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Water Wars Threaten America's Most Endangered Rivers
2016-04-12 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Conflict over water is intensifying, as shown by these 10 rivers at risk. Some solutions are in sight. The Apalachicola River is part of a drainage basin in the Southeast that is taxed by a growing population and conflict between states. What do two rivers in the Southeast and California have in common? Both are threatened by battles over their water. The Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Basin in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida tops a new list as the most endangered river in the U.S. this...
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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 Wars: Repub Only Ones Who Don't Link Drought And Climate Change
2015-08-03 01:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: The historic California megadrought has now dragged on into its fourth year and a new study shows Republicans are the only ones who think it has nothing to do with climate change. Two-thirds of Californians think global warming helped caused the drought, but 62 percent of Republicans disagree with that, according to a new study by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute. In fact, a third of Republicans, 31 percent, said the world would never see any effects from climate change. "The threat...
Novelists, Directors Respond as Water Wars Loom
2015-05-22 15:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Item: In a recent blog post at the New Yorker magazine, staff writer Dana Goodyear surveys the current drought impacting California and writes: Its hard to escape the feeling we are living a cli-fi novels Chapter One. Item: Edward L. Rubin, a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville, surveys the ongoing California drought in an oped at Salon magazine, writing: As the California drought enters its fourth year, it is threatening to strangle the splendid irrigation system that...
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Water wars between Florida, Georgia advance at U.S. Supreme Court
2014-11-04 00:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Florida's water war against Georgia advanced as the U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an interstate dispute on whether Atlanta's suburbs are sucking dry the river flow that feeds the oyster beds and fisheries of the northern Gulf Coast. Georgia had sought to dismiss the suit, filed last October by Florida Governor Rick Scott, that stems from a decades-old fight over Atlanta's daily demand for 360 million gallons of water from the Chattahoochee and Flint river basins. Florida blames...
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