Water scarcities emerge in Middle East, southwestern USA and northern Mexico. With a combination of over-use and growing climate change effects causing the Jordan River to dwindle to a trickle, people in Syria, Israel and Jordan are suffering as their governments debate water rights.
Residents of Jordan often have the resource available only twice a week. Director of environmental organization Friends of the Earth Middle East, Gidon Bromberg, stated, “The river's almost been destroyed because of the ...competition.”
Meanwhile, Lake Mead, which provides water to northern Mexico and the southwestern US states of Arizona, Nevada and California, has declined to 40% of capacity, the lowest since the reservoir was created in the 1930s.
Having just endured an 11-year drought, the lake dropped another 15 feet in the past five months. US scientist and Lake Mead expert Dr. Tim Barnett, who forecast two years ago that the giant reservoir could run dry by 2021, stated, "It's a clear warning." Our appreciation, Mr. Bromberg, Dr. Barnett and colleagues for your work in alerting us to alarming scarcity of water across the globe. Let us join in quickly adopting more conserving and considerate practices as we also strive for planet-cooling measures to reverse climate change.
During an August 2009 videoconference in Thailand, Supreme Master China Hai spoke with concern over such crises, highlighting the importance of more conscientious stewardship of our world’s limited resources.
Supreme Master China Hai: We have over six billion people in this world and the sources of groundwater for wells, which supports half of our world population, are dying, drying up.
And the top ten global river systems, drying or ebbing away. And three billion people are short of water. How many more, I don’t know, how many more of suffering people are we waiting before we take action?
Please do it now! Just be veg.
Stop the meat, dairy, fish industry. Be benevolent. Create a merciful energy that will envelop our world, that will emit mercy, love, protection for us and our children on this planet. Please take action now. Very simple. Just be veg.
http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-08-14/water-feud-middle-east.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/08/12/12greenwire-lake-meads-water-level-plunges-as-11-year-drou-29594.htmlExtra NewsJoining a Russian-German expedition investigating regional climate change in Siberia, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin affirms the importance of global warming as he pledges additional funding to better understand its impact.
http://www.mn.ru/politics/20100824/188002588.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i4Lol3SqVnb0GFEt8rigt2Hld4QA http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/08/23/16939133.html http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20100824/160322098_7.htmlIn Taipei, Formosa (Taiwan) more than 200 companies collectively offer over 10,000 green employment opportunities in the island’s first-ever job fair for the alternative energy industry.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/asia/b-taiwan/2010/08/29/270549/Taiwans-first.htm http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?ID=201008280018&Type=aECO The United Nations Environment Program launches an online resource center offering guidelines and training materials to conduct humanitarian and relief activities with greater consideration for conserving resources and the environment.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=35662&Cr=humanitarian&Cr1=http://postconflict.unep.ch/humanitarianaction/
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