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This bill assesses how growth and climate change will affect our access to water resources, especially in the West and Southwest, and it includes solutions to complex and long-simmering water disputes.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Signs Major Public Lands Protections
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The world faces a wide range of serious, complex, and long-term water challenges, from shortages to contamination to local and regional disputes over water to long-term climate changes.
FORBES: Water Emergencies: Time for New Plans and Technology
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The report warned that the spillover from global climate change could be increased migration and water-related disputes, Fingar said.
NPR: Linking Climate Change, National Security
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She has also laboured to settle disputes over water allocation in the agricultural eastern half of the state, and to resolve fights over unemployment insurance.
ECONOMIST: Washington's governor: Recovering from a bitter victory | The
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Then, in a Morning Edition interview, we discuss how disputes over water in the region have been and will continue to be affected by the dwindling supplies.
NPR: Struggling over Water: A Series Overview
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Indian states including Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, have also been embroiled in disputes over sharing water from common rivers.
BBC: Analysis: Poor management of resources
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Prof Lian Degui, a Japan expert at the Shanghai Institute of International Studies, also tells People's Daily that Mr Abe may undermine relations if he tries to "pull the US into the water" and push Washington to take sides in territorial disputes.
BBC: China media: Anger against Abe
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So, for as long as people have settled in the West, there have been disputes over where the limited and undependable supplies of water should go and who should get them.
NPR: Struggling over Water: A Series Overview
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The military disputes the claims and says prisoners are also offered bottled water.
NPR: Yemenis Demand Release Of Guantanamo Detainees
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According to Peru's human rights agency, there are more than 200 disputes over natural resources in Peru, many of them involving access to water and allegations of pollution by mining companies.
BBC: Deadly clash at Peru protest over Barrick gold mine
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But disputes, like the current argument about whether North Korea gets a light-water reactor as part of a deal for dismantling its weapons program, have happened before, and as of now the six-party negotiations scheduled to resume in November appear to be still on.
NPR: U.S. Loses Its Edge in Nuclear Talks