Katryn Bowe's Profile

nutritional bias began only when the sex of the child was revealed after birth.

sub-Saharan Africa, where "income levels are still very low and people's ability to nourish their kids is almost certainly affected by rainfall fluctuations,"

a year more of schooling for every five girls in those rain-enriched areas.

the problem is both simpler and cheaper to fix than most people think. But mankind has to agree on how to share out the costs, both between and within countries. That splits into two challenges. The first is to get an international deal, which is what world leaders are trying to do at Copenhagen. The second is to implement that deal at a national level, with better policies than those currently in place, including a credible carbon price.

delegates wallow in denial. In a misguided effort to avoid dissent, they have erased water from their working draft

more than double the impact of carbon dioxide -- is water vapor

water is also the medium for adapting to those greenhouse effects

urban heat waves, melting snowpack, longer droughts, increased wildfires, drying reservoirs, rising sea levels, desiccating soils

So whenever we say climate volatility, we really mean water volatility.

majority of situations, state regulators used informal methods — like providing technical assistance — to help systems that had violated the rules.

But many systems remained out of compliance, even after aid was offered,

because the Safe Drinking Water Act’s limits on arsenic are so weak to begin with. A system could deliver tap water that puts residents at a 1-in-600 risk of developing bladder cancer from arsenic, and still comply with the law.

fewer than 6 percent of the water systems that broke the law were ever fined or punished by state or federal officials,

On Tuesday, the Senate Environment and Public Works committee will question a high-ranking E.P.A. official about the agency’s enforcement of drinking-water safety laws.

“The previous eight years provide a perfect example of what happens when political leadership fails to act to protect our health and the environment,”

There is significant reluctance within the E.P.A. and Justice Department to bring actions against municipalities, because there’s a view that they are often cash-strapped, and fines would ultimately be paid by local taxpayers,”

But some systems won’t come into compliance unless they are forced to

“The top people want big headlines and million-dollar settlements. That’s not drinking-water cases.”

majority of drinking water violations since 2004 have occurred at water systems serving fewer than 20,000 residents,

ustomers will pay up to 20p (roughly 30 cents USD) for 500 ml of water, and all proceeds will go to the U.K.-based charity Waste Watch

city unveiled a £30,000 ($47,814.60) public drinking fountain in Hyde Park, the park’s first in 30 years.

13 billion plastic bottles were sold in the U.K. last year, and “only a third were recycled.”

2008 Water Market Report Findings, 8.7 billion gallons of bottled water were sold in the U.S. that same year, roughly 28.5 gallons of bottled water per capita.

information on the energy footprint of bottled water in the U.S. check out U.S. News and World Report’s synopsis of a study published in the January-March 2009 of the journal of Environmental Research Letters.

burns the methane gas produced from anaerobic digestion when microorganisms break down the sewage.

Once the sewage has been used to generate electricity, it is given to farmers for use as manure.

hames Water put 100 percent of its sewage to beneficial use, sending none to the landfill,

water supply sector was privatized in the UK in 1989. Ofwat is charged with setting price caps that ensure water companies make a sufficient profit and protect consumers from excessive rates.

And we're talking about how to improve our economic assistance and to help the overall - the people of Pakistan in their major needs, like energy and water. Water came up more than any other issue on the trip, even more than energy, and we took that very seriously.

looking for big infrastructure projects and smaller ones, such as getting running water in schools and health clinics.

wants to cut out intermediaries and aid the Pakistani government and local groups directly.

the most affective counterinsurgency strategy because it will lead to a more stable Pakistan,

Obama administration is expected to send more aid officials to Pakistan to oversee the tripling of assistance and beef up the U.S. presence outside the capital Islamabad to Lahore and Karachi.