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Category: Water

China considering green tax as extent of air and water pollution is revealed
The national survey, which took 570,000 staff two years to complete, also revealed China's intensive farming practices were almost equally to blame for pollution as its many factories and coal-fired power stations. Announcing the results of China's first official nationwide pollution survey China... Continued...

Salmon Water Now Exposes Big Ag's Manipulation of Delta Water Policy
Salmon Water Now, a collaboration between fishermen and media professionals, has released a superb new video, “The Water Pirates,” describing how agribusiness maintains a dangerous stranglehold on water management policy in California, according to Larry Collins, commercial salmon fisherman. Anybody... Continued...

India Spars with Pakistan, China over Water
A water war looms in the Indus River basin Kashmir has for decades been a bone of contention between India and Pakistan over which the two countries have fought wars. Now, with both sides desperate for more water from population and industrialization pressures, hydroelectric projects on either si... Continued...

CARE Electric: Hydropower Without Dams
Lifelong inventor Johann Hoffmann has devised a way to harness river power to generate electricity without building expensive, environmentally destructive dams Johann Hoffmann started patenting inventions to protect the environment while still a young boy in his native Austria. His first? creat... Continued...

Coal-bed methane working group to meet
GILLETTE, Wyo. — A working group formed to study issues related to water discharge from coal-bed methane wells will hold its first meeting Wednesday in Gillette. The Department of Environmental Quality formed the group to help resolve differences over how coal-bed methane water should be regulate... Continued...

Leasing water system could be a risky move for Chicago: Mayor Richard Daley could learn from other cities' experiences
Mayor Richard Daley says any part of city government is up for grabs if the price is right. But if he is tempted to dangle Chicago's vast water system as his next lease deal, he might want to first consult Atlanta, which is still smarting from a botched experiment with privatizing a big-city wate... Continued...

Man-made ponds behind arsenic in Bangladesh water: crop irrigation was playing a role in the process.
London: MIT researchers claim to have tracked down the origin of dissolved arsenic in Bangladesh's drinking water. The research team led by Rebecca Neumann and Khandakar Ashfaque have found that human alteration to the landscape, the construction of villages with ponds, and the adoption of irriga... Continued...

US is getting better at conserving water: 80 % water used in thermo-electric plants and farms
FRESNO, Calif. — A new study shows that water usage per person is lower now than it was in the mid-1950s, thanks to water-saving technologies and a nationwide push to safeguard dwindling supplies. The study from the U.S. Geological Survey shows that industries, as well as average households, also... Continued...

Back to Traditional Farming to Beat Climate Change
PENANG, Malaysia, Oct 9 (IPS/IFEJ) - When organisers of an international conference on climate change and the food crisis first scheduled the event here for late September, little did they realise the event would be sandwiched by two typhoons buffeting the region. Ironically, the first typhoon, ‘Ket... Continued...

We Have Land Rights but No Water Rights - Farmers, South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 5 (IPS) - Thandi Sihadi stands next to a dry tap. As a maize and dairy farmer in one of South Africa’s driest districts, the lack of running water is nothing new to her. In fact, she says, she is one of many new black farmers who may now be fortunate enough to have land, but who... Continued...

Water interests argue new state dam proposals
Thirty years ago, a chunk of chain, an eyebolt and Mark Dubois helped end the era of big dam building in California. Dubois, a bearded, 6-foot-8, 30-year-old river guide from Sacramento, chained himself to a rocky outcropping on the north bank of the Stanislaus River and stayed there for a week, ... Continued...

Alternative Energy Projects Stumble on a Need for Water
AMARGOSA VALLEY, Nev. — In a rural corner of Nevada reeling from the recession, a bit of salvation seemed to arrive last year. A German developer, Solar Millennium, announced plans to build two large solar farms here that would harness the sun to generate electricity, creating hundreds of jobs. B... Continued...

California: Water Reform Package is Worth Saving
EDITORIAL: Water Reform Package is Worth Saving By The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Sep. 20--Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers came very close earlier this month to a historic pact aimed at restoring the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and ensuring the future of California's water supply. ... Continued...

Report: California must adapt to changing climate
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Even if the world is successful in cutting carbon emissions in the future, California needs to start preparing for rising sea levels, hotter weather and other effects of climate change, a new state report recommends. It encourages local communities to rethink future developme... Continued...

Stricter labeling urged for bottled water
Consumers know less about the water they pay dearly for in bottles than what they can drink almost for free from the tap because the two are regulated differently, congressional investigators and nonprofit researchers say in new reports. Both the Government Accountability Office and the Environme... Continued...

A well-spring of human rights
A well-spring of human rights Article 31 is a campaign to insert the right to clean water in the UN's declaration of human rights – but what else is missing? , More than 60 years have passed since the general assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ... Continued...

Mark Steel: You can't bath with one jug of water?
A vital commodity will soon only be available to the privileged few If this was a business column I'd suggest one industry to invest in would be bailiffs. A few years ago it was hard work to be so late in paying a bill that you'd get referred to bailiffs, but now if you're 15 minutes late paying ... Continued...

Harvesting the Rain: An Old Idea Takes on New Life
As Californians grapple with ways to save water in this third consecutive dry year, Jerry Block has taken an extreme path. Last month, the retired medical doctor had four gravity-fed, 5,000-gallon polyethylene water tanks installed on his Monte Sereno property. The system will harvest raindrops t... Continued...

Council approves call to halt tar sands
SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - A motion to stop new tar sands approvals in Alberta until certain measures are put in place was passed on Tuesday. The city council meeting included an appeal from Ecology North's Doug Ritchie to pass the resolution. The motion passed with five councillors voting in favour... Continued...

Do you know where your oil comes from?
TORONTO — When President Barack Obama vowed this week to reverse U.S. dependence on "foreign oil," did he also mean Canada's? It's a question Americans might want to consider. They could start by noting an important fact: Canada is the single-largest exporter of oil to the United States. Indeed, ... Continued...

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