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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:01:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Inverse flood risk modelling under changing climatic conditions]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Inverse_flood_risk_modelling_under_changing_climatic_conditions</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Inverse_flood_risk_modelling_under_changing_climatic_conditions</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:01:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Hydrology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the most significant anticipated consequences of global climate change is the increased frequency of hydrologic extremes. Predictions of climate change impacts on the regime of hydrologic extremes have traditionally been conducted using a top-down approach. The top-down approach involves a high degree of uncertainty associated with global circulation model (GCM) outputs and the choice of d<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Malaysian dam project threatens world heritage park: activists]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Malaysian_dam_project_threatens_world_heritage_park_activists</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Malaysian_dam_project_threatens_world_heritage_park_activists</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:58:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Malaysian_dam_project_threatens_world_heritage_park_activists</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Malaysia's plan to build a series of hydroelectric dams on Borneo island threatens the World Heritage status of a key national park, environmentalists warned Wednesday.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Power of Water]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Power_of_Water</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Power_of_Water</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:39:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Fluid Mechanics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Watch how water coming out of hoses can lift a car.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EPA, water board must get money to colonias]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=EPA_water_board_must_get_money_to_colonias</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=EPA_water_board_must_get_money_to_colonias</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:33:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Planning and Management</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=EPA_water_board_must_get_money_to_colonias</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When many of us think of Texas, we probably have in our mind's eye images of big cities and all their modern ways.For some, though, Texas remains a throwback to the Depression, when running water and indoor plumbing were scarcities in rural communities. Hard as it is to imagine, modern-day settlements known as colonias still sometimes lack those basics.It all depends on whether the develo<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Argentine Glacier Breaks in Winter]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Argentine_Glacier_Breaks_in_Winter</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Argentine_Glacier_Breaks_in_Winter</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:09:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Every two to four years, the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glacieres National Park, Argentina breaks apart. It's a spectacular sight that attracts thousands. This year, for the first time in memory, the breakup took place during the southern hemisphere's winter.  VOA's Paul Sisco has more.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Next Step in California's Central Valley Flood Management: Connecting Costs and Benefits]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=The_Next_Step_in_Californias_Central_Valley_Flood_Management_Connecting_Costs_and_Benefits</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=The_Next_Step_in_Californias_Central_Valley_Flood_Management_Connecting_Costs_and_Benefits</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:01:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Historically, large expanses of California's low-lying Central Valley flooded nearly every winter. Over the past 150 years, individuals, communities, and state and national agencies have increasingly altered the landscape with levees, reservoirs, and bypasses to support agriculture and urban centers. The Central Valley's flood protection infrastructure and the institutions that manage flood risks<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[System for Treating Flue Gas Desulfurisation Scrubber Wastewater]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=System_for_Treating_Flue_Gas_Desulfurisation_Scrubber_Wastewater</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=System_for_Treating_Flue_Gas_Desulfurisation_Scrubber_Wastewater</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:48:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Water Quality</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=System_for_Treating_Flue_Gas_Desulfurisation_Scrubber_Wastewater</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Scrubbers are used in U.S. power plants to meet emissions standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Flue gas systems frequently use limestone-forced-oxidation (LSFO) scrubbers to convert SO2 in the flue gas to gypsum, which can be sold for wallboard manufacturing, cement additive, or agricultural applications, thus turning a waste stream into a usable resource.The prope<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Let it rain: Simple barrel technology captures water, helps environment]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Let_it_rain_Simple_barrel_technology_captures_water_helps_environment</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Let_it_rain_Simple_barrel_technology_captures_water_helps_environment</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:58:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Let_it_rain_Simple_barrel_technology_captures_water_helps_environment</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Fort Loudoun Lake Association is promoting the idea of capturing rain using the &quot;simple barrel technology&quot; to water lawns, gardens and trees before it literally washes down the drain<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Last Three Gorges Dam migrants evacuate as water rises]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Last_Three_Gorges_Dam_migrants_evacuate_as_water_rises</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Last_Three_Gorges_Dam_migrants_evacuate_as_water_rises</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:33:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[China has finished evacuating the last town to be submerged by the giant Three Gorges Dam, making way for water levels in the reservoir to rise to their final height of 175 metres above sea level, state media said.The final residents of Gaoyang in central Hubei province left on Tuesday, the end of an exodus that began four years ago, the official Xinhua agency reported.In total, some 1.4 <br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Worldwide Water Resources]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Worldwide_Water_Resources</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Worldwide_Water_Resources</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:24:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Hydrology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Territory size shows the proportion of all worldwide freshwater resources found there.Water resources here include only freshwater, because saline (sea) water requires treatment before most uses. Only 43 600 cubic kilometres of freshwater is available as a resource each year, despite more than twice this amount falling as precipitation (rain and snow). Much is lost through evaporation. Those <br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[International Flood Initiative (IFI)]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=International_Flood_Initiative_IFI-1</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=International_Flood_Initiative_IFI-1</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:05:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=International_Flood_Initiative_IFI-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The International Flood Initiative (IFI) is a joint initiative in collaboration with such international organizations as UNESCO (IHP), WMO, UN/ISDR, UNU, IAHS, IAHR, ICLR,  IIASA and ICHARM. The official website of the International Flood Initiative (IFI) has been launched on July 14 by the IFI Secretariat at the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM).