Canadian and American advocates join to promote big oversight idea of the “commons.”
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Water Policy | Water News
Written by Brett Walton
Thursday, 12 January 2012 13:19
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Thursday, 12 January 2012 13:19
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Decades of groundwater pumping have left one of the San Luis Valley aquifers in a perilous state. To restore its health — and the foundation of the local economy — valley leaders are developing a plan to pay farmers to fallow up to 16,000 hectares. But with commodity prices soaring, will anyone go for it, or will the state have to step in?
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Written by Nadya Ivanova
Tuesday, 10 January 2012 06:00
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012 06:00
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China is on target to begin transferring water from the Yangtze River Basin to Hebei, Shandong, and Tianjin by 2013.
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Written by Brett Walton
Thursday, 05 January 2012 06:00
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Thursday, 05 January 2012 06:00
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News headlines are often dominated by the big, unexpected events — BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, for example, or Japan’s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear catastrophes in 2011 — but some events come with advance warning. Here is a preview of the water news to look for in 2012.
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Written by Kelly Shea
Friday, 02 December 2011 15:36
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Friday, 02 December 2011 15:36
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In 2009, 3.9 billion prescriptions were dispensed in the United States, and an estimated 10 to 40 percent of medicines are not used. With 78 million baby boomers reaching the age when prescription drug use will increase, how will this affect environmental and drinking water?
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Written by Ned Breslin
Thursday, 01 December 2011 06:00
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Thursday, 01 December 2011 06:00
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Sharing failures can be just as valuable as sharing successes. Yet, the development sector more often touts its successes as indicators to donors, who, in turn, are content to think short term and tend to not ask the tough questions.
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Written by Circle of Blue
Thursday, 17 November 2011 09:16
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Thursday, 17 November 2011 09:16
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The largest reservation in the U.S. has one of the nation’s highest poverty rates and very little water infrastructure. Many residents pay nearly 50 times the municipal cost for water, which is delivered from a tank in the back of a truck, often resulting in water-borne intestinal illnesses.
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Written by Brett Walton
Thursday, 10 November 2011 14:29
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Thursday, 10 November 2011 14:29
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An estimated 10 to 40 percent of prescription and over-the-counter medicines are not used, but how to properly dispose of these drugs depends on who you ask. Since there is no continuous national program, states — and even some cites — are instituting their own regulations, but not without complaints from the pharmaceutical industry.
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Written by Dr. Peter Gleick
Wednesday, 12 October 2011 06:00
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Wednesday, 12 October 2011 06:00
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When I go to water meetings, there are serious scientific discussions about climate impacts on water systems, international conflicts over water, water quality and contamination threats, new technologies and strategies for providing basic water and sanitation for the world’s poor, and much more. But in the hallways between meetings and sessions, the real arguments are about the conflicts between public and private control and management of water.
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Monday, 23 January 2012 09:00
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One of my best friends fell victim to polio as a child, as he describes in this Frontline story from PBS.
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