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 [...]

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. [...]

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, [...]