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Take Two The Bureau of Land Management’s revised regulations for hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, on federal lands pleased almost no one outside of Congress. The proposal has three prongs: disclosure of chemicals in the fracking fluid, quality-control for well construction, and wastewater disposal. The BLM’s goal is to streamline the reporting process “without introducing unnecessary [...]
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The study runs counter to the conventional wisdom about deforestation’s effects on the water cycle.
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Groundwater depletion in the United States has accelerated over the last decade, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, contributing to both localized problems and global issues, like sea level rise.
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A short history lesson about water shortage, water wars, and drought in the United States.
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How Much Water is in the Snow in the Mountains? NASA and the California Department of Water Resources are collaborating on a project to provide a near real-time assessment of mountain snowpack. The three-year pilot study of watersheds in California and Colorado began last month. The lasers and spectrometers on the Airborne Snow Observatory, carried [...]
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Energy companies should provide better data on fracking water use, and investors should push for quantifiable water targets, according to a sustainable investing advocacy group.
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In much of the Corn Belt, too much rain has left fields too soggy to sow.
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The Environmental Protection Agency will allocate $US 569 million dollars to New Jersey and New York for water and sewer facilities damaged by Hurricane Sandy last October. The money, authorized by Congress, will go into the states’ revolving loan funds for water infrastructure projects. Up to 30 percent of the money can be given away [...]
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Transpiration from plants dominates the terrestrial water cycle.
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The justices on the United States Supreme Court pondered water law last week, as Oklahoma and a Texas water district presented arguments about water allocations under the Red River Compact. The justices asked many questions about the compact’s language and the intent behind an equal rights provision. They also dipped into matters of engineering, state [...]
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A U.S. Senate hearing on drought and energy provided some statements to ponder.
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The long road to information about a federal study of fracking’s effect on groundwater in Wyoming.
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A water rights case to be argued in the U.S. Supreme Court this week has national implications.
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Steam-generating electric power plants, the biggest source of industrial water pollution in the United States, will have several options to reduce the amount of toxic substances in their wastewater, under a proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule released on Friday. EPA estimates that the rules would lead to a 15 percent reduction in pollutants discharged to [...]
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Over the last decade, Azzam Alwash has helped revived Iraq’s legendary marshes.
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The most severe drought in 117 years of recordkeeping on the Great Plains came quickly, without warning, and without any dominant cause, according to an analysis by university and government scientists. It was largely not a result of climate change, they claim, and it was not the result of the drought conditions in Texas from [...]
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Scarce surface water supplies will lead to an active market, research firm says.
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When it comes to water management, Circle of Blue reporter Brett Walton thinks Kansas is a beacon on the plains.
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As they have been doing for decades, political leaders and water managers in Kansas are upending Western water law traditions that originated before the state was even part of the Union.
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The most comprehensive study of water resources ever in the United States is proceeding slowly, according to a U.S. Geological Survey progress report. A substantial amount of new data are required for the project, which will be “an ongoing and continuous activity,” the report states. The most detailed studies, of streamflow ecology, will require most [...]
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