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Combating Cholera: The Preventable Epidemic
TakePart Social Action Network —
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julien_harneis Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Cholera has ceased to be a major health threat throughout most of the world, yet in some countries in Africa, particularly Zimbabwe, the preventable and easily treatable disease continues to claim thousands of lives every year. Contaminated water supplies, poor ...2 days ago -
Beachfront Taking Case (HAWICA) Oral Argument Recording
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The judiciary web site has posted the recording of the November 10, 2009 Intermediate Court of Appeals oral arguments in Maunalua Bay Beach Ohana 28 v. State of Hawaii , No. 28175 (HAWICA) here (caution, it is a massive 88 MB mp3 file). The issue in the case is whether the state, or littoral landowners, are ...2 days ago -
Petitioners Reply Brief In SCOTUS Beachfront Takings Case
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The property owners have filed their Reply Brief in Stop the Beachfront Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dept of Environmental Protection , No. 08-11 (cert. granted. June 15, 2009), the case about "judicial takings" and the rights of littoral owners to accretion. Oral arguments in the Supreme Court are set for ...5 days ago -
The coming natural gas boom is not all its fracced up to be
DailyFinance —
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Filed under: Energy Please pardon my poor punning, and let me explain: "Fraccing" (rhymes with "cracking") is the oil and natural gas industrys an informal contraction for the technology called hydraulic fracturing , in which water (and in some cases, a chemical mixture) is pumped deep underground to fracture ...6 days ago -
Congress Moves To Control All U.S. Water
The Republican Temple —
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Jim sent this in: Civil libertarians are warning Americans about the ambitions of federal lawmakers to control all waters within the United States including those on private property, in the latest power grab by politicians in Washington, DC. According to the American Land Rights Association, the Obama ...1 week ago -
Water rights make El Centro an oasis
Environment —
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If you head east to El Centro from San Diego, Interstate 8 takes you through arid scenery, climbing to 4,000 feet through barren mountains so fast that your ears pop. Then comes the oasis. As you head down rapidly out of the mountains once more toward El Centro you hit a sign that tells you that you have reached sea ...1 week ago -
Water rights make El Centro an oasis
Renewable Energy News Syndicator —
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If you head east to El Centro from San Diego, Interstate 8 takes you through arid scenery, climbing to 4,000 feet through barren mountains so fast that your ears pop. Then comes the oasis.1 week ago -
How much is a delta smelt worth?
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If you’ve ever wondered what the “CONGRESS CREATED DUST BOWL” signs along the dry, dusty section of I-5 mean, look no further than page 27 of this week’s Economist, which explains California’s water problems. In 2007 a federal judge ordered the state to reduce pumping from the Sacramento Delta because the ...2 weeks ago -
Looming Water Crisis Under Century Old Water System
ECO-CAN News —
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Alberta needs to take bold steps to revise its water rights system if it is to address the challenge of a shrinking water supply in the face growing demands across the province, according to a new report. In a press conference at the Calgary Area Outdoor Council this morning, Ecojustice and Water Matters released ...2 weeks ago -
California Water Use, Water Rights and Diversions
California Greening —
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Outdated compacts between states and the federal government exist in regards to the needs of upstream and downstream water deliveries to those states through which rivers flow. Most of the requirements on the states were formulated prior to the massive population growths and increased demand for the water resource in ...2 weeks ago -
Water rights and water allocation issues and challenges for Asia
WASH Resources —
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Bird, J., Lincklaen Arriens, W., and Von Custodio, D. (2009). Water rights and water allocation issues and challenges for Asia . Manila, The Philippines, Asian Development Bank. ix, 66 p. 38 ref. Download here As governments across Asia are searching for ways to increase water security for rural and urban water ...2 weeks ago -
The diplomacy of water
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Norris Hundleys magisterial Water in the West is back in print to enlighten readers about water politics, especially the Colorado River Compact.3 weeks ago -
Solicitor General To Get Face Time In Judicial Takings Case
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In an order issued yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the SGs motion for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument in Stop the Beachfront Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dept of Environmental Protection , No. 08-11 (cert. granted. June 15, 2009). The federal ...3 weeks ago -
Charles Carvell on North Dakota Indian Water Rights
Turtle Talk —
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Charles Carvell, Director of the Division of Natural Resources & Indian Affairs in the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office, has published “ Indian Reserved Water Rights: Impending Conflict or Coming Rapprochement Between the State of North Dakota and North Dakota Indian Tribes , in the North Dakota Law ...3 weeks ago -
Water Right Priority Enforcement
Aguanomics —
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I have been interested lately in enforcement of the prior appropriation doctrine in the west. Simply, the doctrine says that the oldest water rights are superior to rights perfected later in time on the same water body. However, there is a wide range of enforcement of priority in the west. As far as I can tell, ...4 weeks ago
