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Drought returns to Minnesota in reprise of last year
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 24th, 2010
Associated Press: Drought has returned to Minnesota. The ongoing dry weather has led to a repeat of the drought that covered much of Minnesota last year. Data this week from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows that a fourth of the state is now in moderate drought, east of a line from the northeast metro area to International Falls. The lack of significant rainfall has raised the fire danger across much of Minnesota. Campfires have been banned on federal lands in the Superior National Forest, ...
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South Africa: Children Help to Assess Water Health
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 24th, 2010
Inter Press Service: Miss, Miss, there are tiny creatures here in the water!" a Grade 7 pupil shouts excitedly, trying to draw attention to his water sample. At first, the liquid looks clear, but upon closer examination, one can make out a tiny aquatic invertebrate. The 13-year-old boy is part of a conservation education project that his school, Sid G Rule Primary from Grassy Park, conducts in collaboration with the Rondevlei Nature Reserve, located about 20 kilometres outside of Cape Town. The creatures ...
Argentina: We’re Drowning in Sadness
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 24th, 2010
Inter Press Service: The legal battle waged by an indigenous community in northern Argentina against the government over a project that flooded half of their territory highlights the fact that legal title to their land is not enough to overcome the marginalisation they have faced for centuries. El Descanso, 1,500 kilometres north of Buenos Aires, is a Pilagá indigenous community in the northeastern Argentine province of Formosa. It is located next to the La Estrella wetlands, an area spanning 400,000 ...
United Kingdom: ‘Water rats’ to carry on polluting
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on April 24th, 2010
Times (UK): BRITAIN'S "water rats' -- the giant utility companies -- have been given permission to carry on polluting beaches just as families start digging out buckets and spades for the summer holidays. The government's Planning Inspectorate has rejected an attempt by the Environment Agency to impose regulations on 4,200 outlets that pump raw sewage into the sea and rivers. It means the water companies -- which together recorded profits of £1.8 billion in 2008-09 -- have again escaped ...
United States: State Decision Blocks Drilling for Gas in Catskills
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 24th, 2010
New York Times: New York State environmental officials announced on Friday that they would impose far stricter regulations on a controversial type of natural gas drilling in the upstate area that supplies most of New York City's drinking water, making it highly unlikely that any drilling would be done there. Although they did not impose an outright ban on drilling, state officials said that any natural gas company would have to conduct a separate environmental impact review for each well it proposed ...