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Better Water Use Can Cut Global Food Gap
2016-02-17 20:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Although growing human numbers, climate change and other crises threaten the worlds ability to feed itself, researchers believe that if we used water more sensibly that would go a long way towards closing the global food gap. Politicians and experts have simply underestimated what better water use can do to save millions of people from starvation, they say. For the first time, scientists have assessed the global potential for growing more food with the same amount of water. They found that...
Michigan's Water Wars: Nestle Pumps Millions of Gallons for Free While Flint Pays for Poisoned Water
2016-02-17 17:57:29| Waste Management - Topix.net
As Flint residents are forced to drink, cook with and even bathe in bottled water, while still paying some of the highest water bills in the county for their poisoned water, we turn to a little-known story about the bottled water industry in Michigan. In 2001 and 2002, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality issued permits to NestlA©, the largest water bottling company in the world, to pump up to 400 gallons of water per minute from aquifers that feed Lake Michigan.
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Water Cooled Transformers
2016-02-17 10:08:00| Railway Technology
A white paper showcasing F.E.EM's key products, as well as the benefits of flat winding techniques for applications in the rail industry.
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A simple way to prevent African water wars
2016-02-17 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: The first stage of Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance dam project is fast approaching its end. At 70 metres high, the dam is just 25 metres shy of the target for this stage of the project. Come June, it will be able to store the 14 billion cubic metres (BCM) of river water needed to kick the first turbines into action. [1] With two out of the 16 planned turbines up and running, the dam will generate 700 megawatts of electricity per year. And by late 2017, all turbines will produce 6,000 megawatts of power,...
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Wonkblog: Flint's poisoned water was among the most expensive in the country
2016-02-17 08:48:37| Automakers - Topix.net
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