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• China Oil Spill Reaches Key Water Source

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 588
  VOA gives an update on the recent massive oil spill , which has now reached the Yellow River, which provides drinking water to millions of Chinese: State media say the spill in an upstream tributary reached the massive river Monday. Thousands of people in northern China have been told to stop using water from ...
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• Oil and water do not mix

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 509
  The controversy surrounding reports in the local press that the recently-opened Tune Hotel on Jalan Ciung Wanara, Kuta, in Bali is contaminating local water supplies continued to boil. read more
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• India Cities Focus on Rainwater Harvesting to Provide Clean Drinking Water

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 482
  National and local governments are creating new regulations and funding sources to increase water harvesting. Many Indian cities lack sufficient water supplies. Urban growth is making it difficult and expensive to build the dams, pipelines and canals used in the modern era to supply cities with water. In comparison, ...
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• I Almost Busted My Butt In The Driveway Today - Illinois hovers around zero degrees

  
  Energy Tough Love Blog — Authority: 124
  It’s true. Through laziness and a lack of preparation, we have ice on the driveway. As I was getting out of the car and walking to the house, I slipped on the ice and dumped coffee on my down coat. I did not fall to the ground, but it was close. So why didn’t I just go out and toss salt around to melt it off. Well ...
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• Tri-Tech Holding (TRIT) Gets $2 Million China Waste Water Treatment Contract

  
  Green Stocks Central — Authority: 443
  Tri-Tech (TRIT) announced this morning it received a $2 million contract to upgrade (including design, equipment procurement, installation and startup) a wastewater treatment plant in Xinle City which will improve the plant from Class 2 to Class 1A standards, churning out cleaner water in the process.  Not clean ...
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• Egypt: fishing in the sewer

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 126
  Pollution and overfishing have decimated Nile fish stocks. The vast majority of Egypt’s 80 million inhabitants live along the banks of the Nile. The river, which enters the country near the southern city of Aswan, flows 1,300 kilometres before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea near Alexandria. “You can drink ...
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• Nigeria: Dutch court to try Shell for oil spills

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 116
  A Dutch court has said it has jurisdiction over a case of alleged oil spills brought against Royal Dutch Shell’s subsidiary in Nigeria by four Nigerian farmers and Friends of the Earth, a court spokeswoman told ANP-Reuters. “The court has decided that it is competent, so we will be handling the case,” said the ...
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• China Battles to Stop Diesel Polluting Yellow River

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 588
  Reuters: A CNPC crew has been trying to stop a 150,000 liter diesel spill from reaching the Yellow River: The leak, from a pipeline owned by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) in northwestern Shaanxi province, was discovered on Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency said. The company ...
  2 days ago

• India, Jharkhand, Bihar: arsenic alarm in villages, government promises safe water

  
  WASH news Asia & Pacific — Authority: 119
  Thousands of people living in over hundreds of villages in different districts of Bihar and Sahebganj district of Jharkhand in India are facing serious threat to their health due to alarmingly high quantity of arsenic present in the underground water. The state government of Bihar has decided to provide safe drinking ...
  3 days ago

• UAE’s SAG Group: Middle East – Take the Environment Seriously or Suffer

  
  Green Prophet — Authority: 493
  Could this “dry” setting be the entire Middle East one day if we don’t take environment issues seriously? Business concerns in the Middle East, especially real estate developers in countries like the UAE ,  Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia are not being concerned enough about the environment, according to a ...
  4 days ago

• Report Cites Crippling Infighting at Nuclear Site

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Infighting among the federal officials in charge of the cleanup of the Savannah River nuclear site in South Carolina is so severe that it threatens to undermine public confidence in their work, a federal watchdog warned.
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• Chinese painter combines conservation with art

  
  Sports & recreation - sports-rec.marc8.com — Authority: 162
  Li Li, a painter and animal rights activist, uses his art and street activism to speak on behalf of Chinas endangered wildlife, which is threatened by air and water pollution.
  5 days ago

• Recycling

  
  Green and Clean Mom — Authority: 123
  In 2010 one of the easiest things you can do is to start recycling. It is probably a tip you’ve seen in just about every blog, newspaper article or talk show featuring going green this New Year. Except do you really understand why recycling is important and what it means? I’m here to fill you [...] Post from: ...
  6 days ago

• Hong Kongs Water Security

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 730
  A series of droughts in China has raised concerns about Hong Kongs water supply.
  1 week ago

• Observatory: A Simple Paper Test May Detect Pesticides

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  
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• Report finds pollutants lurking in S. Florida tap water

  
  Our Beloved Earth — Authority: 137
  Posted on Sun, Dec. 27, 2009Report finds pollutants lurking in S. Florida tap waterBY CURTIS MORGANcmorgan@MiamiHerald .comMore than 100 pollutants, from farm herbicides to factory solvents, have shown up in Florida tap water during the last five years -- many barely detectable, but more than a quarter exceeding ...
  1 week ago

• Now on the Internet: Check the Environmental Status of Facilities

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 441
  The Internet is becoming a great tool for getting information on facilities that are emitting air pollution , discharging water pollution, and generating hazardous wastes. In the past, this information was difficult for the public to access, and in some cases either was not made available to the public, or ...
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• Snow Atop the Andes Mountains No Longer Pure … Why Should This Concern You?

  
  Our Beloved Earth — Authority: 137
  Snow Atop the Andes Mountains No Longer Pure …Why Should This Concern You?by www.SixWise.comLink to full article belowStretching 4,500 miles from Venezuela to the tip of Chile are the Andes Mountains, drawing thousands of visitors each year to witness the longest mountain range along with one of the highest mountain ...
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• Stormwater success stories featured on new EPA website

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 144
  Environment News Network : A collection of stormwater success stories on a new U.S. EPA website are intended to inform and educate stakeholders about the benefits of developing pollution reduction budgets, called total maximum daily loads, TMDLs, to protect and restore water quality in their own watersheds. The site ...
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• State Of The Lakes

  
  Thinking Outside — Authority: 133
  The EPA has issued a report on the quality of water in U.S. lakes, and the results are, well, ok. The condition of 56 percent of the lakes in the United States is rated as good and the remaining 44 percent are in fair or poor condition, according to a draft study released by today by the U.S. Environmental ...
  2 weeks ago

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