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• Coconut Ocean

  
  Authspot — Authority: 540
  The water front is peopled Swimming bathing and all There’s no privacy Leave alone a protocol. The flourishing dams and sluice gates They arise from the seams Mercilessly they cut across They slice rivers and streams. Nature’s beauty oh today No more casts a spell That’s the sad story, oh no! I ...
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• New Army Corps Policy Says: Consider Rising Sea Levels

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  In drafting plans for flood control, waterway navigation and other water-related projects, Army Corps of Engineer designers must tailor plans to meet the demands of rising sea levels, according to a new policy. In the simplest terms, that means that a levee, for example, may need to be designed higher than it would ...
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• France proposes ‘justice-climate’ plan for poor countries

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  New Delhi, Nov. 13 (ANI): In order to break the deadlock between rich and poor during the upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen, France is proposing a plan to help the world’s poorest countries finance renewable energy projects, the country’s Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said in New Delhi on Friday.Borloo ...
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• DOE Hydropower Funding Upgrades Dams Rather Than Building New

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 617
  Under the umbrella of the Department of Energy’s renewable energy funding, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced last week that up to $30.6 million in stimulus funds would go into modernizing seven hydropower projects. While $30.6 million doesn’t sound like much in the context of the $2.2 billion in ...
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• Will Brazils blackout drive a new push for more rainforest dams?

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  The power outage that affected nearly a third of Brazils population Tuesday could be used by development interests to justify a renewed push for hydroelectric dams in the Amazon rainforest.
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• James Jakes on top spot (+results)

  
  Flagworld.com >> News — Authority: 456
  Super Nova driver quickest at Paul Ricard today in GP2 Series winter test The second day of GP2 Series winter testing at Paul Ricard resumed today on a 3D configuration. Super Nova James Jakes clocked in the quickest laptime of the day during the morning session in a 1:12.346. Although fastest in the afternoon ...
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• Brazil emerges from the blackout

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Rio De Janeiro, Nov 11 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Brazil suffered a major power outage that lasted for hours on end, and its major cities and nine states bore the brunt of it. Many residents feared that this power outage could be a major cause of concern from the security aspect for the country, which is [...]
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• 11/18/09: The Water Film Series “Up the Yangtze” | Mission Dist.

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 488
  If the title “Up the Yangtze!” suggests “up a creek!,” it’s no coincidence. China’s Three Gorges Dam is considered by many experts to be a full-steam-ahead eco-disaster, but (director)Yung Chang’s gorgeous meditation is more concerned with the project’s collateral human damage: old farmers evicted, ...
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• “Big-spending” Malaysian in New York?

  
  anilnetto.com — Authority: 430
  Interesting story here from the gossip pages of the New York Post. The Post links Low Taek Jho, who studied in Wharton, to UBG Bhd, a listed firm. Curious, I looked up the UBG Annual Report for 2008 and found that there is a 27-year-old group advisor/non-independent non-executive director by that name. “He ...
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• Tamil Nadu to experience more rains, forecasts weatherman

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Chennai, Nov 8 (IANS) Tamil Nadu will see more showers in the next few days, the weatherman said Sunday as incessent rains threw normal life out of gear and claimed 15 lives.Speaking to reporters, S.V. Ramanan, director of the regional meteorological department, said: “The low pressure area in Bay of Bengal near ...
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• Loch Ness area for bigger than ever hydro scheme

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  The Balmacaan Estate, north of Invermoriston on Loch Ness, is the proposed site for a massive hydro scheme not far from the current newest hydro power station at Glendoe above Fort Augustus.The new scheme, of a dam and reservoir, is to have the capacity to power 1.5 million homes, six times bigger than Glendoe.Are we ...
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• Toccoa Falls Dam Failure Anniversary

  
  watercrunch — Authority: 103
  Just after midnight 32 years ago today on November 6, 1977, the Kelly Barnes Dam failed, releasing 176 million gallons of water just above Toccoa Falls College campus in northern Georgia. Thirty-nine people lost their lives. I wrote a series of blog posts about this incident a couple years ago. Part I - Unseen ...
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• Research: Searching for Answers

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Research projects in the Bay Area involve clean tech and bio-tech, and one focuses on the potential collapse of the Sacramento Delta levees in an earthquake.
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• Green Valley Dam could fail. Army Corps working hard to shore up dam above it.

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 437
  This might sound a little confusing, but apparently the way to reduce the threat of the Green Valley Dam failing after heavy rains is to shore up the Howard Hanson Dam upstream. The article says this will reduce the chances of Green Valley failing to 1 in 25 this winter. A failure would flood a heavily populated area ...
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• California Water Overhaul Caps Use

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The Mariner Cove Marina, at Bethel Island, Calif., a possible site for a canal around the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
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• SoCal gets the water, NorCal get the bill.

  
  California Notes — Authority: 121
  The State Legislature passed an $11 billion water bond, along with a package of policy bills addressing water conservation and groundwater monitoring. By Noreen Evans Chair of the CA Assembly Budget Committee This water bond is an historic achievement for all the wrong reasons. It was crafted behind closed ...
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• Kihansi spray toad goes extinct in the wild

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  This years IUCN Red List has updated its assessment of the Kihansi spray toad, moving the species from Critically Endangered to Extinct in the Wild. With that another amphibian species has been lost to a combination of habitat loss and the devastating amphibian disease, the chytrid fungus. The Kihansi spray toad ...
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• Adult toys and condoms by fraserbsquared

  
  Pro Freelance Projects — Authority: 179
  Seeking suppliers for new online retail stores for the following products: Condoms, vibrating rings, lubricants, dental dams, homes self-test kits, bondage gear, dildos/vibrators, other adult toys Home self test kits for stds, pregnancy etc are particularly interesting… (Budget: $30-250, Jobs: Product ...
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• La bataille du barrage Saddam et la menace d’un nouveau « Déluge »

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 483
  Amitiés Franco-Irakiennes n°97  2 novembre 2009   La bataille du barrage Saddam et la menace d’un nouveau « Déluge » par Gilles Munier   Depuis 2004, une garnison de peshmerga occupe les abords du barrage Saddam, construit sur le Tigre à une quarantaine de kilomètres de ...
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• From Barrel of Gun, Little Welfare Flows

  
  Sinlung — Authority: 156
  SANKARSHAN THAKUR THE SHATTERED MYTHS OF DANDAKARANYA (Top) Tribals displaced by the Maoist conflict outside a south Bastar camp; (Bottom) a tribal in the Dandakaranya forests, still living a hunter-gatherer existence. Pictures by Sankarshan Thakur Kusma (South Bastar), Nov 3 : There are ...
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