May, 2009

water_stefano_serra
Amid bloody political conflict, the prolonged five-year drought in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip drags on in dismal day-to-day monotony,

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Helsinki
HELSINKI — The first international Helsinki Chemicals Forum (HCF) is well underway, and among the topics being talked about is water.

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salt
There is always a lot of interest in desalination. I hear it when I give public talks on global and local water issues; I see it in some responses to my blog posts that believe desalination should be much more aggressively pursued

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Bahir Industry
The Bihar state government in eastern India will soon launch projects to supply safe drinking water from the Ganges River to arsenic-affected villages in the region,

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everest
Fifty-six years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first ascended Everest, modern climbers are starting to feel the affects of global warming, as melting ice slips from beneath their feet.

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mosquito
With the rainy season still to come, South America is already facing one of the largest dengue fever epidemics on record

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tapwater
More and more restaurateurs are shifting to encourage healthy foods and sustainable agriculture grown nearby – a campaign many call “local food.” It is time to launch what I’ll call a “local water”

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By Abrahm Lustgarten
ProPublica

Four years after Vice President Dick Cheney spearheaded a massive energy bill that exempted natural gas drilling from federal clean water laws, Congress is having second thoughts about the environmental dangers posed by the burgeoning industry.

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nasawater
In outer space, water use aboard the International Space Station is a microcosm of water use here on Earth.

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