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• Himachal demands new power plant to meet shortages

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  New Delhi/Shimla, Nov 15 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal Sunday requested the central government to set up a 500 MW gas-based power plant in the state to help it meet the power shortage during the winters.Speaking at the power ministers’ conference in New Delhi, Dhumal said the state’s ...
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• Madagascar Cancels Water Deal with Saudi Arabia

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 535
  Madagascar’s government has ended a water export deal with Saudi Arabia because it was opposed by environmental, civil society groups in the country. A proposed deal to export water from the Faraony River in Madagascar to Saudi Arabia has been canceled, Global Water News Watch reports. The deal would have ...
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• ‘Happy Basin’ – simple, instant water filtering

  
  TechBurgh Blog and PodCast — Authority: 504
  Wow, why didn’t I think of this? Water supplies in certain parts of the World leave more than a little to be desired. Often people find themselves drinking directly out of the same rivers that others bate in, dump waste in, discard of their dead in and more. This is such a remarkably simple idea, I hope ...
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• Genetically engineered heavy metal fans

  
  Sciencebase Science Blog — Authority: 118
  The wastewater released from industry often contains high levels of toxic heavy metals, which can kill organisms, damage ecosystems, and accumulate in the foodchain. Electroplating, lead smelting, mining, and countless other processes produce enormous volumes of such wastewater. In a perfect world, remediation would ...
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• ECOWAS Pledges to Encourage Farming in Nigeria, West Africa

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission said on Thursday in Abuja that it would work closely with Nigeria and other member states to realize a robust farming industry in West Africa to reduce hunger and poverty. Jean Dieu Somda, the Vice President of the commission, said at end of the ...
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• Boost for Tasmanian irrigation efficiency projects

  
  eco media — Authority: 424
  The development of new and highly water efficient irrigation projects in Tasmania will receive a $14.8 million boost from the Australian Government. This funding forms part of the Australian Government’s election commitment to contribute up to $140 million, subject to due diligence, towards the development of modern ...
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• A Conference About Water IV: Scum and Sludge

  
  EcoTone — Authority: 118
  The scum (technical term) that rises to the top of waste water during processes.The ESA Millennium Conference took its participants out into the field yesterday in a series of field trips to learn about local water-related issues.  This blogger ventured out to the Wayne Hill Water Resources Center in Buford, GA, ...
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• Peepoo Bags Promise to Clean Up a Lot of Global Crap

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 727
  Sometimes we get so concentrated on the small (yet important) details of green we forget about the big picture. Or the news seems like nothing but bad. But theres good news, too. To combat the problem of lack of sanitation and clean water -- 2.6 billion people dont have access to toilet facilities -- the smart ...
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• Environment Minister rejects Traveston Dam

  
  eco media — Authority: 424
  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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• Beijing’s Snow Day Might Hold Solution to Climate Problems

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 535
  Cloud seeding induces rain by scattering aerosol particles in the clouds. Photo courtesy Utah Division of Water Resources. Click to enlarge. Cloud seeding, a weather modification technique that induces precipitation, might be the key to keeping the Earth’s temperature in balance, scientists say. Beijing ...
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• Morrissey Hit By Water Bottle, Storms Off Stage (Video)

  
  Shabooty.com — Authority: 555
  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: 486
  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: 439
  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: 718
  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: 526
  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: 535
  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: 127
  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: 127
  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: 127
  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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