News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 106
Hydroelectric Project Threatens Chile's Lake Neltume
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Feb 06 (IPS) - "This is paradise and they want to destroy it. This has had an enormous psychological impact on us," says Guido Melinao, leader of the Mapuche indigenous community of Valeriano Cayicul, referring to the Neltume hydroelectric power plant project planned by the Spanish-Italian consortium Endesa-Enel.
The Open and Rocky Road Post-2015
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 31 (IPS) - What values does a Yemeni journalist who fuelled the Arab Spring hold in common with a former principal of the U.S. National Security Council? And how in turn will they see eye to eye with a Jordanian queen, or the president of Indonesia?
Rio Maps Flood Risk to Avert Annual Disaster
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 29 (IPS) - Hoping to prevent the tragedies that have become an annual event every rainy season, authorities in the southeastern Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro plan to require that municipal governments include environmental risk mapping in their infrastructure projects, in order to prohibit construction in vulnerable areas.
OP-ED: Weird, and Getting Weirder
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 29 (IPS) - Weird is the only way to describe January temperatures whipsawing between record warm and arctic cold over a span of a few days. Experts say that is what climate change looks like: weird, record-shattering weather.
Turning on Taps a Risky Business in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jan 28 (IPS) - For three weeks Tavonga Kwidini and his wife Maria had no tap water in their home in Glen View, one of the many dry suburbs in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.
Q&A: "Yesterday, We Had No Binding Treaty on Mercury: Now We Do"
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jan 21 (IPS) - The international community has adopted a binding treaty for reducing emissions of mercury, a poisonous heavy metal that harms human health and the ecosystems on which life depends.
'Green' Approaches to Water Gaining Ground Around World
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 18 (IPS) - After Hurricane Sandy swept through the northeast of the United States late October 2012, millions of New Yorkers were left for days without electricity. But they still had access to drinking water, thanks to New York City's reliance on protected watershed areas for potable water.
Solar-Powered Water Pumps Struggle to See the Light
- Inter Press Service
ANAND, India, Jan 16 (IPS) - When twenty-nine-year-old Kartik Wahi graduated from the Kelloggs School of Management in Chicago in 2010, he wasted no time in returning to India to self-finance a start-up company to market solar-powered irrigation pumps.
Digging for Water, But Striking Oil
- Inter Press Service
ABU DHABI, Jan 16 (IPS) - The volatile politics of the Middle East have long been dominated by the fluctuating fortunes of a single commodity: oil.
Mideast Energy Crisis Looks For Light at the End of the Tunnel
- Inter Press Service
ABU DHABI, Jan 15 (IPS) - When Jordan's Queen Rania Al Abdullah took the podium to address world political and business leaders at a back-to-back energy and water summit here, she said she was representing a country that relies on imports for over 90 percent of its energy needs.
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