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Stories about: fresh water

Water Funding for Africa Is Critical Millions of people in Africa do not currently have access to fresh water sources, or even safe-to-drink water sources, for that matter. And, as if this were not enough, they are also at risk of losing the only thing that gives them a drop of water to drink, which is several billions of dollars of international fundin... 27 November 2008 06:02 GMT Lawn-watering Septic Tank Devised A worrying statistic shows that the average American home consumes some 15,000 gallons of water on watering the lawn alone. This is an astronomical figure, seeing how there are people out there who live their entire lives without consuming that much water. Counting the rapid worldwide depletion of sweet water reserve... 29 October 2008 09:14 GMT