Analysis – A costly thirst – FT.com
It is generally the poorest who pay most for what is one of the most essential of all natural resources. Water is in short supply for a large proportion of the world’s people: about 1bn lack access to clean water and 2.6bn have no sanitation. An estimated 5,000 children [...]
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A costly thirst
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Water Quality Trading – US EPA
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Water Quality Trading | Watersheds | US EPA
Water quality trading is an innovative approach to achieve water quality goals more efficiently. Trading is based on the fact that sources in a watershed can face very different costs to control the same pollutant. Trading programs allow facilities facing higher pollution control costs to meet their regulatory [...]
Water Trading: The Basics
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Water trading has been hailed as the “next carbon”, and schemes for valuing and trading both water usage and water “inputs” are proliferating across North and South America, Asia, and Africa. The Ecosystem Marketplace reviews the fundamentals of this promising ecosystem market. First in a Series.
The Katoomba Group’s Ecosystem Marketplace
The Katoomba Group is an [...]
Peer Water Exchange
Posted in third world assistance, water conservation, water filtration, water safety on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Peer Water Exchange (PWX) – a project of the Blue Planet Run Foundation – is a transformative online community, platform, and process where funders, intermediaries, implementers, and observers work together to address the global water and sanitation crisis.
Unlike a vaccine, solutions to rural unsafe water problems involve community organization, appropriate technology, hygiene, sanitation, transfer [...]
Coral Reef Targeted Research
Posted in oceans, reefs on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Coral Reef Targeted Research
Facts:
Coral reefs occupy only 0.1% of the ocean’s surface, yet they are the world’s richest repository of marine biodiversity. They are the largest living structures on Earth — the only natural communities distinctly visible from space. Complex and productive, coral reefs have survived over the course of more than 400 million years [...]
International Coral Reef Initiative
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International Coral Reef Initiative
The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) is a partnership among governments, international organizations, and non-government organizations. It strives to preserve coral reefs and related ecosystems by implementing Chapter 17 of Agenda 21, and other relevant international conventions and agreements. The ICRI was announced at the First Conference of the Parties of the [...]
Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network
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Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) :: About
The overall strategy of the GCRMN is to involve monitoring experts in each of the GCRMN Nodes to train trainers in participating countries, to gather data on trends in the health of coral reefs and develop skills. Experienced marine institutes will assist in training, establishing of databases and [...]
WorldFishCenter.org
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WorldFish
WorldFishCenter.org delivers science-based services and solutions (knowledge, expertise, methods, tools, technologies) in aquaculture and fisheries management that help solve poverty, hunger and environmental degradation across Africa, Asia and the South Pacific. As an international public institution, we deliver these in the form of “international public goods” that we make freely available to all. Economic analysis [...]
ReefBase.org
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ReefBase :: About
Key Objectives of ReefBase
– Develop a relational database and information system for structured information on coral reefs and their resources that will serve as a computerized encyclopedia and analytical tool for use in reef management, conservation and research.
– Provide key information to support decision-making by fisheries and environmental managers in developing countries, especially [...]
EcoReefs – Coral Reef Rehabilitation
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EcoReefs – Coral Reef Rehabilitation
EcoReefs installations create complex reef habitats over large areas using using mass-produced ceramic modules that mimic branching corals. The ceramic is non-toxic, pH neutral, food-grade stoneware, an eco-safe material ideal for the settlement of corals and other invertebrates.
An EcoReefs installation stabilizes loose substrate, slows water currents, shelters an abundance of small [...]
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