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Deadliest Deluge Ever
The most devastating floods have occured on the Yellow River in China. In 1887, some 900,000 lives were lost and in 1938, the casualty topped 870,000. In each of 1911, 1931 and 1935 at least 100,000 lives were lost in the Yangtze River Basin in China
Source: Environment Canada' s Freshwater website
Aral is Now a Toxic Sea
The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth largest lake; now it's the site of aquatic ruin. It's lost two-thirds of its surface area, some 60,000 fishing jobs have been wiped out, and people living in the salty and toxic surroundings suffer from a variety of ailments.
Source: Environment Canada’s Freshwater Website
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Scientists Call for Ways to Reinforce Lake Sarez
BISHKEK, Kyrgyz Republic (Asia Water Wire) - A precariously located mountain lake in the Tajik highlands has become a constant source of fear for residents of four Central Asian states.
Scientists from Russia and Uzbekistan say the right bank of Lake Sarez in Tajikistan - formed after an earthquake in the early 1900s -- is geologically unstable and may not withstand another tremor or an increase in water level.
Northern Mine Switching to Water
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines (Asia Water Wire) - In this mountain resort town, a mining town during the U.S. colonial era, water has become such a precious commodity that one of the biggest gold mines here is switching from producing gold to water.
Benguet Corp Inc. (BCI), among the biggest and earliest mining operators in this South-east Asian country, is closer to converting its open-cast mine into one giant water reservoir to service the needs of the 300,000 residents of this town, a popular tourist town for Filipinos escaping the summer heat in the lowlands.
Calculate Your Water Ways
Understanding where and how much water we use is the first step in beginning to conserve one of our most precious resources. This simple home water check up, taken from the website of the City of St. Petersburg http://www.stpete.org/wwwuse.htm and revised to match water consumption in Asia, will allow you to understand your indoor household consumption. After calculating your water patterns, you can begin to conserve in ways that work best for your life style.
A U.N. Treaty on the Human Right to Water?
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - The United Nations has warned that by 2025, about 1.8 billion people will live in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity.
If that's the gloomy scenario, says Kathryn Mulvey, executive director of Corporate Accountability International, then the September U.N. Millennium Summit should explore the potential for an international treaty to protect the human right to water.
