Al Jazeera English
| Jan 17, 2013
Peru is now the world's chief exporter of asparagus but the thirsty cash crop is sucking parts of the country dry. Aquifers are being drained at an alarming rate, leaving ordinary Peruvians facing water shortages and threatening to make farming im...
NTDTV
| Aug 15, 2012
A report released today by Greenpeace and the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources calculated the water consumption of China's growing coal industry and found that, by 2015, some of China's proposed coal mines and plants would ...
Ahram Online
| Aug 14, 2012
The informal settlement of Saft el Laban in Giza has become used to a lack of running water. For the last year they have only had two of hours of clean water coming out of their taps each day, but recently the situation has become even worse. Fo...
LinkAsia
| Jun 29, 2012
Major drought conditions are sweeping east Asia, hitting China and South Korea particularly hard. As South Korean broadcaster MBC reports, the water shortage in South Jeolla Province is pitting farmers against the owners of a local golf course.
Earth Focus
| Mar 3, 2011
Earth Focus speaks with Jonathan Watts, Asia environmental correspondent for UK's The Guardian about his new book "When a Billion Chinese Jump". Watts traveled more than 100,000 miles across China, looking at cancer villages, toxic air and water p...
— Jan 18 at 07:35 pm
...more time than expected. Unless it is ready before summer, people will face a severe water crisis," said ward corporator Hrudaya Ballava Samantr...
— May 21 at 12:35 am
...area, have locked their houses and moved to areas in Jamshedpur with piped water supply or to other cities in the state or Bihar. The water cris...
Water scarcity involves water stress, water shortage or deficits, and water crisis. The concept of water stress is relatively new. Water stress is the difficulty of obtaining sources of fresh water for use, because of depleting resources. A water crisis is a situation where the available potable, unpolluted water within a region is less than that region's demand.
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