Mideast water supply requires heavy cash flow
July 24, 2008

CAIRO - In the midst of a food crisis, the Middle East and North Africa are beginning to rethink their water needs, the New York Times reports. Read more
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Oil tanker spills 420,000 gallons into Mississippi River
July 24, 2008

HOUSTON - Coast Guard officials have had to act quickly to close down twenty-nine miles of the Mississippi River near New Orleans due to an oil spill Wednesday morning, Reuters reports. Read more
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Destroying wetlands could set off “carbon bomb”
July 24, 2008
Often eyed for their development potential, wetlands contain 20 percent of the earth’s carbon and nearly 800 billion tons of greenhouse gases, an environment correspondent from Reuters reports. Read more
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Texas residents still lack water as EPA grant expires, unspent
July 24, 2008
SANTA ROSA, Texas - A recent EPA audit revealed that a $4 million grant to the city of Santa Rosa was never spent, according to a report from the Associated Press. The grant, intended to provide low-income neighborhoods called colonias with water and sewage infrastructure, expired in 2002. Read more
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Jam of jellyfish in Hudson River takes New Yorkers by surprise
July 24, 2008
NEW YORK - Whether from a lack of rain, cold water surges from the south, or waste-infused runoff, the lion’s mane jellyfish have arrived early to New York’s Hudson River, reports the New York Times. Read more
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Runaway runoff results in EPA sue-age
July 23, 2008
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida - With algae abloom in Florida waterways, five environmental groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday for what they believe is a violation of the Clean Water Act, Naples News reports. Read more
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Uranium-riddled groundwater reported in holy city of Varanasi
July 21, 2008
VARANASI, India - While India’s magical state of Jharkhand usually monopolizes headlines regarding radioactive groundwater content, a team of researchers recently made national newspaper The Hindu when they conducted a study that found a high presence of Uranium in Varanasi’s underground supply. Read more
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Once upon a time there was capitalism
July 21, 2008

LONDON-The International Herald Tribune publishes a futuristic satire on current economic, social, and environmental crises facing the globe. Read more
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What’s Colorless and Tasteless And Smells Like . . . Money?
July 17, 2008
(June 30, 2008) In a front-page take-out, Shankar Vedantam of the Washington Post walks readers through the tastes and dollars behind the bottled water industry’s efforts to “turn water into the new wine.”
Writes Vedantam: “The push to turn water into the new wine is a marketing phenomenon: The bottled-water industry is engaged in an intense effort to convince Americans that the stuff in bottles is substantially different from the stuff out of the tap.” Read more
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WHO report: Poor water & sanitation cause “9% of global disease burden”
July 10, 2008
GENEVA - According to the World Health Organization’s June 2008 report on water and health, “unsafe water, inadequate sanitation or insufficient hygiene” practices engender at least nine percent of the global disease burden. Read more
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