Latin America News - Groundwater

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February 18, 2016
Full Story: Journalists caught in water conflict
When journalists Ian James and Steve Elfers set out to visit the site of a water controversy in Peru, they didn't anticipate that they'd become the focus of a conflict themselves.
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February 18, 2016
Demand for Meat Is Driving Water Shortages Affecting 4 Billion People
Climate change, population growth, and skyrocketing meat consumption is making water scarce for two-thirds of the world’s population.
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January 29, 2016
Desalination in Latin America
Explosive population growth and industrial water needs continue to make desalination a necessity across the region. A decade of drought has further exacerbated water scarcity in some Latin American nations.
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November 4, 2015
Talking about groundwater on the Caribbean coast of Colombia
Across the globe, as surface water is overallocated, depleted, and degraded, groundwater is increasingly becoming a major source of supply. As such, it is a key ingredient of water security.
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June 13, 2015
Arsenic poisons the wells and the people in Peru
“People are dying from arsenic poisoning,” said Faruque Parvez, an environmental health scientist at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health who studies arsenic in Latin America. “These are the consequences for a community and an entire generation.”