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Search results for "drought" ...
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A Modest Proposal To Stop Global Warming
The Sierra Magazine looks at how "the world's nations squabble over a complex fix too timid to solve" the global warming problem, and concludes that heating the globe can be stopped "by calling an end to the Carbon Age." The story reports on the financial forecasts pertaining to global warming, and warns that "unchecked climate change could bankrupt the global economy by 2065." The author describes the steps that different countries have taken initiate a global energy transition, and to criticizes the unwillingness of the United States to "lead the world in addressing climate change." The reporter finds that "George w. Bush and Dick Cheney, oilmen both, are more inclined to protect the petroleum industry's short-term profitability than to promote its inevitable transformation."
Tags: climate; floods; droughts; storms; fossil fuels; energy; politics; the Kyoto protocol
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High And Dry
Farmers in Colorado have to fight for water with developers even when the weather is good. But this summers' draught has compounded the problem. The farmers along St. Vrain river can see the precious commodity flowing past their dry fields to some developer who has paid more money for the water rights. Many had to sell their farms and cattle as it was becoming tough to survive.
Tags: farm; drought; water rights; priority number; St. Vrain
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No title (id: 7872)
San Francisco Chronicle looks at California's water problems caused by five years of drought and runaway growth; the state's demand for water is rapidly outstripping its supply, April 19, 1991.
Tags: CA Diringer Olszewski
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Trouble in Paradise
Sacramento Bee series "Trouble in Paradise" examines the erosion of the natural beauty and abundant resources of California as fast-growing population and industry encroach and pollute the land.
Tags: Natural resources; Management; Droughts; Fishing
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Tapped Out: Our Water, How We Get It, Use It, Abuse It
Los Angeles Herald Examiner looks at where water comes from, how it's allocated and how it may be contaminated in this eight-part series spurred by the two-year California drought.
Tags: chemicals; pollution; dams; reservoir; contamination wells; water tests; water quality
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No title (id: 2182)
San Francisco Bay Guardian details how reports of California's water shortage crisis are misleading; finds the state has plenty of water, but it's being badly mismanaged; while urban consumers are forced to cut back on water use, large agricultural companies get lots of water and waste much of it, Sept. 7, 1988.