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• New home water and energy efficiency support for disadvantaged

  
  eco media — Authority: 423
  Australia’s Environment Minister Peter Garrett has announced a new program to help improve the energy and water efficiency of low-income and disadvantaged Australian households. The $130 million program will provide free home assessments, as well as installation of energy and water efficiency products such as pipe ...
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• Work begins on ADB-funded hydropower project in Himachal

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Kullu (Himachal Pradesh), Nov 27 (IANS) Work on the Asian Development Bank funded-Sainj hydropower project in Kullu district in Himachal Pradesh started Friday, an official said.“The chief minister (Prem Kumar Dhumal) laid the foundation stone this (Friday) afternoon,” said Tarun Kapoor, managing director of the ...
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• Back on the Bottle for Christmas - and the Tap, Too

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 707
  Photo via tap water bottle . Remember when every celebrity hand in nearly every celebrity picture was clutching an expensive plastic water bottle? Hydration was the byword. Bottled water is up to 2,000 times more energy intensive than the tap, giving it a big carbon footprint . Rob from Toronto is leading the trend ...
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• Report: Charting Our Water Future

  
  AWRA Water Blog — Authority: 110
  I’ve been getting emails from McKinsey & Company announcing the report, Charting Our Water Future, that was unveiled on 23 November 2009.Here is a video of the presentation.The report is the product of  something called the 2030 Water Resources Group.Charting Our Water Future is a report of the 2030 Water ...
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• Scarce Water Resources a Growing Business Risk

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  Increasing demand for water resources is a growing business risk, a major economic threat, and a challenge for the sustainability of communities, according to a global resources water report from McKinsey. But there are measures that can be implemented to close the gap between water supply and demand, say ...
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• Sand Dams An Answer To Worlds Water Woes? (Video)

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 707
  Video: In the first of a series of mini-films, Excellent Development explains how its approach to creating development through conservation is benefiting communities in Kenya The Babylonians used them - as did the Romans and the British during their time in Africa and India. Dating back at least 2000 years, sand ...
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• Congress, Michigan Legislature Asked to Fix Leaks in Great Lakes Compact

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 562
  Photo by J. Carl Ganter/Getty Images A Great Lakes freighter charts the Manitou Passage off Leland in northwest lower Michigan at sunset. This channel between the Manitou and Beaver islands and the Lake Michigan shoreline offers a swift and protected course for vessels sailing north from Chicago, IL, to the Straits ...
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• Guidance on Water and Adaptation to Climate Change

  
  RFF Library Blog — Authority: 137
  UN Economic Commission for Europe http://www.unece.org/env/documents/2009/Wat/mp_wat/ECE_MP.WAT_30_E.pdf [Press release] The main points of the Guidance are: Water resources are extremely vulnerable to the climate change. Many countries in UNECE region has been negatively affected by “severe impacts from ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• The looming “water gap”

  
  Marc Gunther — Authority: 554
  There’s good and bad news from a sweeping new report on the world’s water scarcity out today from McKinsey & Co., commissioned by such water-dependent companies as Coca-Cola, Nestle, SAB Miller and Syngenta, along with the World Bank/International Finance Corp. The bad: Global demand for water already ...
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• Global warming eroding Goa beaches: Governor

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Panaji, Nov 23 (IANS) Goa Governor S.S. Sidhu Monday warned that the ill-effects of global warming were fast knocking at the state’s doors and eroding its beaches.Speaking at a civic reception in honour of President Pratibha Patil, Sidhu said: “Goa has started feeling the heat of global warming. Some of our ...
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• November/December 2009 Southwest Hydrology: Water Conservation

  
  AWRA Water Blog — Authority: 110
  The current issue of Southwest Hydrology is devoted to water conservation.You can freely download the entire issue or individual articles/departments.The feature articles deal with ag, municipal, residential, California’s CII sector, program design, and more.And don’t forget the various departments!Here are the ...
  5 days ago

• Also In Global Health News: HIV/AIDS Grants; Africa’s Water Resources; Sex Workers In Malawi

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 146
  Report Examines HIV/AIDS Grant Funding HIV/AIDS program grants made by U.S.-based foundations totaled $618 billion in 2008, an 11 percent increase from the previous year, according to a new report by Funders Concerned About AIDS, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reports. Source: Also In Global Health ...
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• Tamil Nadu says Mullaperiyar dam safe, seepage will be plugged

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Chennai, Nov 21 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government Saturday reiterated the safety of Mullaperiyar dam to the union government, refuting the Kerala government’s allegation of water seepage.In a letter to the secretary, union ministry of water resources, Tamil Nadu’s Principal Secretary (Public Works Department) S. ...
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• Himachal wants to learn agricultural lessons from Israel

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh is keen to learn the irrigation and agricultural practices of Israel to boost fruit and crop productivity in the hill state.Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, who returned here Saturday from Israel after participating in a water management conference, said the state wanted to ...
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• Help Improve Water Access In Nicaragua

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 614
  laszlo-photos Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Access to safe and clean water is a right that should be afforded to everyone, but unfortunately pollution, climate change and privatization, among other obstacles prevent one billion people obtaining this vital necessity. This upcoming Thanksgiving week, SYRV , a ...
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• City Of Monroe Completes Sewer System Improvements

  
  The Monroe Scoop — Authority: 430
  The City of Monroe Water Resources Department has completed a sewer system improvement project that is reaping benefits including cost savings and improved service. The city operates 21 sewer pump stations as part of its sewer collection system. When faced with pending upgrades of the radio based telemetry system, ...
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• World Toilet Day - Really? Yes...Really.

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 707
  "Are you thinking what Im thinking?" Image credit: flickr, recubejims photostream World Toilet Day , which happens to be right now, is needed for good reason. Per the WTD website: " 2.5 billion people worldwide are without access to proper sanitation, which risks their health, strips their dignity, and kills 1.8 ...
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• Winter session of Parliament begins today

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov.19 (ANI): The Winter Session of Parliament beginning from today is likely to be stormy on a number of issues.The Government intends to introduce as many as 62 new bills during the session, including the bill providing for raising reservation of women in panchayats from 33 per cent at present to 50 per ...
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• City Of Monroe, NC Dedicates 185′ Tall Water Tower

  
  The Monroe Scoop — Authority: 430
  The City of Monroe Water Resources Department has dedicated the new Rocky River Road water storage tank . Mayor Bobby Kilgore , several City Council members and representatives from Willis Engineering were on hand to celebrate the completion of the project. The new water tank is the tallest in the Monroe system ...
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