{"id":1242,"date":"2015-04-14T17:52:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T17:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2015-04-14T18:02:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T18:02:35","slug":"heard-read-seen-by-water-diplomats-this-week-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/heard-read-seen-by-water-diplomats-this-week-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Heard, Read, Seen by Water Diplomats This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">A list of news and blog posts and other web items we stumbled upon in the past week\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development-professionals-network\/2015\/apr\/02\/water-scarcity-yemen-conflict?CMP=share_btn_tw\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development-professionals-network\/2015\/apr\/02\/water-scarcity-yemen-conflict?CMP=share_btn_tw', 'Water scarcity in Yemen: the country&#8217;s forgotten conflict']);\" >Water scarcity in Yemen: the country&#8217;s forgotten conflict<\/a> (The Guardian) &#8211; Nearly half of Yemenis struggling daily for clean water and their is a prediction that the capital could run out of water by 2017.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/science\/article\/US-Forest-Service-investigating-expired-Nestle-6193496.php\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/science\/article\/US-Forest-Service-investigating-expired-Nestle-6193496.php', 'US Forest Service investigates expired Nestle permit']);\" >US Forest Service investigates expired Nestle permit<\/a> (San Francisco Chronicle) &#8211; Nestle&#8217;s permit to pump water from a forest in Southern California and bottle it for sale expired in 1988, and with the growing drought environmentalists are raising concerns about the lack of government oversight.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalpolicydigest.org\/2015\/04\/12\/the-growing-potential-for-water-wars\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.internationalpolicydigest.org\/2015\/04\/12\/the-growing-potential-for-water-wars\/', 'The Growing Potential for Water Wars']);\" >The Growing Potential for Water Wars<\/a> (International Policy Digest) &#8211;\u00a0Attempts to describe the reasons behind the\u00a0&#8220;public imagination&#8221; of\u00a0potential &#8220;war over water.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2015\/apr\/11\/carlsbad-desalination-project-nears-completion\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2015\/apr\/11\/carlsbad-desalination-project-nears-completion\/', 'Carlsbad desalination project nears completion']);\" >Carlsbad desalination project nears completion<\/a> (U-T San Diego) &#8211; The nearly $1 billion desalination project is expected to\u00a0provide 7 to 10 percent of San Diego County&#8217;s drinking water supply by the end of the year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Contributed by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ShafikIslam\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/ShafikIslam', 'Shafik Islam']);\" >Shafik Islam<\/a>, Hojjat Mianabadi, and Molly Greer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A list of news and blog posts and other web items we stumbled upon in the past week\u2026 Water scarcity in Yemen: the country&#8217;s forgotten conflict (The Guardian) &#8211; Nearly half of Yemenis struggling daily for clean water and their is a prediction that the capital could run out of water by 2017. 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