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Rain garden design wins grant for downtown Noblesville
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. -- As part of an on going county wide grant project, the city of Noblesville has won a $25,000 grant to add rain gardens to their downtown area. The rain gardens will function as an aesthetic and natural means of dealing with city runoff.
"The project will beautify downtown ...
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Thirsty Mauritanians Have Miles to Go before They Drink
BOURA, Mauritania -- In the face of desertification, the landscape of the coastal West African nation becomes more pockmarked by the day. Residents are intensifying their search for sources of water. When makeshift wells run dry, Mauritanians walk as far as 90 kilometers to find water, reports IRIN News.
Digging ...
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Rocky Mountain Oil Range: Is Water for Shale?
The West harbors beneath its jagged peaks three times more oil than Saudi Arabia. As oil companies pray for permission to tap, officials worry the Colorado River cannot provide water enough to win the oil earthward.
The oil is currently embedded in shale. When the shale heats, out seeps kerogen ...
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The Case of California?s Missing Water
Brew a full pot of water through coffee beans and you should enjoy a full pot of coffee, more or less. In California's Pajaro Valley, however, this is certainly not the case -- though no one seems to know why.
Each winter nearly 4,500 acre-feet of water travel from ...
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Shrinking Sierra Snowpack Spells Another Dry Year for California
The first measure of moisture in the Sierra Snowpack this season does not bode well for West Coast agriculture. A typical reading this time of year reaches around 12 inches. The recent statistic is a mere 10 inches.
"Over the last two weeks, the snow has been good and ...
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Evaporation Station: Laser to Monitor Farm Water Use
LOS ANGELES -- Drop by vaporous drop, the amount of water farmers lose through evaporation can be significant. But a scientist and his students intend to measure this amount exactly, using a telescope-like laser called a large aperture scintillometer to monitor the losses.
Jan Kleissl and his students from the University ...
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Dangerous Bedfellows: Cholera Stricken Zimbabwe Braces for Malaria Outbreak
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- In Zimbabwe, the Cholera crisis has claimed more than 1,500 lives. Now aid workers fear Malaria brought on by intense seasonal rains. With heavy precipitation comes stagnant water -- ideal breeding conditions for the mosquito that transmits the disease. With nearly 30,000 people suffering from ...
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Opinion: Is There a Right to Water?
Does water belong to the life-protecting litany of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights? If water is considered a human right, what does that mean for private companies -- such as Veolia or Suez? According to an editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle, water's journey to the U.N. ...
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Could Fixing the Pipes Fix the Pockets of 400,000 Unemployed?
Could money and maintenance problems in the United States manage their own solutions? The nation's economy is struggling. Its infrastructure balances on the brink of collapse. Many of its citizens are unemployed.
According to the American Water Works Association (AWWA), the federal government's stimulus package should be spent on ...
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Nickeled Back: Oregon to Tax Bottled Water
For years people have been making weekly bottle runs, reaping small change from soda and beer cans. In Oregon they will soon be able to do the same with water. A change to the state's Bottle Bill implements a five cent deposit on each water bottle.
The policy, officials ...
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