http://www.greenkampong.com Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:35:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/adb-partners-find-ways-to-make-sanitation-a-sustainable-business/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/adb-partners-find-ways-to-make-sanitation-a-sustainable-business/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 03:09:33 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=4769     With nearly 2 billion people in Asia and the Pacific having no access to adequate sanitation, representatives of governments, the business community, nongovernment organizations and international organizations are meeting at the Asian Development Bank ADB to discuss ways to ramp up investments in the sector. via ADB.]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/adb-partners-find-ways-to-make-sanitation-a-sustainable-business/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/millions-face-water-shortage-in-china/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/millions-face-water-shortage-in-china/#comments Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:13:02 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=4531 More than 2.2 million people and 2.7 million livestock are facing a water shortage as the worst drought in decades continues to linger in many parts of China. Some wheat-growing regions, including Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Anhui, Shanxi and Jiangsu provinces, have received little rainfall since October. More than 4 million hectares of crops across the [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/millions-face-water-shortage-in-china/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/lose-less-reuse-more-is-key-to-solving-asias-water-crisis/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/lose-less-reuse-more-is-key-to-solving-asias-water-crisis/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:09:34 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=4131 If Asia’s fast growing cities have to drive its fabled economic growth, they must curb water losses drastically, and adopt best-in-class water treatment and distribution systems, say new studies released at a conference here today. The studies were tabled at the Water: Crisis and Choices – ADB and Partners Conference 2010, organized by the Asian [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/lose-less-reuse-more-is-key-to-solving-asias-water-crisis/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/diverse-water-sources-key-to-food-security/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/diverse-water-sources-key-to-food-security/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:38:01 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3844 Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns related to climate change pose a major threat to food security and economic growth, water experts said on Monday, arguing for greater investment in water storage. In a report by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), experts said Africa and Asia were likely to be hardest hit by unpredictable rainfall, and [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/diverse-water-sources-key-to-food-security/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/77-million-poisoned-by-arsenic-in-bangladesh/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/77-million-poisoned-by-arsenic-in-bangladesh/#comments Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:28:36 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3622 By some estimates, between 35 and 77 million people in Bangladesh have been chronically exposed to arsenic-contaminated water as a result of a catastrophically misguided campaign in the 1970s. Millions of tube wells were drilled in the aim of providing villagers with clean, germ-free water. Many wells were inadvertently dug into shallow layers of soil [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/77-million-poisoned-by-arsenic-in-bangladesh/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/the-facts-about-bottled-water/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/the-facts-about-bottled-water/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:54:35 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3320 (via Fast Company, via @skippetty) Presented by Online Education]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/the-facts-about-bottled-water/feed/ 6