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Climate change puts 40% more people at risk of absolute water scarcity, study says
2013-12-17 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Water scarcity impacts people's lives in many countries already today. Future population growth will increase the demand for freshwater even further. Yet in addition to this, on the supply side, water resources will be affected by projected changes in rainfall and evaporation. Climate change due to unabated greenhouse-gas emissions within our century is likely to put 40 percent more people at risk of absolute water scarcity than would be without climate change, a new study shows by using an unprecedented...
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Don't drink it: Area boil water notices often caused by line breaks
2013-12-17 19:21:50| Waste Management - Topix.net
Boil water notices are typically issued when the pressure in a city's waterline drops under a threshold, leaving it at an increased risk for contamination.
PAKISTAN: Archroma opens sustainable water treatment facility
2013-12-17 16:54:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Specialty chemicals company Archroma has opened its first sustainable effluent treatment (SET) facility at its textile chemical site in Jamshoro, Pakistan.
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Pavillion Working Group to meet this afternoon at CWC to update water well contamination issue
2013-12-17 16:07:06| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission , will be hosting a Pavillion working group meeting in Riverton this afternoon.
Water still flows on Mars, potentially harboring life and we need to be careful not to contaminate it
2013-12-17 15:33:52| Extremetech
In recent months, NASA's Curiosity rover has confirmed that Mars, millions of years ago, used to be covered in free-flowing rivers. According to some new imagery from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and analysis by Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, however, it appears that water still flows on the surface of Mars today.
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