Written by Marina Litvinovich Translated by Siân Sinnott Note: This post is part of RuNet Echo, a Global Voices project to interpret the Russian language internet More than a month has passed since the biggest Russian demonstrationsof the last decade in Bolotnaya Square, Moscow. Here is a selection of accounts [ru] from bloggers who were at the […]
Crazy Slum Dwellers Escape Death Narrowly
Just like fore-fathers said, the way to destruction is widest. People in Meru awoke up yesterday lucky after a tank full of gasoline overturned. News of that accident greeted many who lived in a nearby slum in joy. The slum dwellers ran to the accident site with buckets and pipes ready to siphon any remaining […]
5 Times New York City’s Water Supply Needed to Avert a Nuclear Meltdown
To cool the four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, each day, the Japanese need five times New York City’s water supply. New York consumes 1 billion gallons of water per day; Fukushima needs 5 billion gallons of water per day to cool its reactors. No wonder the authorities are having trouble getting […]
The upside of fracking and water contamination
It’s become a cliché that water is the new oil. Experts predict that clean, fresh water will, by the end of the century, be as precious and hard to find as black gold is now. Business magazines and websites are already instructing investors on how to profit from the coming market in water. (See […]
Did We Say 5¢ a Minute? We Meant $5: Cell Companies Battle FCC “Bill Shock” Survey.
by Matthew L. Schafer This report originally appeared in the media blog Lippmann Would Roll. On Thursday, the Wireless Association (CTIA) took its fight to a public stage, writing a blog in rebuttal to a recent Federal Communications Commission cell phone price gauging. A May survey, sponsored in part by the FCC, found that one in […]
Egypt: No longer Jewel of the Nile
Four of the seven upstream Nile Basin Initiative countries have decided to sign a new Nile deal. Despite strong Egyptian and Sudanese opposition, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia signed a new water-sharing agreement. The other three countries, Kenya, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo are expected to sign the new deal within the next […]
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