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• Environment Minister rejects Traveston Dam

  
  eco media — Authority: 422
  Environment Minister Peter Garrett has proposed rejecting the Traveston Crossing Dam project, after deciding the impacts on threatened species would be too great. The decision has been welcomed by conservation groups .
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• Morrissey Hit By Water Bottle, Storms Off Stage (Video)

  
  Shabooty.com — Authority: 564
  Morrissey Storms Off Stage In Rage After Water Bottle Is Thrown At Him From a douchebag-blogger standpoint: Roffle. $ Related Posts Blind NY Governor Patterson onstage at KRS One Concert, 20 Years Ago (Video) Lady Gaga Hermaphrodite? Cage – DC 9 Show (PICS) Part 2 of 2 (CAGE Edition) ...
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• No one bothers about water problem: Abbasi

  
  Indus Asia Online Journal (iaoj) — Authority: 439
  By Mohammad Hussain Khan Courtesy: Daily Dawn , Sunday, 08 Nov, 2009 HYDERABAD, Nov 7: Eminent water expert and former chairman of the Technical Committee on Water Resources A.N.G Abbasi has said his report on water should be buried once and for all as no one seems to be ready to implement it. He was speaking ...
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• Britain’s nuclear strategy threatens destruction of Kalahari

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 483
  Namibia has some of the planet’s richest uranium deposits and expects to become the third largest uranium producer and largest exporter within five years. The mines are all expected to be in open pits up to 200 metres below the desert sands. With their waste heaps, acid plants and giant slurry ponds, they will ...
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• Narendra Modi reshuffles Gujarat administration

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Gandhinagar, Nov 8 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi reshuffled the top brass of the state administration, transferring 80 bureaucrats and 19 police officers in one sweep late Saturday.The transfers came within a day of chief minister resuming office Friday.Among those transferred were 36 officers of the ...
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• Westlands Water District: Your Tax Dollars At Work

  
  AWRA Water Blog — Authority: 103
  Lloyd G. Carter just published this provocative article in the Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal.Here are the first few paragraphs of Reaping Riches in a Wretched Region: Subsidized Industrial Farming and Its Link to Perpetual Poverty: In the last few decades, well over a billion dollars in taxpayer ...
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• Lake Groups: Dead Zone Should be Lake George Wake-Up Call

  
  Adirondack Almanack — Authority: 540
  A dead zone that re-appeared in Lake George’s south basin for the 23rd consecutive year this past summer is proof, if proof were required, of the need for greener land use practices, lake protection organizations argue.The zone is an area depleted of oxygen and devoid of life that extends from Lake George Village to ...
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• Peter Gleick: California Water Bills. Is the New Water Legislation Better than Nothing?

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 501
  A lot of people have asked me my opinion about the new water legislation just passed in Sacramento. Here is a longer version of my piece in the New York Times Bay Area blog page . After months of negotiations, wrangling, lobbying, and deal-making, much of it behind closed doors and out of public view, the ...
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• Kenya: water ministry has lost millions

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  The Water ministry may have lost millions of shillings through unexplained payments to water drilling contractors. The ministry is hard put to explain the debts, which now exceed Sh930 million [US$ 13 million] and is suspected to have been lost at the National Water and Pipeline Corporation. In a report obtained ...
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• Zimababwe: water wars hit rural Zimbabwe

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  When water experts warned at the turn of the millennium that soon wars will be fought not over oil anymore but over water, little did Zimbabweans know that they would be some of the first people affected by this dire prediction. There is increasing competition for water due to a combination of numerous environmental ...
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• Ghana: first national water forum held

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  The Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing Hon. Albert Abongo has stated that his ministry together with other sister Ministries and Development partners have adopted the Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) as a mechanism for achieving desirable goals in the sector to filter through to include the energy and ...
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• Southern Africa: lack of clean groundwater a health threat

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  As the rainy season approaches, and sewage from pit latrines seep further into the Zimbabwe’s groundwater, Irene Ngubeni will be at risk as the country faces another possible cholera outbreak. Even now, just before the rains have started falling Ngubeni is ill. She has travelled the 170 kilometres from her village ...
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• Keith Schneider: Advocates Try To Plug the Drain of Water From Climate Negotiations

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 501
  Circle of Blue’s Keith Schneider examines the Bangkok and Barcelona conferences to understand why water’s been pulled from climate negotiations. Schneider also talks with an advocate who’s determined to put water back on the table. BARCELONA (November 4, 2009) — Last month, when participants in Bangkok ...
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• Keith Schneider: Advocates Try To Plug the Drain of Water From Climate Negotiations

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 501
  With the second installment of Circle of Blue’s Barcelona coverage Keith Schneider examines the Bangkok and Barcelona conferences to understan targd why water’s been pulled from climate negotiations. Schneider also talks with an advocate who’s determined to put water back on the table. BARCELONA (November 4, ...
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• Why do so many people suddenly have reusable metal water bottles?

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 602
  This [unedited] guest post is by a student in my EEP100 class ( background post ). Please praise/critique/comment on its economic quality and importance to you. Corliss Livingston says: The growing popularity and use of stainless steel water bottles, especially on the UC Berkeley campus, has always confused me ...
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• The atlas of water (2nd ed.)

  
  WASH Resources — Authority: 119
  Black, Maggie and King, Jannet (2009). The atlas of water . (2nd ed.). London, UK, Earthscan. 128 p. ISBN 9781844078271 Price: £12.99 Buy online The new edition of the atlas shows water distribution worldwide, and reflects the latest thinking and emerging issues. With updated data throughout, the atlas covers a ...
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• Water evaporates from climate change negotiations – campaigners

  
  WASH News International — Authority: 113
  Much of the talking at climate change negotiations ahead of a big gathering in Copenhagen [ COP15 ] in December 2009 has been focusing on emissions, prompting campaigners at this week’s Barcelona meeting to point out that water is also critical to the success of any efforts to adapt to the impact of climate ...
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• Order WR 2009-0060: State Water Board Cracks Down on Cal-Am’s Carmel River Water Addiction

  
  Xasuan Today — Authority: 116
  The Carmel RiverA few weeks ago, Monterey Peninsula residents were treated to an unusual spectacle as much of the local business and political leadership boarded busses for Sacramento for a humiliating session of begging and pleading with the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB).They were begging the SWRCB not ...
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• Manmohan Singh to open Chief Ministers’ conference on tribal development

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  New Delhi, Nov 3 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will address the Conference of the Chief Ministers, State Ministers (Tribal Development & Social Welfare Department) and State Ministers (Forests) here on Wednesday.The conference is being organised by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to review the ...
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• India, Mumbai: water cuts are on, protests against water shortage

  
  WASH news Asia & Pacific — Authority: 130
  Mumbai will have to live with steep water cuts until at least 15 July 2010. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has imposed a 15% cut in water supply for residential consumers, and a 30% cut for commercial establishments like hotels and malls. Normally, Mumbai gets 3,420 million litres a day (mld) of water ...
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