The Case of California’s Missing Water |
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Brew a full pot of water through coffee beans and you should enjoy a full pot of coffee, more or less. In California’s Pajaro Valley, however, this is certainly not the case — though no one seems to know why. |
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Shrinking Sierra Snowpack Spells Another Dry Year for California |
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The first measure of moisture in the Sierra Snowpack this season does not bode well for West Coast agriculture. |
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Evaporation Station: Laser to Monitor Farm Water Use |
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LOS ANGELES — Drop by vaporous drop, the amount of water farmers lose through evaporation can be significant. But a scientist and his students intend to measure this amount exactly, using a telescope-like laser |
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Dangerous Bedfellows: Cholera Stricken Zimbabwe Braces for Malaria Outbreak |
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — In Zimbabwe, the Cholera crisis has claimed more than 1,500 lives. Now aid workers fear Malaria brought on by intense seasonal rains. |
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Opinion: Is There a Right to Water? |
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Does water belong to the life-protecting litany of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights? |
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Could Fixing the Pipes Fix the Pockets of 400,000 Unemployed? |
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Could money and maintenance problems in the United States manage their own solutions? |
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Nickeled Back: Oregon to Tax Bottled Water |
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For years people have been making weekly bottle runs, reaping small change from soda and beer cans. In Oregon they will soon be able to do the same with water. |
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Rainy Tennessee Copes with Valley of Ashes |
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What happens when the earth gives way? Residents and authorities in eastern Tennessee struggle to answer this very question, as 5.4 million cubic yards of spilled coal ash seep into nearby waterways, block roads and flood neighborhoods. |
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Cashing in on Water: Small Business Owner Capitalizes on Controversial Commodity |
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COPPERAS COVE, Texas — As water becomes an increasingly political issue, one man and his family plan to capitalize on its also increasing commercial popularity. |
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Glaciers Adrift: Climate Change Comes to Nepal |
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Although many Nepalis have contributed little to climate change, they experience it most drastically. |
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Special Reports
The Himalayas With one-fifth of the world’s population relying on seasonal Himalayan melting, the disappearance of the Third Pole is already giving off warning signs.
Bottomless Precedent: Global Oil Problems Big spills and bigger damage to people and water resources around the globe
Top 19 Solutions to the Global Freshwater Crisis Counting down the 19 best solutions to the global freshwater crisis captured by a GlobeScan and SustainAbility poll.
Bulk Water Exports As demand for freshwater increases globally, a few companies and water-rich countries envision water shipped in large tankers.
Water + Climate It's evident - without water as part of the equation, there can be no long-term solution to climate change.
The Price of Water: A Comparison of Water Rates Across the country there is wide variation in use and price for water consumption in major urban areas.
Industrial Transformation in an Era of Water Scarcity Acute water shortages will change strategy, business operations.
Coal Ash: Toxic Water Dirty Legacy Contaminates Groundwater of an Indiana Town
Tracking the Asian Carp Asian carp have become the poster children of potential threats to the Great Lakes.
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Yunnan China: Water Crisis Yunnan Province is a microcosm of the challenges facing China's vulnerable freshwater supply.
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Patagonia's Hydropower Dilemma In Chile's Trackless Mountain Wilderness, A Clash Between Pristine Rivers and Hydropower Prospects.
The Biggest Dry: Australia The grievous consequences of drought and global warming are more visible and dangerous in Australia than in any other industrialized nation.
Niger Delta: War on Water Thousands Search for Fresh Water, Food in a Monumentally Contaminated War Zone
Water: The Top Global Priority International Circle of Blue | GlobeScan survey finds fresh water pollution, scarcity drive public concern.
