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Beavers offer lessons about managing water in a changing climate, whether the challenge is drought or floods

January 22, 2022

Beavers offer lessons about managing water in a changing climate, whether the challenge is drought or floods It’s no accident that both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology claim the beaver (Castor canadensis) as their mascots. Renowned engineers, beavers seem able to dam any stream, building structures with logs and mud that can flood […]

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10 Critical Water Scarcity Facts We Must Not Ignore

January 21, 2020

10 Critical Water Scarcity Facts We Must Not Ignore Why is water scarcity a legitimate concern? It is true that the hydrologic cycle, the process in which the earth circulates water throughout its ecosystems, is a closed-loop cycle that neither adds nor takes away water. In theory, the amount of water on earth will always […]

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Exposing Africa’s Manmade Water Crisis

February 21, 2018

Exposing Africa’s Manmade Water Crisis The imminent shutdown of Cape Town’s piped water network should serve as a wake-up call for all of Africa to overhaul urban water-management systems. Unfortunately, like Africa’s water resources themselves, Cape Town’s crisis seems likely to be wasted. About a decade ago, at a meeting of South African mayors convened […]

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California Nightmare: Not Progressive Anymore

June 4, 2016

California Nightmare: Not Progressive Anymore Water management is hardly progressive in California these days. Photo: roam and shoot/Flickr CC. If one more Californian tells me how “progressive” California is, I am going to scream. “Progressivism” is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems that were introduced to America by industrialization. […]

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Who Will Control The World’s Water: Governments Or Corporations?

April 10, 2015

Who Will Control The World’s Water: Governments Or Corporations? Water is perhaps the world’s most important resource, and one of the most common resources. For decades water was regarded as a common good, and it was plentiful enough that in most parts of the world there was little money to be made off of it. […]

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