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Innovative rainwater harvesting in Texas gets well-deserved praise
2016-03-31 17:58:00| Beef
Alan Newport A Texas rancher and a county livestock facility have won awards in Texas for their rainwater capture systems. read more
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Poverty and hunger will not end without better rainwater management
2014-09-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The world will fail to meet international targets to eradicate poverty and hunger unless countries improve the way they use rainwater, which billions of people depend on to grow food, leading water experts said. More than two billion of the world's poorest people live in the driest "hot spots', including Africa's Sahel region, parts of India, northern China and parts of Brazil. These regions, which also have the world's highest population growth rates, depend on unpredictable rainfall. But these...
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Rainwater harvesting: dismissed by Texas voters but embraced by business
2013-11-07 00:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Texas voters last night approved the creation of a water bank expected to fund nearly $30bn in water infrastructure projects in the coming decades. The passage of Proposition 6 means the state will begin putting its 2012 State Water Plan which calls for more than $50b in spending on new water infrastructure by 2060 into action. The project list is heavy on big new pipelines and reservoirs (including a controversial $3.3bn reservoir in East Texas to service the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex 170...
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Rainwater Resources
2013-04-19 00:52:06| PortlandOnline
The following City of Portland bureaus have resources to help you learn more about collecting rainwater.
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