Eco-paradises in crossfire of water scarcity fight
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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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By Larry Parsons, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Dec. 17--A long environmental battle over storm runoff into ocean waters off the Monterey Peninsula is close to over, though several local jurisdictions could still challenge details of the antipollution program.
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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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By the numbers: a snapshot of development's impact on water usage in the basin.
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By Zheng Lifei  Gu Zhaodi had never had to think about water. It was taken for granted. In fact, no one in this beautiful lake city of Wuxi had bothered to spare a thought on one of the most vital elements of life.  But all that changed dramatically overnight last week.
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The idea of destroying a  swathe of rainforest, home to hundreds of rare species, to  clear land for a sugar plantation is an environmentalist's  worst nightmare.
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A crisis decades in the making has reduced middle-class people in New Delhi, IndiaÂs richest city, to foraging for water.
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GENEVA - People are consuming the planet&#39;s resources at a rate that outstrips its capacity to support life, a global conservation group said Thursday.
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By Tim Henderson, The Miami Herald  Dec. 17--As Biscayne Landing's first two buildings undergo final preparations for what's billed as "South Florida's premier master-planned community," the massive city-sponsored development is girding for a fight over environmental cleanup.
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Environmental activist Maude Barlow believes the world is poised to experience a freshwater crisis of "monumental proportions." The Canadian author shares her views on global water use and abuse with National Geographic News.
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By Wang Ying  Large-scale algae outbreaks are once again posing a threat to the drinking water supplies from Taihu and Chaohu lakes.
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Stari Grad bay on the island of Hvar is one of the most charming resorts in Croatia. But beneath the quiet surface of the southern Adriatic an aggressive tropical algae is threatening the sea's eco-system.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM\\ Staff Writer  SANTA CLARITA -- Water agencies, developers, environmentalists and local government will sit down together this week to draft what's intended as the ultimate plan to manage the region's most precious resource: water.
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A tenth of the world&#39;s irrigated crops - everything from lettuce and tomatoes to mangoes and coconuts - are watered by sewage. And much of that sewage is raw and untreated, gushing direct from sewer pipes into fields at the fringes of the developing ...
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PARIS, Feb 1 (IPS) - Environmental and scientific experts agree that  degradation of biological diversity has reached historical  dimensions, but a North-South divide is emerging over action to  counter this crisis.
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Economic development at the expense of the environment is like grabbing a good seat in the cinema of a sinking luxury liner.  Even worse, the more rapid the development, the more damage it does to the environment.  We are heavily indebted to environment.
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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.