News: Most wars occur in earth's richest biological regions

A new study published by the scientific journal Conservation Biology found that more than 80 percent of the world’s major armed conflicts from 1950-2000 occurred in regions identified as the most biologically diverse and threatened places on Earth.

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News: Turkey's Euphrates and Tigris rivers significant resources for Iraq

The World Bulletin reports that the Iraqi Minister of Water Resources Latif Rashid said that Turkey's Turkey's Firat (Euphrates) and Dicle (Tigris) rivers were two significant water resources for his country.

Learn the basics about the "Land Between the Rivers" at MSN Encarta.

News: The Colorado River's Mega-drought

Science Daily describes an epic drought during the mid-1100s that dwarfs any drought previously documented for a region that includes areas of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.

The data from Meko et al can be found here.

Video: Are we running dry?

This documentary chronicles the use of water in the southwestern U.S. and ultimately, asks the question, "Are We Running Dry". This compelling program, narrated by Jane Seymour, takes a serious look at water policy in the Southwest and what changes may be in store in the future.

NY Times: Water Crisis in India

In Teeming India, Water Crisis Means Dry Pipes and Foul Sludge
By SOMINI SENGUPTA

A crisis decades in the making has reduced middle-class people in New Delhi to foraging for water.

Parched China to slash water consumption by 60%

As rivers run dry and fields turn to dust, China has announced dramatic plans to cut water use by industry and agriculture.

Water resources minister Chen Lei said it would cut the amount of water needed to produce each dollar of GDP by 60% by 2020. With the economy on course to grow by 60% by then, that effectively means it wants to consume no more water then than today.

The announcement suggests that the government has finally decided that it cannot rely on "supply-side" solutions to water shortages, like the $60-billion south-north water transfer scheme, which is aimed at watering the arid north with water from the giant Yangtze river in the south.

It comes after China's worst drought in half a century, and increased water shortages caused by industrial pollution that makes river water unfit for drinking, even after treatment.

 Read the World Watch Institute's special report on China.

Media: Flow for the Love of Water

Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.

Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.

http://www.flowthefilm.com/