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Rural India looks to past & present to meet growing water needs
2014-04-23 05:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Farmers in rural India are adopting a combination of centuries-old water storage methods and modern irrigation techniques to adapt to increasingly dry conditions. With funding from international donors, the government of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh is renovating thousands of medieval water ponds, and training farmers to use carefully targeted drip irrigation instead of flooding their fields with water. One of the converts to this mix of old and new methods is 80-year-old rice farmer...
Changing climate hits rural communities hardest
2014-04-22 08:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Leader-Post: Changing climate hits rural communities hardest David Sauchyn in his lab at the Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative with a sample from a tree which he uses to read climate changes through the years by analyzing the growth rings. Photograph by: Bryan Schlosser , Regina Leader-Post Climate change could be hitting rural communities the hardest. Rural communities are more vulnerable to extreme weather because cities have more management resources to deal with changes in climate, said Dave...
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After Soft Start, Rural Bankers See Better Economy Ahead
2014-04-17 21:24:00| Beef
The Rural Mainstreet Index rose for the second straight month in April, indicating modest rural economic growth. After moving below growth neutral in February, the rural economy moved above the 50.0 threshold for two straight months, according to the April survey of bank CEOs in a 10-state area. read more
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Center for Rural Affairs Offers Transmission Project Fact Sheets, Maps
2014-04-17 05:18:00| Transmission & Distribution World
The Center for Rural Affairs has produced a series of fact sheets and an online database for sharing information about electricity transmission line projects in the Midwest and upper Great Plains. read more
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Energy innovations for rural communities showcased by International Ashden Awards finalists
2014-04-15 01:00:00| Power Technology
The International Ashden Awards champions some of the most interesting and life-changing sustainable energy projects created at a grass-roots level for local communities. As this years finalists are announced, which five projects stand out?
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