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Desalination plant opens in London
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 2nd, 2010
BBC: The Duke of Edinburgh has opened what is thought to be the first water desalination plant on the UK mainland. The facility in Beckton, east London, is part of Thames Water's plan to tackle water shortages in the capital. It said the £270m centre would deliver up to 140 million litres of water to 400,000 homes in a drought. The plant will be run by using renewable biofuels such as cooking oil and waste fat in an effort to reduce its impact on the ...
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Digging tips to avoid arsenic contamination
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 2nd, 2010
SciDev.Net: Three simple tips concerning where to dig wells in arsenic affected areas and pump water for irrigation could go a long way in reducing exposure to unsafe levels of the element in affected areas of South and South-East Asia, a review suggests. These are: wells should be dug as deep as possible in arsenic affected areas; into deep orange sands rather than grey sands or shallow orange sands; and every effort should be made to prevent pumping water for irrigation from deeper, low-arsenic ...
Misregulation Aiding Plunder of Fish, Other Resources
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 2nd, 2010
Inter Press Service: The resources society derives from nature have been horribly mismanaged and this will lead to the children of the world's poorest people remaining in poverty, according to Paul Collier. The easiest of these resources to regulate is fish, but we have not even managed to get that right, he said. The Oxford professor and development expert spoke Tuesday in Washington about his new book, "The Plundered Planet: Why We Must - and How We Can - Manage Nature for Global Prosperity". One ...
United States: Report finds delta among most vulnerable rivers
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 2nd, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle: Japan politics shaken by PM Hatoyama's resignation 06.02.10 Israel to expel all activists by day's end 06.02.10 Stocks rise after pending home sales top forecasts 06.02.10 Tax credits fuel 6 pct. rise in April home sales 06.02.10 The river system that makes up the backbone of the state's economy ranks as one of the most imperiled watersheds in the nation, putting at risk drinking water for millions of Californians as well as billions of dollars worth of crops and urban infrastructure, ...
NASA satellite image reveals record low snow for the United States
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 2nd, 2010
Mongabay: According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, snow cover retreated to its lowest extent ever recorded in North America by the end of this April. Snow cover was 2.2 million square kilometers below average. With records of snow extent beginning in 1967, this is the lowest in 43 years and the largest negative anomaly in the past 521 months. A new image released by NASA shows just how little snow cover remained in April. Almost the entirety of Eastern and Midwestern ...