Issues & Trends

	Mooo-ve That Manure: Agricultural Runoff A Spreading Public Health Issue Runoff from agriculture is the biggest polluter of the country's river and stream water, according to the U.S.
	Research In Action: UC Tackles Water Crisis Struggling through a third consecutive year of drought, California faces a bleak reality: Change the way we use our scarce water supply or face recurring cycles of economic and environmental emergencies. Given the urgency of the drought crisis, ...
	Engineers of the New Millennium: The Global Water Challenge Water is such a basic human need that it takes real ingenuity to find new ways to control, retrieve, and share this critical resource. We meet some of the wizards of water—the engineers who are helping communities handle acute water challenges and plan for the future.
	Failing to Curb Global Warming Could Cost the Nation Hundreds of Billions by the End of the Century, New Report Finds WASHINGTON - Unchecked climate change could saddle taxpayers, businesses, and state and local governments across the country with hundreds of billions of
	Water Pollution, Scarcity Top China's Environmental Challenges Says New Circle of Blue / GlobeScan Global Survey Contamination of China's fresh water resources from industrial pollution and inadequate sewage treatment is seen by Chinese residents as the nation's most critical environmental priority, according to a new public opinion survey.
	WHAT IS THE MDG MONITOR? The MDG Monitor shows how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
	Renewables Global Status Report 2009 Update The year 2008 was the best yet for renewables. Even though the global economic downturn affected renewables in many ways starting in late 2008, the year was still one to remember. As Table 1, on page 22, shows, in just one year, the capacity of utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) plants (larger than 200 kW) tripled to 3 GW.
	How Much Surface Area Would It Take to Power the World Completely With Solar or Wind? Ever wonder how much space we would need to use to power the entire world with solar energy or offshore wind power? So did the good people at the Land Art Generator, who created two infographics that show the amount of surface area required to power our planet with renewable resources.
	Scientists Believe the True Cost of Climate Change Is Far Higher Than Anticipated Scientists, led by Professor Martin Parry, the former co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, are set to warn that the UN negotiations aimed at combating climate change are based on unachievable low costs.
	Water, Water Everywhere -- and Everywhere Under Threat Water, as we have often said, is the new carbon: the latest resource that must be conserved, and the latest element of business operations that must be measured, managed and reduced.