Market News
| Water footprint of energy | 5. abril 2011 | |||||||||
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29 March 2011
As Japan’s nuclear power plant emergency has highlighted, water is needed in copious quantities to generate energy. To mark World Water Day, Sandra Postel (National Geographic) considers the huge water footprint of... [mehr] |
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| Is Canada doing enough to conserve water? | 5. abril 2011 | |||||||||
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25 March 2011World Water Day took place this week, and public attention in Canada as in many other countries was for a time focused on what clearly is our most valuable natural resource. Canada has about nine per cent of the... [mehr] |
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| Drinking Water In Vietnam Has Excessive Arsenic | 18. enero 2011 | |||||||||
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More than a quarter of drinking wells in Vietnam's densely-populated Red River delta contain unsafe levels of arsenic that can cause cancer, neurological problems and hypertension, researchers warned on Tuesday. In a paper... [mehr] |
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| China Says Will Take 300 Years To Turn Back Deserts | 5. enero 2011 | |||||||||
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At the current rate of progress it will take 300 years to turn back China's advancing deserts, a senior official said on Tuesday, bemoaning the low level of investment in fighting a serious environmental problem. Over a quarter... [mehr] |
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| China To Spend $30 Billion On Water Conservation In 2011 | 4. enero 2011 | |||||||||
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The Chinese government is expected to spend about 200 billion yuan ($30.10 billion) on water conservation projects in 2011, a tenth more than in 2010, the state-run China Daily reported. Priority will be given to improving... [mehr] |
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