Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments: Four Case Studies of Water Utility Practices (External Review Draft) | Climate Change: Impacts & Adaptation | US EPA
New preliminary draft report from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, now available for public review until Oct. 7.
"This report presents a series of case studies describing the approaches currently being taken by four water utilities in the United States to assess their vulnerability to climate change. The report is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of assessment approaches or util
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World Water Map: Who Has Access to Water?
This map shows how many people in each country have access to safe drinking water. Most countries can provide safe drinking water for nearly all of their people. Unfortunately, there are still many places in Africa and Southeast Asia that do not have enough access to safe drinking water, with a majority of the people in these nations being forced to use unsafe water or boiling the water make it s ... read more >>
China halts shipping through Yangtze dam as water level rises
AUTHORITIES HAVE stopped shipping through China’s massive Three Gorges Dam on the upper reaches of the country’s longest river, the Yangtze, because the dam was due to experience another flood peak yesterday.
Water levels at the world’s largest hydroelectric project have been at high levels for weeks from record rains in its upper reaches, causing some of the worst flooding for decades.
The
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New bacteria degrades oil faster, in deep, cold water: study
A new species of bacteria found in the Gulf of Mexico degrades oil faster at deeper and colder depths than expected, scientists said Tuesday in a study that could explain how the BP oil spill has mostly disappeared.
The bacteria not only speeds up the bio-degradation of crude oil, but does it without depleting vital oxygen levels in the water, said the scientists who analyzed in May a plume of
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In New Orleans, Ring of Protection Is Close to Completion-Will new levees keep New Orleans above water?
Nearly five years after Katrina and the devastating failures of the levee system, New Orleans is well on its way to getting the protection system Congress ordered: a ring of 350 miles of linked levees, flood walls, gates and pumps that surrounds the city and should defend it against the kind of flooding that in any given year has a 1 percent chance of occurring. ... read more >>
Water Cycle Jump - Hydrology Hip-Hop
Hydrologic cycle hip-hop video from Bill Nye the Science Guy. ... read more >>
Emily Green's The Week That Was, 15-21 August 2010 - And More! - WaterWired
Another excellent weekly compendium of water world events awaits us once again from the mind of Emily Green.Yes, it is time for another The Week That Was, 15-21 August 2010.
So what is this a picture of? Looks like something from my old stratigraphy and sedimentation book (remember Krumbein and Sloss?). Emily will tell you its significance. Looks like I should have saved some of those cross sec
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Peter H. Gleick: Where Did Our Water Go? Trading Public Water Fountains for Private Bottled Water
First it was Central Florida University, which built a 45,000-seat football stadium with no (that's right, zero) water fountains. And at their very first game in September 2007, 18 people went to the hospital and another 60 were treated at the stadium for heat-related problems. I describe this remarkable story in Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water.
Then, the sp
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