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• Cheap Great Lakes Water Offered In Exchange For Jobs: Sustainable Or FAIL?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 606
  Sustainable urban aquaponics: the Sweetwater Organics example in Milwaukee WI. Image credit: Sweetwater Organics blog.Its quite common for US state and local officials to entice businesses to build factories... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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• Niger Government to Invest 29bn CFA Francs to Improve Water Quality in 2010

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The Nigerien government will invest 29 billion CFA francs in the year 2010 for the construction and rehabilitation of hydraulic structures, and further studies on improving the quality and installation of new units of water management as well, official sources told APA on Saturday. “It is expected in terms of ...
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• A Fracking Mischaracterization

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 507
  The headline on Tuesday’s editorial in Investor’s Business Daily – “Get the Frackin’ Gas” – is both clever and on the mark. The publication gets into trouble, however, when the body of its editorial veers into mischaracterizing ProPublica’s reporting on the environmental risks that need to be dealt ...
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• Paper mill closure frees water for Tassie farmers

  
  eco media — Authority: 122
  Tasmanian irrigators will benefit from the closure of the PaperlinX mill in the state’s North-West. The transfer of water rights is expected to save farmers approximately 33% on water costs.
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• Glacier melt adds ancient edibles to marine buffet

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 617
  Glaciers along the Gulf of Alaska are enriching stream and near shore marine ecosystems from a surprising source -- ancient carbon contained in glacial runoff, researchers from four universities and the U.S. Forest Service report in the December 24, 2009, issue of the journal Nature *.
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• Global Water Crisis: You’d Think Water Would Be a Basic Right

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 507
  In the slums of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, about 1 million poor people pay up to 30 times more for water of dubious quality brought to them in old tanker trucks than middle-class citizens pay for clean and safe water provided by the local public water utility via standard household connections. Some may be shocked by ...
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• Noam Chomsky: Gaza, One Year Later

  
  PalCast — Authority: 119
  A report back and critical look at Gaza, one year after the invasion. Noam Chomsky is a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a world renown linguists, philosopher, cognitive scientist and political activist. Here, Chomsky speaks about the strategic isolation of Gaza from the rest of the ...
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• No One is Illegal Radio: Interview with Jamal Juma’a

  
  PalCast — Authority: 119
  Jamal Juma’a is the coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, based in East Jerusalem. As a human rights activist and advocate of the non-violent civil society campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), he was arrested Wednesday, December 16, 2009, becoming yet another ...
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• VIDEO: Innovative Water Technologies From Israel

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 507
  Interviewing Oded Distel from NewTech , and many others Harvey Stein from ISRAEL21c goes to the Watec conference a few weeks ago. Here is his video on water savings technologies. Companies featured include Takadu (smart grid technology), see the poop pellets of Applied Cleantech ; there is also Solaris ...
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• UNR’s Knowledge Center: The Shape of Things to Come

  
  AWRA Water Blog — Authority: 103
  In early November 2009 my wife Mary Frances, a professional librarian, and I got an inside tour of the University of Nevada-Reno’s Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center. Our tour guide was Carol Parkhurst, Senior Director, University Libraries.Why post about a library? This is a water blog!Two reasons:1) this is not about ...
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• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
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• Taos Area Water Contaminant Reports

  
  Taos Real Estate — Authority: 128
  Though the data is from 2004-2006, The New York Times just ran an article and links to water contaminant reports from all around the country.  This includes 44 water systems in Taos County .  And, heres the report for the Taos Municipal Water System . The best news is the 100 contaminants they didnt find.  And, ...
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• Colorado Towns Take Extra Measures to Protect Water From Gas Drilling

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 507
  In 2005 the U.S. Bureau of Land Management offered up thousands of acres of federal land in Colorado to drilling. Because the land was in the heart of an area that supplies drinking water to 55,000 people in the western part of the state, the plan drew strong opposition from local communities. The concerns they ...
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• Himachal cancels allotment of 14 hydropower projects

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Dharmsala, Dec 18 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh government has cancelled the allotment of nine hydropower companies, including those of Jindal Power, in the past one year, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said here Friday.“Fourteen hydropower projects above 5 MW allotted to nine companies, including Jindal Power Ltd, ...
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• Decentralization of storm runoff via engagement of social and cu...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 155
  This research tests a novel method that focuses limited community resources on a decentralized approach to storm water management. A reverse auction was used to relieve legal constraints on management implementation on private land. Residents voluntarily bid on rain gardens and rain barrels once in 2007 and again in ...
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• Contaminated Tap Water Calls for Urgent Improvement of Water Systems

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 507
  The New York Times’ latest story in its series on water contamination might make you think twice before filling up your glass from the tap. Although the law probably deems your water safe, it could still be — legally — teeming with chemicals that cause health problems “from upset stomachs to cancer and birth ...
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• Centre identifies 30 rivers for linking

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  New Delhi, Dec 17 (ANI): The Water Resources Ministry, based on the report of the National Water Development Agency (NWDA) has identified 30 River links which includes 16 under Peninsular Component and 14 under Himalayan Component for preparation of feasibility reports. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Minister ...
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