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The Sierra Club reports on how excess nutrients make our water unhealthy. Read more here. Source: Sierra Club Circle of BlueCircle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises. www.circleofblue.org/about/
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We all know that water is good for us, but often the reasons are a little fuzzy. And even if we know why we should drink water, it’s not a habit that many people form.But there are some very powerful reasons to drink lots of water every day, and forming the habit isn’t hard, with […]
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MUNICH, Germany — An inventor from Munich, Germany, Stephan Augustin, has created and trademarked a device called the Watercone®. It is a simple, lightweight, easy-to-use solar-powered water desalinator that takes salt or brackish water and generates freshwater in just 24 hours. Read more here. Source: The Sietch Blog Circle of BlueCircle of Blue provides relevant, […]
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COLONIA BORQUEZ, MEXICO — Adaptation, or the matter of adjusting to climate change, is sometimes called a cheaper, easier way to deal with some of the consequences of a warming world. But consider the battle between the United States, Mexico and Canada that was triggered here amid the vegetable farms near the California border. Read […]
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NEW YORK, NY — Locals say this city makes the world’s best bagels from the best water, piped in from rustic reservoirs up to 150 miles north. Yet few know of a secret ingredient in their source water: a dash of pharmaceuticals. Read more here. Source: Associated Press Circle of BlueCircle of Blue provides relevant, […]
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WASHINGTON, DC – Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using “unmonitored and potentially unsafe” water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company, the Pentagon’s internal watchdog says. Read more here. Source: Associated Press Circle of BlueCircle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and […]
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LONDON — The British government will be taking it from the tap starting this summer. Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government will phase out bottled water in all of its departments. Read more here. Source: The Canadian Press Circle of BlueCircle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises. www.circleofblue.org/about/
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“Half of the waters in the United States are at risk of pollution or destructive development because of a wrongheaded Supreme Court decision in 2006,” the New York Times writes in an editorial today. “The decision narrowed the scope of the Clean Water Act, weakened the law’s safeguards and thoroughly confused the federal agencies responsible […]
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BEIJING — Beijing’s vice mayor Ji Lin said on Friday the Olympic host city has stepped up with water recycling to ensure sufficient supplies during the Games. “We’re already using recycled water in sanitation,” he said on the sideline of the First Session of the 11th National People’s Congress. The Olympic Games, opening on Aug. […]
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MELBOURNE — Melburnians should expect to live with water restrictions even after large projects like the desalination plant and the north-south pipeline are established, according to one of Victoria’s most senior water officials. Read more here. Source: The Age Circle of BlueCircle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource […]
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MANITOWOC, Wisconsin — State legislators must move quickly to pass the Great Lakes Compact to block communities from outside the region from accessing the lakes’ water, Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton said Wednesday. Lake Michigan “sparkles like a jewel, and we can see the lust for it,” said Lawton, speaking in front of a 143-foot yacht […]
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AUSTIN, TX — “The Unforeseen,” a new documentary by Laura Dunn, co-produced by Robert Redford, explores the subject of unchecked development and its impact on environmental sustainability. The film, which won acclaim from critics at the Sundance Film Festival, is based on the example of Barton Springs in Austin, TX, which flows into an aquifer […]
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