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January 05, 2009
- Group pushes water-conservation measures
by Jeff Alexander | The Muskegon Chronicle | Wednesday December 31, 2008.
Investing $10 billion in water-efficiency programs could play an important role in America’s “green economy,” creating as many as 220,000 jobs while protecting a priceless natural resource.
That was one of the conclusions in a new report produced by the Chicago-based Alliance for the Great Lakes, an environmental advocacy group.
“Water conservation creates jobs, saves money, cuts energy (use) and greenhouse gases, the list goes on,” said Cameron Davis, president of the Alliance for the Great Lakes. “It’s one of the rare magic wands we have in the water world.” …
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December 19, 2008
- Zimbabwe Cholera Death Toll Rises to 1,111, UN Says
By Mike Cohen and Frank Jomo
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) — The death toll from a cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe has risen to 1,111, while 20,581 people are suspected to have contracted the disease, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
“Major causes for the current outbreak continue to be a lack of clean drinking water and sanitation, weak health services” and an absence of medical staff, some of whom find it too expensive to travel to work, the agency said in an e-mailed statement from Geneva today. …
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Acidification caused by carbon emissions could bring some oceans to a tipping point.
By Peter N. Spotts | Staff writer/ December 18, 2008
Parts of the world’s oceans appear to be acidifying far faster than scientists have expected.
The culprit: rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere pumped into the air from cars, power plants, and industries.
The Southern Ocean represents one of the most high-profile examples. There, scientists estimate that the ocean could reach a biologically important tipping point in wintertime by 2030, at least 20 years earlier than scientists projected only three years ago. Among the vulnerable: a tiny form of sea snail that serves as food for a wide range of fish. …
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December 18, 2008
- Water Footprint Network Launched
On 16 December 2008, the Water Footprint Network was launched at the Corporate Water Footprint Conference, in London (UK). Scientific Director Arjen Hoekstra presented the partner organisations and companies. This initial group organisations have fully endorsed the mission of the Water Footprint Network. The Water Footprint Network and its partners strive to develop and apply the Water Footprint to support the transition to sustainable and equitable water use and management globally. …
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December 17, 2008
- Volcanoes Killed The Dinosaurs, New Evidence Suggests
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | December 16, 2008
Accepted theory holds that the dinosaurs became extinct after a large asteroid crashed into Earth, rending the environment uninhabitable. However, that theory is facing a serious challenge as evidence mounts that it may have been massive volcanic eruptions in India that ended the species: …
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