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Global Public Policy Network on Water Management publishes Water World: Why the Global Climate Challenge is a Global Water Challenge The Global Public Policy Network on Water Management (GPPN) has launched a report, Water World: Why the Global Climate Challenge is a Global Water Challenge , to make the case for water as a critical consideration for climate change. GPPN is a joint initiative of Stakeholder Forum and Stockholm International Water Institute, working with global stakeholders to identify priorities for the international water agenda, and communicate those priorities to decision-makers. This report focuses on six themes that address water as a cross-cutting consideration in response to climate change: water and livelihoods, water and land, water and transboundary resource management, water and water and energy, and water and gender. To access the full report, visit: http://gppn.stakeholderforum.org/fileadmin/files/GPPN_2008-9/Papers/Water_World_Why_the_global_climate_chal

EPA Announces Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding EPA announced this week two distinct findings that greenhouse gases (GHGs) threaten the public health and welfare of the American people, and that GHG emissions from new motor vehicles and new motor vehicle engines contribute to that threat. EPA's findings respond to the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision that GHGs fit within the Clean Air Act definition of air pollutants. The findings do not in and of themselves impose any emission reduction requirements but rather allow EPA to finalize the GHG standards proposed earlier this year for new light-duty vehicles as part of the joint rulemaking with the Department of Transportation. The findings were signed by the EPA Administrator on December 7, 2009, and will be published in the Federal Register (www.regulations.gov) under Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0171. For additional information on EPA's findings, visit: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/endangerment.html

From Water Wired The special water issue of World Policy Journal , published by MIT. You can download the articles for free. Articles about conflict in the pursuit of water security, groundwater and conflict, Lake Baikal, a water scarcity map, water wars, the melting of the Arctic, Iraq, and China's dams.

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