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Water Resources
Greening up from the top down
EPA hopes benefits of its roof garden will nurture similar projects
Sep 5, 2006, 11:00
Water Resources
Northern Nevadans Don't Want to Gamble With Their Water
WHITE PINE COUNTY, Nev. -- Las Vegas is a parched desert city in a four-year drought, with new residents pouring in at a rate of at least 5,000 per month. So water officials plan to tap a great system of aquifers that form underground lakes in a swath across Nevada, some of them hundreds of miles away.
Aug 15, 2006, 08:20
Water Resources
Liquid Manna? Treating Urban Wastewater for Local Gardening (Senegal)
Like urban centres all across Africa, the population of metropolitan Dakar in Senegal has mushroomed over the past three decades. As more and more people crowd into the city — an average of 120,000 per year — the demand for urban services has also increased, outstripping the city’s capacity to build the infrastructure necessary to meet the needs of the new arrivals.
Aug 11, 2006, 09:12
Water Resources
Does Levy Coast face inundation?
University of Florida botany professor Jack Putz said area residents need to look no further than the Levy County coastline for evidence of global warming.
Aug 7, 2006, 21:36
Water Resources
New Yorks Water Supply May Need Filtering
New Yorkers are endowed with certain inalienable rights, among them bragging about the citys water so pure it doesnt need to be filtered, so delicious it is better than bottled.
So it may surprise, perhaps even insult, proud residents to hear that federal officials are worried that the fabled water coming from the largest unfiltered system in the country is getting muddier and may have to be completely filtered, at a cost of billions of dollars, if it cannot be kept clean.
Jul 22, 2006, 08:01
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