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Arab world to take worst hit, climate report warns
Beirut :: Lebanon | 3 days ago
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The Impact of Climate Change on Arab Countries. The report’s editors, Mostafa Kamal Tolba and Najib Saab, urged those attending the conference to take the issue of climate change seriously. In findings revealed to The Daily Star, the report suggested...
Tags: Lebanon, fresh water, water resources, Beirut, Fertile Crescent, Levant, Jordan, Effects of global warming, Western Asia, Climate change, Arab League member states, Environment
“Land of Plenty” Hit by Environmental Disaster
Basra :: Iraq | 4 days ago
Credibility Majeed Shakir, a 75-year-old farmer, wakes each day before sunrise in order to escape the searing heat that will soon shroud his homestead at the southernmost tip of Iraq’s Basra province. "The first thing I think of when I get up early in the morning...
Tags: Basra Governorate Council, Basra Agricultural Directorate, Iraq-Iran, Abu Iraq, Majeed Shakir, fresh water, Al-Faw peninsula, salt water, saline level, Iraq, Basra, Euphrates River, Tigris River, Shatt al-Arab, Basra Governorate, Al-Faw Iraq, Fertile Crescent, Shatt al-Arab basin, Mesopotamia, Environment
Dorval business area issued boil-water advisory
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Increasing demands on Canada's fresh water is putting rivers at risk, according to a new report. A boil-water advisory has been issued for an industrial area of Dorval, Que., with about 400 businesses because of concerns over possible contamination....
Tags: Supreme Court of Canada, Alberta Hutterites, licence photo, impaired driving, fresh water, putting rivers, Montreal, increasing demands
The Controversial question of the Internationalization of the Amazon
Foreword I believe that everyone at some point in life had a classmate who was prematurely involved with politics; one who always made smart comments...
Tags: water, policy, politics, Amazon, river, resources, development, sustainable, treaty, environment, fresh water
Pregnant Korean woman forced to leave NZ
Auckland :: New Zealand | 5 months ago
Credibility A Korean woman will be kicked out of New Zealand after being refused a student visa because she is pregnant – despite being willing to pay for her maternity care. Sung Won Kim, 31, and her partner arrived on visitors' permits in March. In April, she applied...
Tags: New Zealand, fresh water, Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman, korean woman, immigration minister, Sung Won Kim
Qatar expects to reach income target on LNG trains
Doha :: Qatar | 8 months ago
Credibility State-run Qatar Petroleum aims to increase revenue in the five years through 2012 from 117 billion riyals in the period from 2003 through 2007. Qatar is increasing its number of LNG trains, or production units, to meet demand for cleaner- burning natural...
Tags: natural gas, LNG, Qatargas, fresh water
California Declares Statewide Drought
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Sparse rainfall for the second straight year prompted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today to declare a drought in California and implore state and local water agencies to move quickly to conserve. He signed an executive order calling on the state Department...
Tags: Southern California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, pm report, Goldman Sachs, fresh water, water supply, global populous, schwarzenegger declared, water transfers, orders restrictions
GE Donation to China Earthquake Relief Exceeds $4.3 million
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility GE Chairman & CEO Jeff Immelt announced today that the company is donating more than RMB 10 million ($1.4 million US) in additional water and medical equipment to hospitals and communities in earthquake impacted areas in Chengdu, Gansu and Sichuan provinces.
Tags: China Earthquake Relief Exceeds, Jeff Immelt, fresh water, water treatment
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