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Fountain Quail Water Management Secures Private Equity Commitment
2016-02-17 02:11:07| oilandgasonline Home Page
Fountain Quail Water Management, LLC (“Fountain Quail”) recentlyannounced that it has secured a private equity commitment of up to $40M to expand its North American operations.
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El Nio leaves 100 million people short of food and water worldwide
2016-02-17 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Severe droughts and floods triggered by one of the strongest El Nio weather events ever recorded have left nearly 100 million people in southern Africa, Asia and Latin America facing food and water shortages and vulnerable to diseases including Zika, UN bodies, international aid agencies and governments have said. New figures from the UNs World Food Programme say 40 million people in rural areas and 9 million in urban centres who live in the drought-affected parts of Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South...
MDEQ lifts one water contact advisory for the Mississippi Sound, but not two others
2016-02-16 22:19:13| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has lifted a water contact advisory in Ocean Springs for Front Beach from the Yacht Club to Jackson Avenue. However MDEQ still has an advisory in place in Ocean Springs for Shearwater Beach from Weeks Bayou to Ashley.
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Global Water Shortages May Be Far Worse than We Thought
2016-02-16 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Safe Bee: A new study found that about two-thirds of the worlds population, or some 4 billion people, face severe water shortages during at least one month of every year. Half of the 4 billion are in India and China, but people in other countries, including the United States and Mexico, are also affected. Most water is used for food, so water scarcity primarily translates to decreasing or failing crop yields, wrote study co-author Mesfin Mekonnen in an email to SafeBee. Mekonnena is postdoctoral researcher...
Four Billion People Suffer From Severe Water Scarcity World Wide
2016-02-16 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Nearly 66 percent of the world's human population suffers from insufficient access to fresh water for at least one month out of the year. This estimate, which equates to about four billion people, is far greater than scientists thought. Previously it was believed that that between 1.7 and 3.1 billion people lived with moderate to severe water scarcity for at least one month of year. However, in the latest study, led by Dr. Arjen Hoekstra of the Netherlands' University of Twente, researchers used...
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