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BEIJING – A drought in China’s northeast Liaoning Province has left nearly 700,000 people without drinking water. Rainfall in the first three months of 2008 tumbled to one-fifth levels last year. The area is a top grain producer, and maize and rice farming is due to begin next week, but from January to the end […]
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The World Bank has a clear warning for Governments in the Middle East and North Africa: invest now to avoid severe water shortages in the future. The amount of water available per person in the arid region will halve by 2050, a report from the bank estimates. Read More here. Source : BBC Circle of […]
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MCCLOUD, CALIFORNIA — Nestle’s plans to build a water bottling facility that will pump up to 521 million gallons of water a year from the mountainside springs above this small Northern California town is encountering growing opposition from scientists, fishermen, conservationists and some members of the community. The area desperately needs an economic boost and […]
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Alaskan villagers without running water have high rates of lung and skin infections, according to a study released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Remote Alaska includes about 170 Eskimo villages, mostly along coasts and rivers and reachable only by boat, snowmobile or airplane. Although most have electricity and heat, many […]
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UGANDA – The residents of Nakyenyi Village in Lwengo Sub-County Masaka District finally appear to have found a solution to their age-long problem of lack of clean, safe water. It has always been a general problem in this region locally known as Kajjumba. A local development association has joined with a UK-based organization to build […]
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UGANDA – According to engineer Sotti Bomukama, the Director at the Directorate of Water Development in the Ministry of Water and Environment, water samples from nine spring wells in Kampala were tested and out of those, only two had water with acceptable coliform (feces) levels, which means that most water that people use is contaminated. […]
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In an interview on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan, author of The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilization, predicts an alarming number of huge droughts worldwide. Stewart’s own prediction of what civilization’s reaction to such a situation would be: “Without water, we all go Lord […]
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NEW YORK – The Environmental Protection Agency says utilities will need to invest more than $277 billion over the next two decades on repairs and improvements to drinking water systems. Water industry engineers put the figure drastically higher, at about $480 billion. Water utilities, largely managed by city governments, have never faced improvements of this […]
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FORT COLLINS, COLO. — When it starts at 10,000 feet and slices through the mountains in the canyon that bears its name, the Cache la Poudre River is a shock of water in this dry land. But by the time it winds its way out to this laid-back college city of 120,000 people, most of […]
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RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA — Starting this summer, farmers in the Palo Verde Valley along the Colorado River will forgo planting crops on nearly 26,000 acres under a little-known fallowing agreement with Metropolitan Water District. In exchange, MWD will pay the farmers $16.8 million each year for 115,000 acre-feet of water — almost 37.5 billion gallons. […]
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Water shortages are on the rise, from Mexico to the Andes, northern China to southern India, and Spain to Pakistan. Drought, soaring populations and population densities, changing diets, and increasing living standards are all factors. Is this an issue that technology can fix? Judging by investors’ responses, technology can at least mitigate the problem. Read […]
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ALAMOSA, CO — More than 300 of Alamosa’s 8,500 people have been sickened by salmonella in this farm town’s water supply. Some 73 cases have been confirmed since the first victims showed symptoms on March 7. Salmonella is usually a food-borne disease and contamination of public water systems is rare. The particular strain that caused […]
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