Map: Annual Australian Water Use By Individual States and Territories
Agriculture is the largest water user in Australia. Where do other sectors like mining, manufacturing, and household use fall? Like in most regions of Australia, agriculture is the biggest user of...
View ArticleInfographic: 2010, 2011, and 2012 Water Pricing Survey for 30 Major U.S. Cities
The price of water can be influenced by the supply sources and systems, in addition to the number of users who are sharing these water resources and the burden to pay for the supply system’s...
View ArticleMap: 2012 Water Prices in 30 Major U.S. Cities
The price that Americans pay for water is rising faster than the cost of any other utility service in the United States — be it gas, electricity, or telephone charges. According to the newest report in...
View ArticleInfographic: Water Privatization in the Philippines
Breaking down the history of water privatization in the Philipine capital of Manila, this infographic explores the city’s varied success with privatization using a timeline and a map. In 1946, after...
View ArticleInfographic: G20 Renewable Energy from 2002 to 2020
The NRDC predicts that the G20 will produce less than 4 percent from renewables by 2015 and 6 percent by 2020, up from only 2.6 percent currently and 0.86 percent in 2002. In preparation for the Rio+20...
View ArticleInfographic: Drought Slashes 2012 U.S. Corn Crop
Much goes into producing a corn crop and much comes out. High temperatures and a lack of rain are withering corn in the Midwest, the breadbasket of the United States. Dry conditions are expected to...
View ArticleInfographic: Climate Change in the Great Lakes
How will predicted changes to water levels and water temperatures affect the future of this region that is home to 38 million people? Click through the interactive infographic below to learn more about...
View ArticleInfographic: A Drought and Water Policy Timeline for Georgia
It is not clear whether any of the new policy, planning, and supply initiatives are making a difference. Georgia’s latest deep drought is not only challenging the resolve of state residents, it is also...
View ArticleInfographic: The Oyster Industry in Florida’s Apalachicola Bay
How do freshwater flows, or lack thereof, affect the marine life downstream? The drought that set upon the United States this year is affecting marine life and a valuable fishing economy downstream in...
View ArticleMap: China’s Provincial Grain Production (1997-2010)
Click through the interactive infographic to see how China, the world’s largest nation and second-largest economy, has shifted its breadbaskets to the northeast. World’s Biggest Grain Producer Photo ©...
View ArticleMap: China’s Provincial Energy Production (1997-2010)
Click through the interactive infographic to see how China, the world’s largest nation and second-largest economy, races to meet rising demand for energy. Similar Interactive China Maps Map © Samuel...
View ArticleInfographic: Oil and Water in the Niger Delta
Despite an estimated $US 600 billion in Nigerian oil revenue since its discovery in 1956, wealth does not trickle downstream, as many villages in the Niger Delta lack electricity and running water. The...
View ArticleInfographic: 2010, 2011, and 2012 Water Pricing Survey for 30 Major U.S. Cities
The price of water can be influenced by the supply sources and systems, in addition to the number of users who are sharing these water resources and the burden to pay for the supply system’s...
View ArticleMap: China’s Provincial Water Resources and Use (2002-2010)
Click through the interactive infographic to see how China, the world’s largest nation and second-largest economy, faces multiple challenges for sustaining its water supply. Similar Interactive China...
View ArticleMap: 30 Years of Trading Water in Australia
Learn more about the history of trading water in Australia’s three markets in this infographic. Australia boasts the world’s only large-scale system of water-rights trading, concentrated into three...
View ArticleMap: Oil Pipelines and Vegetation in the Niger Delta
Nigeria has been pumping vast amounts of oil since the 1950s. This map shows the oil fields, pipelines, and terminals in relation to the Niger Delta’s main cities and its differing types of vegetation,...
View ArticleInfographic: Water Privatization in the Philippines
Breaking down the history of water privatization in the Philipine capital of Manila, this infographic explores the city’s varied success with privatization using a timeline and a map. In 1946, after...
View ArticleInfographic: Water, Food, and Energy Choke Points in India
India’s resource problems are not those of scarcity, but rather of inefficient use and bureaucratic policies. The question of sustainability is becoming ever more plain in the prime food-growing states...
View ArticleMap: Destruction and Restoration of Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshlands (1973-2013)
Saddam Hussein’s legacy includes draining Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshland, an integral part of the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin and once the third-largest wetland in the world. Now, the Biblical Garden...
View ArticleInfographic: Wealth of the Nile — Basin’s Countries, Dams, and GDP per capita
Controversy over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which will become the largest dam in Africa when it is completed in 2017, stems from a long history of disputes along the Nile River’s 10...
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