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GURGAON, INDIA – Gurgaon’s acute water shortage since Friday is unlikely to improve in the next two days, though district administration claimed on Sunday that it would push more water tankers to increase water supply. The water crisis has been caused due to the breach in water supply channel twice at Bupania village in Jhajjar […]
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JERUSALEM – More than 90 percent of the Israeli public is aware of the country’s water crisis, according to a Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) survey released Sunday. Moreover, more than 70% said they would be willing to conserve water. If all households conserved by 10%, it would amount to the […]
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ALAMOSA, COLORADO – Officials said Monday they have ruled out wastewater contamination, disgruntled workers and terrorism as sources of salmonella bacteria in drinking water that have sickened more than 200 people. A plan to disinfect the municipal water system will begin Tuesday as crews start running chlorine through it, Lisa Stigall, a spokeswoman with the […]
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DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Construction has begun in Dubai on what will become the world’s largest pre-stressed concrete drinking water reservoirs to help meet escalating demand brought on by multi-billion dollar property projects. The three giant rectangular reservoirs, each with a capacity of 60 million imperial gallons, are being constructed in the Mushrif area […]
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CHICAGO/PRNewswire-USNewswire — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has chosen the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians to receive $823,500 to improve the Betsie, Platte and Otter watersheds in northern Michigan. The adjacent watersheds cover rural Benzie County. The proposed projects will improve water quality through dam removal, stream channel restoration, erosion control, […]
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NEW YORK — Up to one million Central Africans do not have access to clean water and therefore are highly vulnerable to threat of deadly waterborne diseases because of the conflict threatening their country, United Nations relief agencies reported today. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the situation was worst in […]
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AMMAN, JORDAN — The desert kingdom of Jordan, one of the 10 most water-impoverished countries in the world, is scrambling to find new resources to meet a chronic shortage of its diminishing “blue gold”. Beset by years of drought, the authorities are focusing their energies on two mega projects to develop water resources in a […]
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PARIS (AFP) — A world without fresh water would be a world without humans, and yet one in five people lacks regular access to this most basic of life-sustaining substances. By 2025, fully a third of the planet’s growing population could find itself scavenging for safe drinking water, the United Nations warns. More than two […]
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Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, takes a satirical look at water news in five episodes aired just before World Water Day 2008. See videos here. “Water is Life” Stephen visits the American Museum of Natural History to learn more about the power of water. “World Water Day” Stephen dedicates the whole […]
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NEW ZEALAND — The Government is proposing a new national environmental standard for freshwater resources which it says will be like a regulation on its use. Environment Minister Trevor Mallard said last night there were increasing demands on water and it had to be managed in a sustainable way. Read more here. Source : Waikato […]
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SEATTLE — Legislation to provide the largest new influx of water to towns and farms in the Columbia Basin in three decades was signed Thursday by Gov. Chris Gregoire. The bill will allow Lake Roosevelt, behind Grand Coulee Dam, to be drawn down an additional 82,500 acre-feet a year and as much as 132,000 acre-feet […]
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The United Nations reported this week that the world’s glaciers are melting at “an alarming rate.” Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment program, tells Agence France Presse that the shrinking glaciers could force people to change their lifestyles, their farming, even move their homes — and may increase international tensions. And, adds the […]
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