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The Stream, February 28: Parallel Water Challenges in U.S. and Middle East

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California and Israel have similar environments, and therefore similar water-management challenges. From drought to increasing agricultural demand to population pressures, a University of California research fellow wrote at National Geographic, the challenges facing Israel, and Isreal’s responses, offer learning opportunities for California, and others. Dominican Infrastructure Residents on the Dominican Republic’s north-south border should have […]

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Federal Water Tap, February 18: Climate Change a Financial High Risk to U.S. Government

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Climate Change Risk The U.S. government’s internal watchdog added two new items to its list of high-priority risks to the federal government: financial risk from climate change-related catastrophes and insufficient data from weather-monitoring satellites. The Government Accountability Office’s high-risk list – which emphasizes areas vulnerable to fraud, waste or mismanagement, or areas in need of […]

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The Stream, February 14: Major Water Loss Across Middle East

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The Tigris and Euphrates’ river basins lost almost as much water as the Dead Sea from 2003-2007, according to a new study from the University of California, NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The biggest contributor to the loss, Middle East Online reported, was groundwater pumping, especially from wells that were drilled after […]

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The Stream, February 11: Water Shortages in Northeast U.S.

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Droughts and water scarcity in Texas, Colorado and Mississippi might be dominating the headlines, but some Northeast U.S. states are running into water-supply challenges of their own. The University of Connecticut, NPR reported, wanted to use water from a local river in its expansion plans, but some fear climate variability and distance from the river’s […]

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Federal Water Tap, January 28: New Congress, New Legislation

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The freshmen have been initiated, the committees settled and the staffs filled. Now comes the law making. Here’s the first batch of water-related bills in the 113th Congress: Harry Reid (D-Nevada) reintroduced the farm bill that the Senate passed in June 2012. Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan), the Senate Agriculture Committee chair, said that she would hold […]

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Water News: What’s Ahead in 2013

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Drought, water disputes, debates about energy development — “more of the same” is what to expect this year. Photo © Aubrey Ann Parker / Circle of Blue In the waning days of 2012, India’s state governments approved a plan for the federal government to tackle a new national water policy to regulate the use of […]

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The Stream, December 27: Evaporation to Exacerbate Western Water Shortages

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Temperatures nudged higher by climate change will increase evaporation levels from plants and soil in the American west, a new Columbia University study predicted. Higher evaporation rates, the Los Angeles Times reported, will dry out land and reduce water runoff into rivers and streams by about 10 percent in California, Nevada, Colorado River headwaters and […]