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• Hang On to Your Tin Foil Hats: The Darker Truth About Fluoride

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 548
  In my first posting on fluoride from earlier in the week, I took a brief look at the common use of fluoride as an additive in toothpaste, as well as other commonly consumed products (soda, tea, and bottled beverages). I made it fairly clear that fluoride, while it is arguably effective in strengthening teeth and [...]
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• Barry Nelson: Water and California’s climate adaptation strategy

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 156
  From Barry Nelson at the NRDC Switchboard blog:“In the final California Climate Adaptation Strategy released yesterday, the state predicts a drier future for the Golden State. This news comes at a sobering time — California has already experienced three dry years, reducing water supplies and further harming the ...
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• Chemicals Found in Tap Water- The Five Most Harmful

  
  Common Allergies And Symptoms — Authority: 134
  Harmful chemicals are in your supposedly safe drinking water, do you know? The fact that chemicals are found in tap water has never been hidden by the government. However, government officials focus on what they consider helpful chemicals such as fluoride. Since fluoride is needed to protect teeth from decay, this ...
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• County’s water director leaving for engineering firm

  
  Charlottesville Tomorrow News Center — Authority: 512
  By Sean Tubbs Friday, December 4, 2009 Charlottesville Tomorrow Gary Fern will leave his position as executive director of the Albemarle County Service Authority to take a position with an engineering firm that has ties to the organization. Fern will...
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• Cities may require dams, stilts, thanks to global warming

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 156
  From Fox News:“With the world losing the battle against global warming so far, experts are warning that humans need to follow nature’s example: Adapt or die.That means elevating buildings, making taller and stronger dams and seawalls, rerouting water systems, restricting certain developments, changing farming ...
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• ModBee editorial: Hang on to your water rights, people

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 156
  From the Modesto Bee:“Farmers on the West Side and the southern part of the San Joaquin Valley got some alarming news this week with the announcement that they might only get 5 percent of their State Water Project allocations in 2010. It was the lowest ever initial allocation.Even though the allocation probably will ...
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• Climate Change Threatens China’s Crops, State Forecaster

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 552
  China’s chief meteorologist recommends adjusting to global warming over fighting it. On the eve of global climate talks in Copenhagen, China’s chief meteorologist, Zheng Guoguang, has warned of steep reductions in the country’s future harvests due to the effects of global warming. But rather than focusing ...
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• NIMBY And The Coming Energy Crisis

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 527
  Long-time readers of Boom2Bust.com know that it’s my belief we’re heading towards a serious energy crisis. I attribute this partially to the philosophy of NIMBY, or “not-in-my-backyard.” CNN Money’s Steve Hargreaves wrote this morning: “Drill baby drill” is so 2008. More than a year after ...
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• Drought Causes Record Low Water Allocations for California

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 552
  Climate conditions and regulations are causing California to reassess water allocation, potentially taking drastic conservation measures. California’s water supply agency says the urban areas and irrigation districts can expect only five percent of their usual contracted water allotments in 2010 because of ongoing ...
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• Graywater: UCLA gives Southern California a mixed grade

  
  Greenspace — Authority: 553
  UCLA issued its Southern California Environmental Report Card last week. Its grade for graywater (the wastewater generated from showers, baths, sinks and washing machines): B+ overall, "for moving forward to address the need to increase California’s water portfolio, for recognizing the potential of graywater ...
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• Development of a System that Automatically Responds to Living Behavior by AIST

  
  Japan Technology Information — Authority: 134
  In spite of energy-saving features of many house hold equipments such as air-conditioning, televisions and boilers have greatly improved, the energy consumption for each home in Japan in 2007 has increased by factor of 1.4 times in comparison to year 1973 according to the FY2008 report by Agency for National Resources ...
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• BJP protests water price hike in Delhi

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  New Delhi, Dec.3 (ANI): Activists of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staged a protest on Thursday here against the hike in the tariff of piped water supply in the city.After hiking the fares of bus and metro, the Delhi government raised the water tariff upto two-and-a-half-times.The BJP activists were ...
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• Protestor dies, 25 others taken in custody outside BMC office

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Mumbai, Dec 3 (ANI): According to latest reports, a protestor has died outside the Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) office here, and 25 other protestors have been taken into police custody.The BMC today witnessed hundreds of angry residents, who were protesting against the ongoing water crisis due to the water ...
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• Centre to launch Rajiv Awas Yojana for constructing houses for city slum-dwellers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  New Delhi, Dec. 3 (ANI): Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, said on Thursday that the government plans to launch the Rajiv Awas Yojana for constructing houses for city slum-dwellers.“We hope to launch the ambitious Rajiv Gandhi Awas Yojna that will strive to create a formal space for the slum-dwellers within the city ...
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• How to Clean Your Own Gutters

  
  Handy Man Fix Home Repair — Authority: 136
  If your house is equipped with gutters and you cant remember the last time they were cleaned, its best to get proactive and do it yourself. While there are services that can come do this for you, its actually quite easy and just about anyone can do it safely. Before you get started, youll need to have a couple of ...
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• GE Profile Arctica Fridge water dispenser

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 159
  Our new refrigerator was delivered and hooked up to the water line over the weekend. I tested out the water dispenser and found that it only trickles out. I figured there was air in the line so I held the glass there for several minutes, no improvement. I removed the filter and reinstalled, no improvement. [...]
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• County water official to step down

  
  Charlottesville Tomorrow News Center — Authority: 512
  By Sean Tubbs Charlottesville Tomorrow Thursday, December 3, 2009 Gary Fern appearing before the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors Gary Fern, the executive director of the Albemarle County Service Authority since March 2006, will publicly announce his resignation today. A...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• Water Becomes a Pawn In Central Asian Energy Dispute

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 552
  Uzbekistan’s exit from the regional energy grid spurs Tajik officials to complete the world’s tallest dam to secure domestic energy supplies. Uzbekistan’s decision to leave the Central Asia energy grid – which cuts off Tajikistan from importing and exporting electricity – has some Tajik officials ...
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• Get On Your Tin Foil Hats: The Dark Truth About Fluoride

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 548
  Go into your bathroom and grab any tube of toothpaste within reach. If it is a tube of fluoride toothpaste (as the vast majority are) it will, by law, have this warning printed somewhere on the tube: “If you accidentally swallow more than used for brushing, seek professional help or contact a poison control center ...
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