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SALT LAKE CITY – According to the Utah Rivers Council, nearly 70 percent of the water consumption in Utah is for outdoor purposes and that almost half of that is used to overwater lawns. By simply designing and managing our yards in a way more suited to our climate, we can save billions of gallons […]
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ST. LOUIS – Monsanto Co. said Wednesday it is investing $6 million in a new center in Gothenburg, Neb., that will focus on technologies, corn breeding and agronomic practices to address water management in crop production. The Monsanto Water Utilization Learning Center will expand the size and focus of the company’s existing facility in Gothenburg. […]
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The growing consumption of bottled water raises questions about the product’s economic and environmental costs. Among the most significant concerns are the resources required to produce the plastic bottles and to deliver filled bottles to consumers, including both energy and water. Read more here. Source : Pacific Institute Circle of BlueCircle of Blue provides relevant, […]
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VERMONT – With Lake Champlain, snowy peaks, and 40 inches of rain a year, the Green Mountain State isn’t exactly parched. But don’t tell that to Annette Smith. Six years ago, a mining company pumped 2.7 million gallons of water from an underground well near her Danby, Vt., home. The local springs were so dry […]
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GRAHAMSTOWN – A plan to increase the supply of potable water to two coastal towns in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province is provoking heated debate. The 110 million dollar proposal to provide more drinking water to Port Alfred and Kenton-on-Sea was drawn up by the local water utility (the Albany Coast Water Board), a consulting […]
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CAPE TOWN – The city of Cape Town has urged residents to be responsible and continue to conserve water. In its drive to cut water wastage, the city has been installing water-saving devices for the past five months. “Conserving water should become part of culture, we are lucky we had good rains last year, but […]
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BAUCHI, Nigeria – Bauchi State government said it will require N1 billion to address the perennial water shortage in the metropolis. Dr Sale Toro, the chairman of the Bauchi State Water Assessment Committee, disclosed this in Bauchi while presenting the report of the committee to Governor Isa Yuguda. Toro said the amount would enable the […]
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LANSING, Michigan — Michigan’s House and Senate each passed bills Wednesday to protect Great Lakes water from diversion to thirsty outsiders in the future but stopped short of approving legislation required to implement the eight-state Great Lakes Regional Compact. Environmental groups said the move was a step forward, but without teeth. Source : The Detroit […]
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NEW YORK – After two years of extremely heated debate that included references to ecology, history, geography, and the politics of selling or buying mass-produced cupcakes, the Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn voted at the end of last month to discontinue the sale of bottled water. It comes to about 670 gallons of water […]
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CHENGDU, China – Nearly 400 dams were damaged by Monday’s earthquake in China, report the New York Times and CNN. “State media reported that 2,000 soldiers were sent to try to plug “very dangerous” cracks in one, upriver from the hard-hit Sichuan city of Dujiangyan, official media” told the Times. “The report on the damaged […]
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NEW YORK – New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection is building one of the largest water filtration plants in the world in a 10-story-deep hole it blasted out of bedrock in the Bronx. When completed in 2012, the plant, capable of purifying 300 million gallons of water a day, will be buried there. But […]
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WASHINGTON, DC — It may be possible to remove salt from more water to boost the U.S. fresh water supply, but additional studies need to be done to assess the environmental effects of doing so, a panel said on Wednesday. U.S. capacity to desalinate water grew by around 40 percent between 2000 and 2005, and […]
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