In the United States water and wastewater treatment plants are net users of energy.

It has taken humanity less than nine months to exhaust its ecological budget for the year, according to data from Global Footprint Network, a California-based environmental research organization.

ScienceDaily (Aug. 14, 2010) — A change in the color of ocean waters could have a drastic effect on the prevalence of hurricanes, new research indicates. In a simulation of such a change in one region of the North Pacific, the study finds that hurricane formation decreases by 70 percent.

August 13, 2010 5:14 a.m. EDT

A number of extreme weather events have been happening around the world this summer, including record flooding in Pakistan that has killed more than 1,000 people and displaced millions of others; the worst drought in Russia in decades, which has triggered wildfires and doubled the daily death rat

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Table of Contents

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Distribution of scarcity
• 3 Effects
• 4 Contributing factors
• 5 Action
• 6 Solutions
• 7 Further Reading

Introduction

By Tan Ee Lyn