters worse in South Asia, the disaster zone is now being threatened with outbreaks of disease. The World Health Organization is warning that if fresh water and medicine
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Canadian researchers say they've discovered an unanticipated way in which freshwater fish might respond to water diversion and climate change.
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MADRID, Sep 3 (IPS) - While in other parts of the world, like the Middle   East, the struggle over water sources fuels armed conflicts, a  political war  is being waged in Spain over the same question.
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Recent storms, droughts and heat waves are probably being caused by global warming, which means the effects of climate change are coming faster than anyone had feared, climate experts said on Thursday.
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It hardly seems fair, but new research suggests that water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators may harm their species more than help.
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Scientists say they understand more about how cholera - a threat after Asia's tsunami - spreads.
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China faces a higher risk of natural disasters including floods and drought this year, according to a top official.  Water Resources Vice-Minister E Jingping told local authorities to prepare for torrential floods, typhoons and continued drought.
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Scientists are claiming that the unprecedented ferocity and frequency of the hurricanes that have battered the Caribbean this year can be blamed on one factor: the unexpectedly warm water that has been building up in the Atlantic over the past year.
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By JOHN FLECK Journal Staff Writer  The Colorado River, water lifeline of the West, is more vulnerable to deep and long-lasting droughts than was previously thought, according to a sweeping new scientific report.
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Scientists warned Tuesday that a long-term increase in global temperature of 3.5 degrees could threaten Latin American water supplies, reduce food yields in Asia and result in a rise in extreme weather conditions in the Caribbean.