December, 2008

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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snowmeasure
The first measure of moisture in the Sierra Snowpack this season does not bode well for West Coast agriculture.

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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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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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reflections
Does water belong to the life-protecting litany of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights?

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pipes
Could money and maintenance problems in the United States manage their own solutions?

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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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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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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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KYANGJIN GOMPA, Nepal — Deep in the Himalayas, far from factories and industrial infrastructure, lives Rinjin Dorje Lama. From early in his childhood, he has been watching the world’s weather change from his doorstep.

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