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Mideast Water Wars: In Iraq, A Battle for Control of Water
2014-08-25 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: There is a water war going on in the Middle East this summer. Behind the headline stories of brutal slaughter as Sunni militants carve out a religious state covering Iraq and Syria, there lies a battle for the water supplies that sustain these desert nations. Blood is being spilled to capture the giant dams that control the regions two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. These structures hold back vast volumes of water. With their engineers fleeing as the Islamic State (ISIS) advances, the...
Tetra Tech Wins $23M U.S. EPA Water Contract
2014-08-25 07:55:45| pollutiononline Home Page
Tetra Tech, Inc. announced recently it has been awarded a five-year, $23M single-award contract with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to assess and reduce the human health and ecological risk from contaminated fish, sediments, and water-borne pathogens in fresh and marine waters
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Amarinth Supplies Water Recirculation Pumps To Masdar In Abu Dhabi To Service Its Green City In The Desert'
2014-08-25 07:50:37| chemicalonline Home Page
Amarinth, a leading company specialising in the design, application and manufacture of centrifugal pumps and associated equipment to the Oil & Gas, petrochemical, chemical, industrial and renewable energy markets, is leveraging the knowledge from its carbon reduction pump project to supply new pumps into Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, the world’s most sustainable eco-city.
Lebanon sceptical of 'save water' effort
2014-08-24 03:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Plastered across billboards, flashing across television screens, and splashed on pamphlets and stickers, a new message is suddenly everywhere you look in Lebanon: "If you love me, save me some water." This year, in an attempt to mitigate a growing water crisis, the Ministry of Energy and Water has encouraged people to turn off their taps and conserve precious drops. But according to Lebanon's National Water Sector Strategy (NWSS), which was adopted by the government in 2012, only approximately...
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Serengeti Wildlife to access Lake Victoria's water as climate change looms large
2014-08-23 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
eTurbo News: However, Bunda Legislator and a cabinet minister, Mr. Stephen Wasira, doesnt buy this idea, maintaining that the people were legitimate inhabitants in the area and should not be evicted. Mr. Wassira, who is a Minister of State in the President's Office (Social Relations and Coordination), proposed that TANAPA in collaboration with the ministry of Tourism and Natural Resources to establish a Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Ghuba Speke. "What is necessary is free movement of wildlife, and...
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