Clinton Global Initiative Highlights Circle of Blue's Commitment to Report News and Science From Front Lines of Global Water Crisis

U.S. Newswire › September 22, 2010

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Choke Point: U.S. series chronicles collision between nation's increasing energy demand and diminishing water supply

NEW YORK, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Circle of Blue, the international network of leading journalists and scientists, today published Choke Point: U.S., a comprehensive report that is part of its commitment to produce news and actionable information about international water issues that was featured Wednesday at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York. The report finds an emerging and critical conflict in the United States between the rising demand for new sources of energy and the nation's diminishing supplies of fresh water.

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Clinton Global Initiative Highlights Circle of Blue's Commitment to Report News and Science From Front Lines of Global Water Crisis

These findings, part of the worldwide reporting project that Circle of Blue will pursue as part of its CGI commitment, represent a new way to look at the economically essential and ecologically damaging accord between energy and water. Choke Point: U.S. is among the first to bring that conflict into sharp nationa...

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