NEW YORK, Sep 8 (OneWorld) - Less than one month after a devastating mining incident rocked the United States, a coalition of some of the world's leading environmental and humanitarian aid groups is calling for tighter environmental and safety rules for the global mining projects financed by the World Bank.
The bottled water industry is global in nature. But it is designed to sell the same product to two completely different markets: one water rich and the other water scarce. The question is whether this industry will have different outcomes in these two worlds. Or will we, for two opposite reasons, agree that their business costs us the earth and that it is not good for us?
The chief minister of Kerala has promised full legal support to aid local communities' efforts to permanently close the Coca-Cola bottling plant in the southern Indian state.
As China aims to slow the growth of its wealth gap by developing the country's interior, its water policies threaten to inflict irreversible damage to the regional environment. Photojournalist Jack Carino explains.
Global warming means urban planners need to rethink how and where to build cities, water experts warn. From: WBCSD/AFP