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	<title>International Water Law Project Blog &#187; Water Crisis</title>
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		<title>The Future of Africa’s Water Security</title>
		<link>http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2012/05/27/the-future-of-africas-water-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 02:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Eckstein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transboundary Aquifers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, the BBC reported (here) on vast reservoirs of ground water resources underlying the African continent and the critical use that this water could have for populations now and in the future. While the so-called “discovery” of this water wealth may be questionable (see WaterWired’s Michael Campana explaining what we already knew here), the resurgence in interest in fresh water for Africa is a critical development in itself.]]></description>
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		<title>Groundwater depletion rate accelerating worldwide</title>
		<link>http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2010/09/24/groundwater-depletion-rate-accelerating-worldwide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2010/09/24/groundwater-depletion-rate-accelerating-worldwide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Eckstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Water Crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a connection that may not be so obvious &#8211; accelerating ground water depletion worldwide is adding to sea level rise. That is the finding of a forthcoming study &#8211; A Worldwide View of Groundwater Depletion by Dr. Marc Bierkens of Utrecht University &#8211; slated for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terry Spragg Comments on Water, Peace and the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2009/07/29/terry-spragg-comments-on-water-peace-and-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Eckstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Terry Spragg, inventor of the Spraggbag, sent me an e-mail responding to my previous posting on Water, Peace and the Middle East. I thought it worth sharing.]]></description>
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		<title>Water, Peace and the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2009/07/23/water-peace-and-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2009/07/23/water-peace-and-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Eckstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent New York Times Op-Ed, Stanley A. Weiss offers a grave perspective of the water situation in the Middle East. He writes that “the region is headed toward a water calamity that could overwhelm all efforts at peace.” Ominous words, but sadly, true.]]></description>
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		<title>Bond Fights Evil Corporate Water Company</title>
		<link>http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2009/05/05/bond-fights-evil-corporate-water-company/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2009/05/05/bond-fights-evil-corporate-water-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 18:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Eckstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I cannot say that such possibilities do not concern me or that all corporations working in the water sector have evil intent. Yet, unregulated private ownership of one of the most important components of life is quite troubling.]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Gleick Joins the Blogging World</title>
		<link>http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2009/04/28/peter-gleick-joins-the-blogging-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2009/04/28/peter-gleick-joins-the-blogging-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Eckstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Resources & Information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Gleick, renown water policy wonk and President/co-founder of the Pacific Institute, has joined the blogging world.]]></description>
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		<title>Global River Flows Decline</title>
		<link>http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2009/04/23/global-river-flows-decline/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2009/04/23/global-river-flows-decline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Eckstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transboundary Rivers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Christian Science Monitor Discoveries Blog has an interesting article on the global decline of river flows.  “Too many ’straws’ sucking water out of the Colorado River” describes how by 2050, the Colorado River be unable to live up to its current allocation scheme 60-90 percent of the time]]></description>
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		<title>Water marketing vs. human rights</title>
		<link>http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2009/04/18/water-marketing-vs-human-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2009/04/18/water-marketing-vs-human-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Eckstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water and Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two recent articles in The Economist – Water: Sin aqua non and Water rights: Awash in waste – suggest that the solution to world’s water problem is to improve efficiency. The articles explain, rightly, that “there is, globally, no shortage of water” and point at wasteful practices, especially in the agricultural sector, as a chief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPI – “Water crisis rocks LA, Mexico City; who&#8217;s next?”</title>
		<link>http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2009/04/13/upi-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%9cwater-crisis-rocks-la-mexico-city-whos-next%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/2009/04/13/upi-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%9cwater-crisis-rocks-la-mexico-city-whos-next%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Eckstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water Crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[UPI recently reported that major cities around the world, including Mexico City and Los Angeles, are suffering from severe water crises. Nothing new here. What caught my attention is the one-liner: “Almost no one in the United States &#8212; or anywhere else in the industrialized world &#8212; takes the crisis seriously or realizes how directly [...]]]></description>
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