August 27, 2010  ‘Water has to come to the people,’ president of S2C Global tells Circle of Blue. Photo creative commons by Judy Malley Sitka, Alaska. By Brett Walton Circle of Blue S2C Global—one of two companies in a partnership to export water from Sitka, Alaska to India—envisions water hubs in the Arabian Sea, East [...]

Company promising tanker deliveries but high cost might make it just a pipe dream by Lisa Song – Sep 4th, 2010 Imagine an oil tanker plowing through the ocean, hauling valuable cargo from resource-rich nations of the world to the countries that need it: but instead of oil, the tanker holds millions of gallons of [...]

Minister Cannon Tables the Transboundary Waters Protection Act to Protect Canadian Waters June 28, 2010 by mickiegirlca (May 13, 2010 – 11:45 a.m. ET) The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today tabled a new bill, the Transboundary Waters Protection Act, which protects Canadian water by strengthening prohibitions on bulk removal of Canada’s water outside [...]

By BMcPherson    Sitka : AK : USA | Jun 28, 2010 The town of Sitka Alaska is eying the possibility of exporting water in bulk from the nearby Blue Lake Resevoir. The world is beginning to wake up to the real possibility of water shortages and Alaska is blessed with an abundant supply of [...]

June 2, 2010 As demand for freshwater increases globally, a few companies and water-rich countries envision water shipped in large tankers designed for oil as the next big supply-side solution. Two American companies and a small Alaska city are drawing closer to an export agreement that ships fresh water from North America to a bulk [...]

2010-05-25 16:08:53.254 GMT By Cherian Thomas, Unni Krishnan and Sophie Leung May 26 (Bloomberg) — A fight breaks out as student Vikas Dagar jostles with dozens of men, women and children to fill buckets from a truck that brings water twice a week to the village of Jharoda Kalan on the outskirts of New Delhi. [...]

By Digby Lidstone Published: January 19 2010 02:00 | Last updated: January 19 2010 02:00 Standing in one of the many farms that line Bahrain’s northern coast, it is easy to forget that this is technically a desert island. Between the ranks of date palms and pomegranate trees stretch fields of spinach, herbs and potatoes [...]

The availability of bulk water availabe for export has increased over the past years and there now appears to be three countries leading the way.  These countries are New Zealand, United States of America and Iceland. New Zealand The New Zealand company, Aquazeal, has a substantial amount of pristine water available for export in bottles, [...]

Dams, reservoirs and desalination plants are expensive things to build on the off-chance that there is a drought. Gordon Cope explores a low, fixed-cost alternative to infrastructure investment. There is a mismatch between water scarcity and water infrastructure. For most countries (except permanently arid regions such as Saudi Arabia) water scarcity is a seasonal, unpredictable [...]

By Sarah O’Connor Published: July 23 2008 16:17 | Last updated: July 23 2008 16:17 Otto Spork has hired three glaciers. He is siphoning off the melting glacier water, and plans to put it in tankers and ship it to thirsty companies and countries across the globe. Water is the new oil, reckons Mr Spork, [...]