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Search results for "water shortages" ...
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Soldiers At Risk: Iraq Water Investigation
With temperatures rising up to “130 degrees or more” a day, why would the military be rationing water to only 2 liters a day per person? The answer is a water shortage. As a result, some soldiers are reporting from “serious physical problems with their kidneys, nerve degeneration, and even serious brain damage”. Further, some of these conditions went on for up to a year.
Tags: Iraq; Wars; medical professionals; officers; Army; Veterans Administration; defenders; troops
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"The Middle Kingdom's Dilemma" and "China's Pollution Revolution"
In this series, the author investigates "the emergence of a grassroots environmental movement in Communist China." In "The Middle Kingdom's Dilemma," the author reveals a plan by the State Council to divert an amount of water that is greater than the total volume of water from the Yangtze River. In "China's Pollution Revolution," Larson writes about a poluuting factory and its negative impact on nearby residents.
Tags: Communist China; grassroots environmental movement; water shortages; pollution; environmental laws; international
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In Short Supply
An investigation in the Express-News looks into the fact that "Texas is headed toward a crisis when it comes to meeting its future water needs." As the population continues to grow, the water supplies have not kept pace, and state officials says Texas will have "18 percent less water and twice the number of people by 2060 if it continues on its current course."
Tags: Texas Panhandle; water shortage; drought; water crisis; water supply; population outpacing resources
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Rural water
Rapid, largely unregulated growth in rural Arizona threatens to overwhelm limited water resources, exposing entire communities to shortages and leaving thousands of homeowners with no guarantee of a stable water supply. The risk stems in part from a finite resource that is already overtaxed, but the real danger arises from the inability of the state and local governments to manage water and growth together.
Tags: growth; rural Arizona; water resources; urban sprawl; water supply; state government; local government
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Running Dry
Douglas County is one of the fastest growing counties in the Denver area and one of the richest areas as well. In this report, investigations reveal that the water in the surrounding area is fast receding, contrary to predictions that the area has water supply to last 100 years. Officials predict an acute water shortage problem in the next 10-20 years. Homebuyers though are not being told of this situation and elected officials have not acted to the warnings signs.
Tags: Douglas County; water shortage; Colorado water shortage; water drawn from aquifers; Water Wise Council of Colorado
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Leasing the Rain
As fresh water resources continue to deplete and privatization increases, more and more people are facing the hard facts of a water shortage. Finnegan examines some of the numbers outlining this growing problem and looks at a few cases where the clash between necessity and privatization of resources has already begun.
Tags: Water; drought; natural resources; privatization
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Not Wet Enough: Even in the most unlikely places, local governments are grappling with demands for water that exceed existing supplies. And conservation isn't turnng out to be easy or cheap.
Many cities with blooming populations expect to suffer from a water shortage in the near future. This article explains how different city governments are preparing to deal with the issue.
Tags: American Water Works Association; AWWA; shortage; drought; groundwater; aquifers
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The Story of Sprawl
"A city is composed of four elements: water, land, buildings and people. Urban areas function when these elements combine in the right proportions. Too much or too little of any one, and the city develops the signs of strain: overcrowding, water shortages, jammed highways. As North America's third-fastest-growing city, Toronto is not immune." Reporter John Lorinc reports on the urban sprawl of Toronto and raises the question of possible solutions.
Tags: developers; Ontario Municipal Board; urban; growth; cities; housing; Credit Valley Conservation Authority; property; environment
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Water, Water Everywhere
According to a recent United Nations report, one-sixth of the world's population--one billion people--lack access to clean water, and that number is expected to double in the next 30 years. "A number of areas could enter a period of chronic shortages during this decade, including much of Africa, northern China, pockets of India, Mexico, the Middle East and parts of western North America."
Tags: Water; pollution; endangered rivers; fish; contamination; conservation
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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.