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SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco’s humongous Hetch Hetchy water system is getting an upgrade. Responding to drought conditions, the city has decided to spend $4.4 billion to refurbish the area’s most extensive water infrastructure project. Improving provision of the resource to almost 2.5 million people, however, requires no small degree of coordination and political sensitivity, […]
TEL AVIV – Stop to smell the flowers, or at least to listen — to the algae bloom, that is. In an age of talking heads, scientists in Israel are lending an ear to plants. Sending a laser to bits of algae growing in bodies of water, they can detect through returned sound waves the […]
NEW YORK – While a growing number of scientists and citizens alike sound the alarm to signal that water’s future is on the rocks, connoisseurs of the element in its frozen state could not agree more. According to the New York Times, ice is the new consommé. Apparently the fluid has arbiters of taste putting […]
Recent research determines that the coniferous Douglas Fir grows only so tall before it runs out of water. Unable to pull water any higher, the tree begins to experience drought-like conditions. Growth ceases at about 350 feet — the same height as a 35-story tower. “The foliage is struggling to get enough water and seems […]
Consumers in Wales may soon enjoy paying a flat rate for their fluid. Welsh Water is proposing “to peg its price increases for domestic customers to inflation until 2015. Bills will rise, but only in line with the retail price index,” reports Wales Online. The proposal would benefit the public as well as the private […]
Coal Run, a community denied water on allegedly racial grounds, can now turn on the tap at will.
Featured in the New York Times a new sewage treatment plant in Orange County, California, reveals the latest in water technologies. Using processes such as microfiltration and reverse osmosis, the Orange County Groundwater Replenishment System converts the county’s sewage back into drinking water. As it turns out, the end product is cleaner than water found […]
BOLSHIYE KOTY, Russia – Containing one-fifth of the world’s freshwater, Lake Baikal has stood the test of time–paper mills, an influx of tourists, and now a proposed uranium enrichment facility. But two activists are standing up to detrimental development. Lyubov Izmestieva, whose family has monitored the lake for almost a century, worries that plans to […]
Flirting with the idea of drilling for energy in the Marcellus shale.
RED BLUFF, California – Stakeholders in dam profits watch with anxiety as an environmental lawsuit that would remove the Red Bluff diversion dam nears conclusion. The Red Bluff diversion dam provides water during the summer to boaters and farmers, but interrupts the steadily declining salmon run. “Obviously the writing is on the wall that operation […]
TORONTO – A cadre of youth in Canada believe water is a human right and they are requesting their government to recognize it as such. The group, Youth4Water, plans to take its message to Parliament Hill in March. According to the Toronto Sun, members have already designed a petition urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to […]
High levels of bromate in Ivanhoe Reservoir have inspired officials of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to dump millions of shiny black polyethylene balls into the water. Bromate forms when sunlight combines with bromide and chlorine. The balls should control vapor and keep bromate levels in check. Read more here. Source: American […]
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