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US city gets approval to draw water from Great Lakes
2016-06-23 00:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TribuMagaine: The eight Great Lakes governors gave unanimous approval June 21 to Waukesha's proposal to divert 8.2 million gallons of Lake Michigan water daily. "We greatly appreciate the good faith they showed in focusing on the facts and science of our application". Communities in states completely outside the Great Lakes Basin, such as Arizona or California, are still prohibited from withdrawing water. The city then treats and diverts the water to the Mississippi River Basin. Great Lakes officials have...
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Great Lakes Governors To Vote On Waukesha Water Diversion
2016-06-22 23:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TribuMagaine: Great Lakes Governors To Vote On Waukesha Water Diversion In addition, 11 of Michigan's members of Congress urged Gov. Rick Snyder to veto the diversion request. Narrow or not, Ullrich said many Great Lakes mayors are concerned about the decision and will be considering their options. "While we acknowledge that Waukesha must address the radium in its drinking water, we maintain Waukesha can safely meet its community's drinking water needs now and well into the future without a diversion...
Children's Clean Water Festival
2016-06-22 19:42:28| PortlandOnline
The Portland Water Bureau is a sponsor of this annual event for Portland-area 4th-graders
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Sea levels rise, Rotterdam floats to the top as an example of how to live with water
2016-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PRI: The Maeslant structure is the biggest mobile barrier in the world -- picture a pair of steel lattices twice the size of the Eiffel Tower, lying down on either side of the channel connecting the Netherlands second-biggest city to the North Sea. The Dutch built the massive gate in the 1990s to protect Rotterdam from a storm surge of up to three meters. Series: Living with Rising Seas The oceans are rising. Untold millions in coastal cities around the world are threatened. But the Dutch are proving...
Traditional irrigation keeps water flowing in drought-hit India
2016-06-21 10:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Ask the farmers in remote Baksa district, in the northeast Indian state of Assam, whether they are affected by climate change and they usually respond with a look of surprise. Across much of India, farmers are struggling to adapt as their crops fail season after season as a result of increasingly unpredictable and often dry weather. But in Baksa, along Assams border with Bhutan, farmers have never seen their harvest ruined by drought or delayed rainfall, despite having no access to irrigation...
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