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California to cut water for farmers amid major drought
Posted by Blue and Green: None Given on June 14th, 2015
Blue and Green: The US state is restricting water use for agriculture because of a devastating four-year drought, despite fears that the move could threaten the country’s food production.
The State Water Resources Control Board has announced that senior water right holders in California’s Sacramento, San Joaquin and delta watersheds won’t be allowed to pump water for agricultural use anymore, because of the drought.
According to the state’s water law, those holding water rights dating back to 1903 or later...
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Storm on climate change awaits pope’s environment letter
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 14th, 2015
Reuters: Pope Francis will call on all people to be "stewards of creation" and address the hot-button topic of climate change on Thursday in the most feverishly awaited papal encyclical in decades.
By making environmental protection a moral imperative, his intervention could spur the world's 1.2 billion Catholics to lobby policymakers on ecology issues. Francis has already used his two-year-old papacy to lead in areas such as the resumption of diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United States, a deal...
Software tracks source of fecal pollution in water
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 14th, 2015
ScienceDaily: Spanish scientists have developed a new piece of software to predict the source of faecal pollution in seas, reservoirs and rivers. The system, called Ichnaea, uses the automatic learning and analysis of various biological indicators to make highly reliable predictions of this type of pollution, which poses a serious health risk. The team is now looking for funding to move the whole application to the cloud. Faecal pollution is increasingly more common in rivers and water reserves. The concentration...