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Water Demand Will ‘Outstrip Supply By 40% Within 20 Years’

February 28, 2011
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Water Demand Will ‘Outstrip Supply By 40% Within 20 Years’

$1 trillion global water market forecast for 2020; global freshwater demand expected to exceed supply by 40 percent by 2030 Famed especially for the excellence of its peacekeepers and ice hockey players, Canada’s water experts are now increasingly needed to help countries elsewhere brace for drought, flood and unsafe water problems looming on a 15 to 20 year horizon. Within a single generation, recent studies show, water demand in many countries will exceed supply...

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House GOP Attack on Public Health, Clean Air, Clean Water Benefit Big Oil & Coal

February 21, 2011
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House GOP Attack on Public Health, Clean Air, Clean Water Benefit Big Oil & Coal

Early this morning, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a funding bill thatamounts to the biggest attack on clean air and clean water in recent history. H.R. 1, the continuing resolution offered by House Republicans to keep the government funded for the rest of the fiscal year, passed by a vote of 235-189. Only three Republicans joined all the Democrats in voting no. “The U.S. House of Representatives failed to protect the public health...

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