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7 Dec 2020 LONDON, United Kingdom
New Tool Helps Countries Track Changes In Surface Water Supply
A new tool from the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics (ONS) will enable countries around the world keep track of changes in surface water supply.The tool uses processed imagery from the Global Surface Water Explorer dataset, developed by the United Nations, the European Commission Joint Research Centre and Google, transforming information into tables and maps, which can be used by governments to create clear measurements to show changes over time...
29 Sep 2020 PARIS, France
International Network of Basin Organisations: Webinar 13 October
Current environment crises such as wild forest fires in California and the Brazilian Pantanal, drought in the lower Mekong River, and floods in Senegal are all examples of disasters that are warnings about the dramatic consequences of climate change.Global funding to implement adaptation measures is insufficient...
2 Sep 2020 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
Latin American Countries Cooperate In Innovative Plan To Tackle Climate Change In Arid Regions
A new project was launched in August to enable people in the semiarid regions of Latin America to work together to share knowledge, address the climate crisis, and find more sustainable and humane ways to live.The DAKI-Semiárido Vivo Project (or Dryland Adaptation Knowledge Initiative), launched in August, will focus on three dry areas of Latin America most vulnerable to the effects of climate change: Gran Chaco Americano (in Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia), the Central American Dry Corridor and the semiarid region of north-eastern Brazil...
1 Sep 2020 SANA'A, Yemen
Rain And Flash Floods Leave 300,000 Homeless In Yemen
Three months of torrential rain and flash floods have left an estimated 300,000 people homeless in war-torn Yemen, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said 28 August.Many of those people newly displaced by the floods had already been forced to flee their homes because of the ongoing conflict in the country...
31 Aug 2020 MOUNTAINVIEW CA
Google Campuses Achieve Alliance For Water Stewardship Certification
Google has achieved the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) certification at its Mountain View, Calif., Los Angeles, Calif., and Dublin, Ireland campuses under the AWS Standard. Earning AWS certification for commercial office space demonstrates a company’s commitment to understanding the complex issues and opportunities within the watersheds it operates and to work with local stakeholders to achieve the five outcomes of water stewardship to include: sustainable water balance, good water quality, good water governance, the healthy status of important water-related areas (rivers, marshes, etc...
6 Jul 2020 BEIJING, China
China Releases Water From Three Gorges Dam To Alleviate Flooding As Torrential Rains Persist
China's Ministry of Water Resources upgraded its emergency response for flood control from Level Four to Level Three on 4 July, as incessant rains continue across the country. Level One is the highest level of response.Water levels in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River as well as Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake have been rising as a result of sustained rainfall...
11 Oct 2019 COLUMBIA SC
US State Greenlights Vast Google Drinking Water Extraction Plan
South Carolina on Wednesday approved allowing Google to pump nearly 550 million gallons of drinking water per year to cool its servers. The decision from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is the latest salvo in an ongoing battle over whether the tech giant should get state approval to pump from a major water source that critics say is being depleted.
26 Mar 2019 NAIROBI
Google, UNEP Partnership Will Make Water Data Globally Accessible
Water scarcity is widely considered to be the next major issue impacting the world over the coming years. One way to start tackling the problem is by getting a better understanding of current conditions. Google has partnered with UN Environment and others to provide free and open data on the natural resource around the world...
10 Sep 2018 MENLO PARK
Google Launches Water, Energy Footprint Tool
In a new interactive online tool launched today by Google, you can find out how much energy and water you’re using (and wasting) when doing the things we all do: wash our clothes, take showers, throw out spoiled foods and more. This tool helps to make two of the most basic and yet also opaque necessities of life — energy and water — a little more tangible...
3 Jul 2018 MANILA, Philippines
Climate Change Expert Challenges "Fake News" About Disappearing Philippines Cities
Reports from online "news" sources claiming that global warming will lead to seven Philippine cities disappearing underwater in a “few” or “several” years have been challenged by a leading Philippine climate change expert, AFP reports, saying that Asian Development Bank (ADB) research cited in the posts does not support the dramatic claim, nor does the report used to guide global climate policies...
24 Apr 2018 WARRENTON, VA
Now It’s The Water – Porn Nexus
Mashable reports that pornography hub RedTube hopes to encourage people to think about the water crisis with its "Save Water Challenge." An app available on Google Play — and out soon on iOS — tracks the length of your daily showers. The shorter the shower, the more points you'll get. If you meet a certain number of points, RedTube will award you with a week of its premium subscription so that you can watch all the porn you want...
23 Aug 2017 RENO NV
Where Will Tesla Get Its Water?
The Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, or TRIC, sprawls across 107,000 acres of Storey County, a wedge of desert mountains and plains just east of the Reno metropolitan area. Tesla, Google, Ebay and Wal-Mart are some of the corporate luminaries that have bought in, with 11 million sq ft of pancake-flat industrial buildings already occupied...