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We set up this blog to discuss issues surrounding universal access to safe, physically accessible, sufficient and affordable clean water. These issues include, but are not limited to: 1) whether access to clean water should be enshrined as a fundamental human right; 2) how to respond to the increasingly prevalent treatment of water as a commodity rather than a public good (corporate social responsibility and water); 3) clean water as global health issue; 4) clean water as a poverty issue; 5) clean water as a global security issue; 6) clean water as a gender issue.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Media coverage of water issues (June 2008)

When it rains it pours, and that is appropos of recent media coverage of water issues. A sampling includes:


  • Special Report: The Global Freshwater Crisis and the Quest for Solutions, American Prospect, June 2008
http://www.prospect.org/cs/special_report


  • Susan Berfield, There Will Be Water, Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_25/b4089040017753.htm?chan=magazine+channel_top+stories

  • Elisabeth Rosenthal, In Spain, Water is the New Battleground, New York Times, June 3, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/world/europe/03dry.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=spain+water&st=nyt&oref=slogin

  • Sabrina Tavernise, Old Farming Habits Leave Uzbekistan a Legacy of Salt, New York Times, June 15, 2008
Cotton is king in Uzbekistan and salinity is rising in irrigated land and the Aral Sea is drying up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/world/asia/15uzbek.html


  • Elizabeth Royte, Book review of BOTTLEMANIA How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It, New York Times, June 15, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/books/review/Margonelli-t.html?ex=1214193600&en=816d5bfaae0d0304&ei=5070&emc=eta1
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