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Texas officials: We're running out of water
Fort Worth :: TX :: USA | 17 days ago
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With the Texas population expected to nearly double over the next 50 years, lawmakers and water experts gathered Monday to convey an important message: We're running out of water. There is no shortage of alarming statistics to make that point.
Tags: Texas Water Development Board, water supply, Fort Worth
DR CONGO: Urban Water Supply Needs Attention
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | 17 days ago
Credibility Kinshasa's population needs an estimated 700,000 cubic metres of water per day...The lack of drinking water poses a significant threat to public health and it is the poor who pay the heaviest price for this inefficient service. They pay seven times more...
Tags: University of Kinshasa, REGIDESO, Mpasa, World Bank, water supply, cubic metres, Kitokimosi, civil society, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ride The Blue Gold Investment Wave
London :: CA :: USA | 17 days ago
Credibility You can hardly open a financial web page without finding a discussion about a commodity super cycle...Even the red top newspapers are headlining gold as it soars to new record prices. So why the silence over water? I'm not talking here about the UK's...
Tags: China, investment opportunities, blue gold, London, Hydrology, Irrigation, Water resources, Water crisis, Exchange-traded fund, Environmental issues, Water supply, Aquatic ecology
Earthwatch Institute debate: how can we stop the drought crisis?
London :: United Kingdom | 17 days ago
Credibility Over one billion people lack access to safe drinking water with 84% of these people living in impoverished, rural areas. With water scarcity predicted to increase, now is the time to prioritise rural water supply, particularly in dryland regions that...
Tags: sand dams, water supply, water scarcity, public awareness, water allow, United Kingdom, London, Environmental issues, Irrigation, Sustainability, Energy development, Water efficiency, Water conservation, Water, Environment
Bligh faces new water woes
Melbourne :: Australia | 17 days ago
Credibility Marcoola Progress Association president Debbie Johnson said 300 residents who met on Monday night were "shell-shocked" by Ms Bligh's plan. "There are people just deadset against desalination and the bullying that's associated with small regional communities...
Tags: Sunshine Coast, desalination plant, Australia, Melbourne, Peregian Springs Queensland, Peregian Beach Queensland, Water supply, Traveston Crossing Dam, Desalination
Guess who is funding the rabbi who endorses killing gentile babies?
Brussels :: Belgium | 17 days ago
Credibility Right-wing spokesmen, including some elected officials, rushed to place Yaakov "Jack" Teitel in the fringe group alongside Yigal Amir, Eden Natan Zada, Eliran Golan, Asher Weisgan, Danny Tikman and a few other "political/ideological" murderers. True,...
Tags: Grand Water Research Institute, Finance Ministry, Raphael Semiat, sewage water, cubic meters, Belgium, Brussels, Water supply, Rabbi, Desalination, Filters, Water desalination
Olex wins $43m contract for desal plant
Brussels :: Belgium | 17 days ago
Credibility Tottenham-based Olex will supply high-voltage alternating current power cable for the project's 87-kilometre underground power supply. Industry and Trade minister Martin Pakula says the $3.5 billion desalination project is providing downstream manufacturing...
Tags: Olex, power cables, Belgium, Brussels, Water desalination, Wonthaggi Victoria, Martin Pakula, Olex Oregon, Melbourne, Water supply, Desalination, Filters, Environment
Global Warming Threatens Lake Titicaca, Imperils Millions of Bolivians
La Paz :: Bolivia | 17 days ago
Credibility Global warming has accelerated the evaporation of Lake Titicaca, the water level of which has dropped to the lowest point in years, Carlos Andrade, of the Binational Autonomous Authority of Lake Titicaca (ATL), told The Associated Press last week. "Water...
Tags: Imperils Millions of Bolivians, Lake Titicaca, global warming, Carlos Andrade, water supply, water level, Félix Trujillo, Bolivia, La Paz, Tiwanaku, Andes, Poopￃﾳ Lake, Mollo culture, Altiplano, Environment
Forgiveness can be an unreasonable motive
Mackay :: Australia | 18 days ago
Credibility His view seems to be that an apology is of little value without the corollary of a declaration of forgiveness from the victim...In most cases, the apologiser is genuinely sorry for the act, and is rewarded should the victim accept the apology by forgiving...
Tags: Britain, Kevin Rudd, spring hills, water supply, Australians, league tables, Cathy Sanderson Spring Hill, Western Australia, Utopian, test scores, Australia, Mackay, Racism in Australia, Stolen Generations, Apology, Traveston Crossing Dam, Socratic dialogues, Politics of Australia, Cultural assimilation
Dam busters
Brisbane :: Australia | 18 days ago
Credibility Glenbo Craig protests at Kandanga at the apparent approval the government gave to the Traveston dam. Photo: John McCutcheon AS THE president of the Australian Conservation Foundation back in 1989, Peter Garrett was a vocal opponent of the Wolffdene Dam...
Tags: Anna Bligh, Traveston Crossing Dam, Peter Garrett, Queensland Labor, east queensland, Australian Conservation Foundation, Australian Water Association, Australian Rivers Institute, Stuart Bunn, water supply, Australia, Brisbane, Peter Beattie, Dam, Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, Premiers of Queensland, Mary River, Environment
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