As Willem Alexander, Prince of Orange (2002) stated, The water crisis that is affecting so many people is mainly a crisis of governance not of water scarcity.

Rapidly intensifying water scarcity reflects bulging populations, depletion of groundwater, waste and pollution, and the enormous and increasingly dire effects of manmade climate change.

Experts throughout the country fear that decades of war, pollution, uncharted development and damming mean a water crisis in Iraq is imminent.

The water crisis in Gaza is a cause of disease and suffering among Palestinians, and is a major source of underlying tensions between Palestine and Israel.

Expressing its concern at the severe shortage of drinkable water and the severe food crisis, as reflected in the report of the Secretary General,

Expressing its concern at the severe shortage of drinkable water and the severe food crisis, as reflected in the report of the Secretary General,A 60 302.

Following the energy crisis in the 1970s, in 1980 the Israeli Knesset passed a law requiring the installation of solar water heaters in all new homes (except high towers with insufficient roof area).

Yet again, billions of dollars are spent on bombing and destruction in the region, while virtually nothing is done about the growing water crisis.

Innovation Crisis or Financial Crisis?

The main water sources are surface waters.

It was also true, however, that the proliferation crisis had become urgent.

Moreover, California s crisis is more than an economic one.

Furthermore, the eurozone crisis does not have the characteristics of a currency crisis.

Globalized Crisis

A Crisis of Trust

A Crisis of Understanding

Calderon s Cauldron

The Crisis of Consumerism

The Refugee Dilemma

The Crisis of Putinism

Humanitarian Crisis

It is not a crisis.

Darfur crisis

Togo crisis

To avoid a global water crisis, farmers will have to strive to increase productivity to meet growing demands for food, while industry and cities find ways to use water more efficiently.

22 2 Water

The pandemic is as much a medical crisis as it is an economic, social and political crisis.

Reverse osmosis desalinates fresh water from ocean salt water.

Experiments in water management focus on the development of water harvesting techniques, the promotion of desalination plants and dam construction.

Puerto Rico in Crisis

Sweden in Crisis

Containing the Resource Crisis

A Crisis in Full Flight

The Humanities Crisis

Europe s Trust Deficit

Invitation to an Energy Crisis

Iran s Political Clerics

Iraq s Refugee Crisis

Putinism in Crisis

The Crisis of Fiscal Imagination

What Euro Crisis?

Dilemma of the Islamic Republic

Economic and humanitarian crisis

Water chemistry analysis is often the groundwork of studies of water quality, pollution, hydrology and geothermal waters.

While international diplomacy focused on peacekeeping and on humanitarian efforts to save the lives of displaced and desperate people, peace in Darfur can be neither achieved nor sustained until the underlying crises of poverty, environmental degradation, declining access to water, and chronic hunger are addressed.