New buildings are being constructed without water fountains, and existing buildings are decommissioning older fountains.

We are spending fortunes on bottled water that may not even be any better than tap water.

'Water probably is not the first thing that comes to mind in thinking about making cars and trucks move. Until, that is, one looks at the amount of water needed to refine oil, produce biofuels, or cool power plants that will be needed to meet the demand for electricity as more electric vehicles hit the roads.

That's what Carey King and Michael Webber have done. The bottom line, according to the University of Texas researchers: As the United States tries to end what President Bush once referre more...

Without clean water, there can be no development. Since the Central Asian states are unable to provide clean water to rural inhabitants of the densely populated Fergana Valley, many of the ten million people living in this poor region suffer from waterborne diseases. An SDC-funded project seeks to show villagers how to solve their problems on their own.

Today, some 1.1 billion people around the world do not have access to drinking water, and more than 2.2 billion individuals are without any sanitation system that is able to provide them with a favorable sanitary environment.
In reality, health represents the final indicator for the effectiveness of water management serving man. Indeed, drinking water and purification represent essential public health factors: nearly 80% of diseases in the developing world are carried by water. The main regulat more...

WFP is promoting investments in water supply, sanitation and wastewater management, and environmental improvement in Asian cities.
Investing in Urban Water - If cities are the engines of a country’s economic growth, then water is the oil that keeps those engines running. Common among many Asian cities, though, is the fact that water shortages and pollution are stunting growth. Growing cities in Asia need more water supply and improved sanitation to sustain the urban economy, livelihoods, and more...

'Procter & Gamble, in collaboration with non-governmental organizations and governments, is working in developing countries to provide safe drinking water to people directly in their homes. A complementary approach to providing piped-treated water is through treatment of drinking water directly in people’s homes. This point of use (POU) model has the advantages of cost, immediate availability and ease of distribution to reach rural areas.

The aim of Procter & Gamble’s PuR product is to c more...

The United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR) is a periodic, comprehensive review giving an authoritative picture of the state of the world's freshwater resources, and aiming to provide decision-makers with the tools for sustainable use of our water.

Coordinated by the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), the 1st Report (WWDR1) was the result of the collaboration of twenty-three UN agencies and convention secretariats and laid the foundations for regular, system-wide monitorin more...

'About 10 million children die every year, most of them from preventable diseases. The WHO estimates that water-related diseases account for 4% of all deaths and 5.7 % of the total disease burden. In this paper, we explore the linkages between types of water sources, sanitation facilities and mortality in the first year of life.' - Ricardo Fuentes, Tobias Pfuetze & Papa Seck

WWF Director General James Leape told the opening session of World Water Week that a world water crisis is a key factor behind current global anxieties over faltering food supplies and rising food costs. 'Behind the world food crisis is a global freshwater crisis, expected to rapidly worsen as climate change impacts intensify,' Mr. Leape said. 'Irrigation-fed agriculture provides 45 per cent of the world's food supplies, and without it, we could not feed our planet's population of six billion p more...