water facts
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Website: The 3rd United Nations World Water Development Report: Water in a Changing World
www.unesco.org, April 2009 -
Water Scarcity & Climate Change: Growing Risks for Business & Investors
This Ceres/Pacific Institute report, done at the request of the Investor Network on Climate Risk, outlines the wide-ranging risks investors and companies face from water scarcity and how global climate change will heighten those risks in many parts of the world. The report makes clear that companies that treat pressing water risks as a key strategic challenge will be far better positioned in the future. Companies that continue to ignore these challenges put themselves at higher risk.
www.ceres.org, February 2009 -
Are We Running Out of Water?
Reader's Digest.com article by Joseph K. Vetter
May 2008 -
Listen: Peter Gleick Reports on a Looming Water Crisis
A MacArthur Fellow and co-founder of the Pacific Institute, Peter Gleick runs one of the nation's leading water-conservation assessment centers.
National Public Radio, Fresh Air from WHYY, November 27, 2007 -
http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/
WaterNews is published by Circle of Blue, nonprofit affiliate project of the Pacific Institute. The site is a daily extension of Circle of Blue's long-form journalistic and scientific coverage of the global freshwater crisis and its solutions -
http://water.usgs.gov/watuse/
Water usage information compiled by the United States Geological Survey.