Water Scarcity

From Popular Mechanics A new device created by researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia can purify water through solar power. While there have been previous attempts to merge solar power and clean water, the scien…

Islamabad July 11, 2019: The Prime Minster met with the visiting President of the World Economic Forum, Mr.BorgeBrende, at the Prime Ministers office. At the meeting, the Prime Minister announced the establishment of the National Accelerator on Closing the Sk…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Wave20 deployment to North Carolina Courtesy of Olivier Ceberio Using the power of ocean waves, innovators from Boston, U.S., have developed a technology that can produc…

The African Group has called on the United Nations (UN) to hold Israel accountable for its crimes against Palestinians. The African Group sometimes known as the Group of African States is a regional assembly within the UN comprised of 54 member states from t…

2019-07-09 05:00 Our economy cannot grow unless there is radical transformation of our socio-economic system to free the human potential of the more than 60% of citizens who are currently living on the dysfunctional margins, writes Mamphela Ramphele. We urg…

press releaseBy G.D. ZaneyThe earth's climate has changed throughout history the change attributable to very small variations in the earth's orbit that alter or vary the amount of solar energy received by planet earth. Indeed, the attention of the world had,…

Indias current and future water crisis is well-documented in Indias policies and water management discourse. Large parts of India are already water-stressed. Meanwhile, rapid growth in demand for water due to population growth, increasing urbanisation, changi…

Chennai today is facing the predicament of simply not enough. In fact, this coastal metropolis seven million people have never enjoyed the standard water supply of 150-200 litres per capita per day (lpcd) the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) prescribed in 199…

THE  worlds water crisis is quickly worsening and at an extremely worrying pace. Worldwide, around four billion people live in water-scarce areas with about 844 million people without access to clean water. India has been worst hit and is experiencing the mo…

The Anthropocene. A proposed new geological epoch which designates a shift to a planetary age dominated by human impacts across the geological processes of the Earth. Geologists dispute the duration, precision, relevance and even accuracy of the concept. But …