Aquatic canaries - using fish to test city water

Taipei, Taiwan - Singaporean scientists have developed a simple automated way to monitor city water supplies: use a computer to watch fish. Read more

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Lake Victoria beset by environmental problems

Kisumu, Kenya - Lake Victoria, the largest freshwater lake in Africa, is shrinking, dropping some six feet in the last four years. Over 30 million people in three East African nations depend on the lake’s water for their livelihoods and biologists fear that if the overdraw from the lake doesn’t decrease, Victoria could surfer from serious ecological problems. Read more

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Despite promises, Sacramento tops U.S. daily average for water use

Sacramento, CA - Even after promising to reduce water consumption significantly in 2000, the majority Sacramento’s water regions failed to meet the 16 conservation goals set-up. Only one region met all the goals and collectively they failed meet even half the goals. Instead, water consumption in Sacramento actually increased in the last eight years, topping the U.S. national average for water use. Read more

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New life for dry sea

KOK ARAL, Kazakhstan - There is not a drop of water to be seen around the port of Aralsk — a silent testament to decades of Soviet experiments with nature that have turned the Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth largest lake, into a salt-encrusted desert. Read more

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California drought forces farmers to take extreme action

CALIFORNIA - In the midst of the worst drought in 15 years, California farmers are taking drastic measures to save their crops and their livelihoods, Bloomberg reports. Read more

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North Pole May Be Ice Free for First Time This Summer

The Arctic could be ice-free this summer for the first time in known history, National Geographic reports. The freeing of Arctic ice wasn’t predicted to happen until at least 2013, but last year’s summer conditions have expediated the process. If the ice-melts, new passages for shipping will temporarily open, but the ecological costs could be castrophic. Read more

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Water crisis could collapse Chinese capital

BEIJING - Beijing’s water crisis is so critical that the city is facing economic collapse and the need to resettle part of its population in coming decades, a leading development policy group said Friday. Read more

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Frigid Future for Ocean in Saturn’s Moon

Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of Saturn, may not be as wet and warm at its core as scientists had hoped. The tiny moon, whose diameter is roughly 500 km across, could fit in the length of the United Kingdom. Read more

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Lake levels won’t be fixed soon

STURGEON BAY, Wisconsin - Any possible large-scale engineering project that might help raise water levels on Lake Michigan and Lake Huron is decades away, a representative of an international study group says. Read more

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Vanishing Lake Chad — A Water Crisis in Central Africa

by C.T. Pope

Once the third-largest source of freshwater in Africa, Lake Chad is disappearing according to new satellite images — putting millions of people in four Central African countries at risk of losing their primary water supply. Read more

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