India and Pakistan Dispute Water Use for Hydropower, Agriculture |
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India strives to redirect water, currently used for Pakistani agriculture, on the Kishanganga River for 330 megawatts. |
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Heavy Rainfall Hampers Tea Markets in India and Sri Lanka |
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Severe weather impacts could compromise tea farming for two of the world’s biggest players in the industry. |
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Q&A: Upmanu Lall on India’s Nexus of Energy, Food and Water |
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Upmanu Lall talks specifically of three regions of India where cereals are grown, despite recent droughts. |
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Remedies for Nitrate-Contaminated Water in California are Anything but Quick, Cheap |
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John and Rosenda Mataka never gave a thought to their tap water until 1995, when the city of Modesto took over the town of Grayson’s water supply wells and informed everyone that they had been drinking nitrate-contaminated water for over a decade. |
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Nitrate Contamination Spreading in California Communities’ Water |
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The California Watch nitrates project revealed that wells that serve more than two million Californians have been contaminated with nitrates at levels that surpass the public health limit. |
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The Price of Water: A Comparison of Water Rates, Usage in 30 U.S. Cities |
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“For more than 20 years industry has been moving south looking for cheaper labor, I’m hoping that now they’ll start coming back looking for cheaper water.” |
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UK Reliance on Imported Water Leaves Country Vulnerable, Study |
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Many places the country currently imports products from may begin to see problems meeting domestic water demand in the coming decades, possibly causing a shortage of goods for the country, a study says. |
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British Company Creates Cheap, Small-Scale Desalination for Agriculture |
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The new system, which uses sub-surface pipes to remove salts and deliver water to plants on demand, grew 200 prosopis trees in the United Arab Emirates’ desert during a test-run. |
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California Farmers Can Save Water, Money, Says Pacific Institute Report |
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The water-scarce state can overhaul its agricultural water management by implementing clearer water targets, better economic incentives, and more direct communication systems, according to a Pacific Institute report |
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Water, Not al-Qaeda, is Yemen’s Main Domestic Concern, Experts Say |
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Yemen made headlines last Christmas as the training ground for the man who attempted to blow up an airplane two months ago, but a more immediate concern for the people living in the country is a rapidly dwindling supply of freshwater. |
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