Archive

Keyword - water management

- Water: More crop per drop
  
  Farmers' yields in the developing world are often limited by unreliable rains. Improving their harvests will require plant breeders, agronomists and geneticists to pull together #20; but can these experts work out their differences? Emma Marris reports.
  
  19 March 2008
- Korean waterway project gathers opposition
  
  Flood of complaints hits ambitious canal plan.
  
  19 March 2008
- Enough water to go around?
  
  Nature checks out the state of usable water on our planet.
  
  19 March 2008
- SPECIAL REPORT: Water: Purification with a pinch of salt
  
  Climate change, growing populations and political concerns are prompting governments and investors from California to China to take a fresh look at desalination. Quirin Schiermeier wades in.
  
  19 March 2008
- Water under pressure
  
  19 March 2008
- Water: A long dry summer
  
  In parts of the world already facing unreliable food supplies, an uncertain climate adds to the future stress for soils, plants and people. Quirin Schiermeier reports on water strategies for a drier world.
  
  19 March 2008
- Water: Muddy waters
  
  India's population is growing, and its water supplies are not keeping pace. Can an ambitious scheme to connect up the country's rivers slake the nation's deepening thirst? Daemon Fairless investigates.
  
  19 March 2008
- Flooding the Grand Canyon
  
  Waters set to be unleashed to recreate spring floods.
  
  5 March 2008
- Greenhouse effect has 'significantly dried' the western United States
  
  Stop development in southwestern states, say researchers.
  
  31 January 2008
- Climate politics: Showdown in a sunburnt country
  
  Climate is shaping up as an issue in the 24 November Australian elections, as Stephen Pincock reports.
  
  14 November 2007