Putting Water Back in Public Hands - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq9yqR-codY
TheRealNews TRNN Published on 24 Apr 2013
Nick Buxton: Paris and other cities have remunicipalised water that had been privatized saving users money and introducing more democracy and transparency
via http://02mydafsoup-01.soup.io/post/310096772/Putting-Water-Back-in-Public-Hands
#water #eau #Wasser #privatization #privatisation #Privatisierung #Remunicipalisation #Verstaatlichung
Où en est la situation de l’eau dans le monde arabe ?
http://menablog.banquemondiale.org/l-eau-dans-le-monde-arabe
Une étude inédite parue le mois dernier dans la revue Water Resources Research se penche sur la baisse des réserves d’eau douce au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord. Élaborée conjointement par la NASA et l’université UC Irvine, elle présente une série de statistiques alarmantes sur l’ampleur et le rythme de l’amenuisement des réserves.
Je n’avais encore jamais vu cette utilisation de la barre de défilement... c’est marrant et assez parlant. A suivre
Merci @alicedbt
@reka tu n’avais pas vu le long reportage du NYT sur l’avalanche de Tunnel Creek, signalé par @Fil http://seenthis.net/messages/105919
C’était moins systématique, mais néanmoins très impressionnant, notamment dans la partie 3, le suivi de la descente en parallèle, texte et localisation photo.
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=descent-begins
@simplicissimus sur le site du NYT, je n’arrive pas à faire marcher correctement les films/animations. Sauf un seul. Mais il ne se pilote pas grâce à la barre de défilement. Cela dit, oui, c’est en effet très impressionnant...
Il faut
1. avoir une configuration musclée (en particulier la première animation est vraiment lourde)
2. ET être patient.
Si tu as vu la descente (partie 3), c’est, amha, le plus intéressant (surtout pour un cartographe ;-)
South Sudan to join Entebbe Agreement
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/south-sudan-join-entebbe-agreement
gypt, which receives the largest portion of the Nile’s water, has rejected any deals that do not preserve its historic rights.
Egypt’s share of Nile waters stand at 51 billion square meters annually, according to a deal signed with Sudan on 1959, which gives the latter 18 billion square meters of water per year.
#Egypt #Nile #waterissue
World Bank says Red-Dead project feasible | The Jordan Times
http://jordantimes.com/world-bank-says-red-dead-project-feasible
The Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Project is feasible, according to a World Bank study, but it will have manageable social and environmental effects.
Une conclusion inverse de la Banque aurait été étonnante. On est assuré de voir qu’elle pense que les effets seront gérables...
Voir les études sur le site de la Banque
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTREDSEADEADSEA/Resources/Feasibility_Study_Report_Summary_EN.pdf
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTREDSEADEADSEA/Resources/Environmental_and_Social_Assessment_Summary_EN.pdf
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTREDSEADEADSEA/Resources/Study_of_Alternatives_Report_EN.pdf
#Red-Dead-Sea-water-conveyance-project #Jordan #water #Palestine #Israel #Red-Dead
World’s #water footprint linked to free trade
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/02/world%e2%80%99s-water-footprint-linked-to-free-trade.html
Researchers from the Netherlands have quantified and mapped the global water footprint, highlighting how patterns in international commerce create disparities in water use. The new study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, presents a spatial analysis of water consumption and pollution based on worldwide trade indicators, demographic data and water-usage statistics.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/files/2012/02/PNAS_fig2_water_map.jpg
#eau #cartographie #compliqué #cdp
The New Geopolitics of Food - By Lester R. Brown | Foreign Policy
►http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/25/the_new_geopolitics_of_food
the world is losing its ability to soften the effect of shortages. In response to previous price surges, the United States, the world’s largest grain producer, was effectively able to steer the world away from potential catastrophe. (...) We can’t do that anymore; the safety cushion is gone.
That’s why the food crisis of 2011 is for real, and why it may bring with it yet more bread riots cum political revolutions. What if the upheavals that greeted dictators Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, and Muammar al-Qaddafi in Libya (a country that imports 90 percent of its grain) are not the end of the story, but the beginning of it?
lecture recommandée !
Most of these land acquisitions are in #Africa, where some governments lease cropland for less than $1 per acre per year. Among the principal destinations were #Ethiopia and #Sudan, countries where millions of people are being sustained with food from the U.N. World Food Program. That the governments of these two countries are willing to sell land to foreign interests when their own people are hungry is a sad commentary on their leadership.
By the end of 2009, hundreds of land acquisition deals had been negotiated, some of them exceeding a million acres. A 2010 World Bank analysis of these “land grabs” reported that a total of nearly 140 million acres were involved — an area that exceeds the cropland devoted to corn and wheat combined in the United States. Such acquisitions also typically involve #water rights, meaning that land grabs potentially affect all downstream countries as well. Any water extracted from the upper Nile River basin to irrigate crops in Ethiopia or Sudan, for instance, will now not reach #Egypt, upending the delicate water politics of the Nile by adding new countries with which Egypt must negotiate.
La #Chine connaît quelques soucis #écologiques :
1. Air #pollution now the worst on record — Shanghai Daily
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/Metro/2011/05/04/Air+pollution+now+the+worst+on+record
SHANGHAI is experiencing its worst level of pollution to date with yesterday’s recorded air quality again at the top of the scale
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/NewsImage/2011/2011-05/2011-05-04/20110504_470566_01.jpg
2. Drought threatens grain production — Shanghai Daily
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/National/2011/05/04/Drought%2Bthreatens%2Bgrain%2Bproduction
National
ALTHOUGH renowned as the “land of a thousand lakes,” central China’s Hubei Province has been hit by a spring drought that has hit grain production and disrupted drinking #water supplies.
Why [#USA] Might Fight, 2011 Edition NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/12/weekinreview/12shanker.html
Rare #minerals. #Food and #water. Arable #soil. Air-cleansing #forests.
In the intellectual heart of the American #military and policy-making world, these are emerging not just as environmental issues, but as the potential stuff of conflict in the 21st century.
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