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Trading away sustainable water is a blow to rural Australia
2014-01-20 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Water trading cannot deal with the enormity of the problems confronting the Murray-Darling Basin. The current heatwave moving across inland Australia, the severe impacts of climate change and the years of over allocation of water for unsustainable agricultural practices add up to a massive burden that needs a planned sustainable response, not a market trading policy, which is why the Coalition's planned water sell off for the Murray-Darling Basin is a blow to rural Australia. This move will mean...
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Australia: Murray-Darling basin water sell-back plan welcomed by irrigators
2014-01-20 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Irrigators have welcomed a plan by the federal government to sell back environmental water entitlements to farmers in the Murray-Darling basin. The move comes as a large part of the basin experiences a drying-out phase brought on by extreme hot weather and below average rain during spring and summer. The National Irrigators Council says water can and should be sold and put to agricultural use without compromising the environment. "We've had some hot weather which has spiked the water use,"...
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Drought offers an opportunity to consider water policy
2014-01-19 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: So it's official: We are in a serious drought. That means this: Next comes serious flooding. But we'll still be in a declared drought. That's just the nature of California weather patterns -- and water politics. A drought proclamation, as issued by Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday, changes the political climate. It focuses public attention on the need for costly new waterworks. Therefore governors and water officials are always reluctant to declare a drought over, even when rivers again leap...
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New tests find more methane in North Texas water
2014-01-18 13:05:52| Energy - Topix.net
In this Nov. 26, 2012 file photo, Steve Lipsky demonstrates how his well water ignites when he puts a flame to the flowing well spigot outside his family's home in rural Parker County near Weatherford, Texas.
Will California frack? Not without water
2014-01-18 08:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Drilling for oil in California dates back to the late 19th Century, allowing it to become the countrys top producer by the beginning of the 20th. One hundred years later, California still ranks third, but its aging fields have been in decline for decades. Yet the state is sitting atop the largest tight oil formation in the United States. The Bakken in North Dakota and the Eagle Ford in Texas may be leading the resurgence in U.S. oil production, but the reserves sitting in Californias Monterey...
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