The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
‘Water is peace, life, dignity’: why the UN deputy chief has a thirst for saving lives For almost a quarter of a century, UN deputy secretary general Jan Eliasson has been an indefatigable champion of the right to water and sanitation for all He reels off the statistics to show how far there is yet …
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More than half of south Asia’s groundwater too contaminated to use – study Salinity and arsenic affect 60% of underground supply across vast Indo-Gangetic Basin, according to research published in Nature Geoscience The biggest threat to groundwater in the Indo-Gangetic Basin, named after the Indus and Ganges rivers, is not depletion but contamination, they reported in …
Access to water is one of the most fundamental and least discussed issues underpinning the Israeli – Palestinian conflict (as well as the recurring pattern of Israel’s conflicts with Syria and Lebanon). Control of the West Bank’s water resources is intimately tied into the growing pattern of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and, …
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Materials scientists working on highly efficient catalysts to help produce hydrogen from water… envision abundant, cheap hydrogen as fuel.. Metal Foam Electrodes Split Water With Unprecedented Efficiency By coating nickel foam with a nickel-iron nanosheets, scientists have made an efficient catalyst that could be used to produce hydrogen at the industrial scale.
The Palestinian Question: Why the Two-State Solution is Kaput Water and the Creeping Annexation of the West Bank So Israel’s creeping annexation of the West Bank and its lock of the West Bank’s water resources will continue unabated, in part financed by tax deductible donations from the US, and propped up by increased military aid.
Global trends of population growth, rising living standards and the rapidly increasing urbanized world are increasing the demand on water, food and energy. Added to this is the growing threat of climate change which will have huge impacts on water and food availability. It is increasingly clear that there is no place in an interlinked world for …
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This briefing has been prepared for the BRICS + Indonesia and Iran — and other nations such as Brunei, Malaysia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — as a means of fostering a conversation about the future of Earth and humanity — there are solutions that are affordable, interoperable, and scalable. SHORT URL (This Post): …
