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SACRAMENTO — The Chinook salmon that swim upstream in the Sacramento River to spawn in the fall have disappeared. The almost complete collapse of the richest and most dependable source of Chinook salmon south of Alaska has left fisheries experts struggling for reliable explanations — and coming up dry. Read more here. source: The New […]
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LUANDA, ANGOLA — The project for the supply of drinking water to rural areas “Water for All” will benefit about 80 percent of the country’s population, as from 2012, informed Thursday in Caxito city, northern Bengo province, the minister of Energy and Waters, Botelho de Vasconcelos. Read More here. Source: Angola Press Agency Circle of […]
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SALT LAKE CITY — For a few days Grand Canyon National Park’s chief of science and resource management, Martha Hahn, floated down mile after mile of Colorado River, marveling at aquatic habitat and shoreline that looked and acted like the Glen Canyon Dam never existed. Read more here. Source : Deseret Morning News Circle of […]
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CANTON VALAIS, SWITZERLAND — Motorists who stop to admire the magnificent Rhone glacier on the Furka Pass may soon find an unexpected attraction on offer — boat trips. Rising temperatures are melting the ice and a lake is forming at the foot of the glacier, right next to the road . Experts expect it to […]
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ZURICH, SWITZERLAND — Most of the world’s mountain glaciers, many of which feed major rivers and water supplies, are shrinking at an accelerating pace as the climate warms, according to a new report issued Monday by the World Glacier Monitoring Service, which is based at the University of Zurich and supported by the United Nations […]
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DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA — Dawasco, the local water distribution utility in Dar es Salaam, a city that suffers from chronic water shortages, has resorted to shutting off supplies to some customers who fail to pay their bills. In retaliation for this, some of the company’s employees have been abducted and beat up by government […]
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WASHINGTON D.C. — Top federal health officials said Wednesday that they had asked the Institute of Medicine, the government’s premier medical adviser, to referee a dispute over a report suggesting that pollution in the Great Lakes region may have serious health consequences for people who live there, including infant mortality and breast cancer. Source: The […]
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GABORONE, BOTSWANA — The department of water affairs, local government, waste management and pollution control, crop production, environmental health and the University of Botswana have agreed to work together to achieve global sanitation targets. They made the pledge at a press conference at Cresta Lodge on Monday, marking the National Week on Sanitation celebrations, which […]
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Turkey, Iraq and Syria have decided to bury the hatchet over water issues and cooperate by establishing a water institute that will consist of 18 water experts from each country to work toward the solution of water-related problems among the three. Read more here. source: TurkishNY.com Circle of BlueCircle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and […]
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According to a Canadian Broadcasting Company series on the privatization of water, “In the past ten years, three giant global corporations have quietly assumed control over the water supplied to almost 300 million people in every continent of the world.” This is mainly happening in Asia, Latin America and Africa now, but plans are underway […]
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Energy and water are inextricably linked, and claims on each are rising. As Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, a Circle of Blue partner, pointed out at the Global Nexus of Energy and Water panel discussion in Boston last month, water is needed for mining coal, drilling oil, refining gasoline, generating and distributing electricity, […]
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NAIROBI, KENYA — A water project in Voi Division that stalled almost 30 years ago is to be revived. The Government would soon release the Sh60 million required to complete the project, Coast provincial commissioner Ernest Munyi told a meeting at Mbololo in Voi. Read more here. Source : The Nation (Nairobi) Circle of BlueCircle […]
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