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With partnerships between landowners, the government and businesses, South Africa can invest in its wetlands and boost the country's potable water reserves.
Cities relied entirely on conserving and recycling water to get through the last big drought. We now have desalination plants, but getting the most out of our water reserves still makes sense.
While making small volumes of pure water in a lab is possible, it’s not practical. The reaction is expensive, releases lots of energy, and can cause really massive explosions.
Experiments into the effectiveness of conservation can help us learn what works best.
African governments must focus on developing and supporting highly-skilled water professionals.
There is an increasing demand for water in cities like Cape Town. The current drought exacerbates this. But there are ways to use and save water sustainably.
The Colorado River supplies water to millions of people and irrigates thousands of miles of farmland. New research warns that climate change is likely to magnify droughts in the Colorado Basin.
For the Barkindji people, the Darling River has been a symbol of Aboriginal survival since colonial times. Now, the once busy NSW town of Wilcannia is in danger of losing its water.
With a future of droughts looming for the US West, Utah’s Wasatch watershed offers a good model that combines conservation with nature-based recreation.
Water isn't straightforward. And by putting the Nationals in charge of policy for water assets like the Murray-Darling Basin, the government will trigger a complex round of bureaucratic musical chairs.
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Samual A. Graham Dean, and William B. Stapp Collegiate Professor of Environmental Education, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Public policy advice, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in History, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Geography and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College; Director, University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Conservation Science, Bangor University
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PhD Candidate, Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne
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Gates Cambridge Scholar, PhD, Affiliated Research Scholar at the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute, University of Cambridge
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Research Scientist, Colorado Water Institute, Colorado State University
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Research Lecturer in Geochemistry, Western Sydney University
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Visiting professor, University of Saskatchewan
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Researcher, Rhodes University
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Postdoctoral researcher, Stellenbosch University
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PhD Candidate--Chair of Environment and Economics, Coordinator of Research Center SustBusy, ESCP Europe
