Daniel Kammen of University of California, Berkeley, Nov 20, 2013

In the poem “Mending Wall,” Robert Frost asserted that “good fences make good neighbors.”  World history is replete with foreign policy built around physical walls, from Emperor Hadrian, to the Great Wall of China, to the Berlin Wall, the wall between Palestine and Israeli, to the U.S.-Mex

Sep 2, 2013 - Dr. Nasser Saidi, Chairman, Clean Energy Business Council - renewableenergyworld.com

"You never miss the water till the well runs dry" is an old idiom that is becoming a harsh reality for the Middle East and North Africa region and globally. Water scarcity is now this century's imminent greatest problem, a clear and present danger.

Aurelien Plee, Engineering student from France, spent three month at GENI investigating the Costs/benefits of solar technologies for the desertec endeavor across North Africa.

Presentation about Desertec project

Prosperous countries have not lived up to their promises to help the poor, the UN declared, saying poor people often go hungry because of polluted water, drought and other environmental factors that are increasing poverty.

Graph showing the low enrollment rates of tertiary and secondary schools in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Mark Tran

Africa heads for 'hydrological suicide' as land deals hand water resources to foreign firms, threatening environmental disaster

Matt McGrath

Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater.

They argue that the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100 times the amount found on the surface.

Dan Collyns

Five thousand metres above the most biodiverse corner of the Amazon, tropical ecologist Greg Asner and his team see a kaleidoscope of colours among a mass of green.

Alecia D. McKenzie

[MARSEILLES] Hydropower could supply all of Africa's electricity needs if cross-border cooperation was stepped up, according to a UN report launched last week (12 March) at the World Water Forum in Marseilles, France.