<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Florida to Georgia.: Water war not just about mussels]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Florida_to_Georgia-_Water_war_not_just_about_mussels</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Florida_to_Georgia-_Water_war_not_just_about_mussels</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:31:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[loridians upset by the lower flows coming down the Apalachicola River from Georgia made a clear point Monday: The tri-state battle over water isn't just a case of people vs. mussels.Over and over again, people speaking at a forum organized by U.S. Rep. Allen Boyd, D-Fla., accused Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue of trivializing the river's importance to Florida by saying Georgia's need for drinking <br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fifty Years Without Running Water]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Fifty_Years_Without_Running_Water</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Fifty_Years_Without_Running_Water</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:24:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[2004 was a big year in Coal Run. After half a century of discrimination, neglect, and bureaucratic runaround, the residents of the mostly-black neighborhood outside Zanesville, Ohio finally got running water. 2008 will be a landmark year too: earlier this month, a jury in the US District Court in Columbus found that racial discrimination lay behind the lack of services, and awarded the affected r<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Alaska: Homes without running water turn to soda]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Alaska_Homes_without_running_water_turn_to_soda</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Alaska_Homes_without_running_water_turn_to_soda</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:45:18 PDT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Alaska_Homes_without_running_water_turn_to_soda</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Citizens of rural Alaskan villages without running water consume three times as much soda daily as Alaskan citizens with access to clean running water, according to a July 20 Anchorage Daily News article.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Researchers find key to saving the world's lakes]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Researchers_find_key_to_saving_the_worlds_lakes</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Researchers_find_key_to_saving_the_worlds_lakes</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:44:49 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Water Quality</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Researchers_find_key_to_saving_the_worlds_lakes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[After completing one of the longest running experiments ever done on a lake, researchers from the University of Alberta, University of Minnesota and the Freshwater Institute, contend that nitrogen control, in which the European Union and many other jurisdictions around the world are investing millions of dollars, is not effective and in fact, may actually increase the problem of cultural eutrophi<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Happy Fish Go Hungry?]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Happy_Fish_Go_Hungry</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Happy_Fish_Go_Hungry</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:44:10 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Water Quality</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Happy_Fish_Go_Hungry</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Study finds that striped bass exposed to antidepressant Prozac shun food and become easier prey<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Water pact will deplete Great Lakes, expert fears]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Water_pact_will_deplete_Great_Lakes_expert_fears</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Water_pact_will_deplete_Great_Lakes_expert_fears</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:39:02 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Planning and Management</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Water_pact_will_deplete_Great_Lakes_expert_fears</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A pact designed to preserve the Great Lakes is in reality a &quot;slippery slope&quot; that threatens severe harm to the world's largest body of fresh water, a top U.S. environmental lawyer has warned Canadians.&quot;In effect, a precedent is being set, in that it allows for the commercialization of water. You are privatizing it,&quot; James Olson said yesterday of an agreement among eight Great Lakes states now<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UK: Tidal power feeds electricity to National Grid in world first]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=UK_Tidal_power_feeds_electricity_to_National_Grid_in_world_first</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=UK_Tidal_power_feeds_electricity_to_National_Grid_in_world_first</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:33:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Miscellaneous</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=UK_Tidal_power_feeds_electricity_to_National_Grid_in_world_first</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The first ever commercial electricity powered by the tides has been put on the National Grid, project managers said today.The £10million SeaGen turbine based in Northern Ireland's Strangford Lough generated enough green energy to supply 150 homes in a test. Full-blown production is expected in a few weeks' time.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Just how pure is bottled water?]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Just_how_pure_is_bottled_water</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Just_how_pure_is_bottled_water</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:05:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Just_how_pure_is_bottled_water</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How much do you know about what's in that water bottle? Here's a quiz to find out.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wetlands could unleash carbon bomb]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Wetlands_could_unleash_carbon_bomb</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Wetlands_could_unleash_carbon_bomb</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:58:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Wetlands_could_unleash_carbon_bomb</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The world's wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming &quot;carbon bomb&quot; if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said on Sunday.Wetlands contain 771 billion tons of greenhouse gases, one-fifth of all the carbon on Earth and about the same amount of carbon as is now in the atmosphere, the scientists said before an international conferen<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facing the Freshwater Crisis: Scientific American]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Facing_the_Freshwater_Crisis_Scientific_American</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Facing_the_Freshwater_Crisis_Scientific_American</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:31:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Facing_the_Freshwater_Crisis_Scientific_American</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The August 2008 issue of Scientific American features 'Facing the Freshwater Crisis' by Peter Rogers.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UK: Channel 4 censured for misrepresenting scientists on climate change]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=UK_Channel_4_censured_for_misrepresenting_scientists_on_climate_change</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=UK_Channel_4_censured_for_misrepresenting_scientists_on_climate_change</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:09:02 PDT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=UK_Channel_4_censured_for_misrepresenting_scientists_on_climate_change</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Channel 4 misrepresented the views of some of the world's most distinguished scientists in a documentary claiming that global warming was a conspiracy, the broadcasting watchdog has ruled.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tidal power]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Tidal_power-1</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Tidal_power-1</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:33:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Fluid Mechanics</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Tidal_power-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A little animation which shows how tidal power works.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Africa's Double Dip of Global Warming]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Africas_Double_Dip_of_Global_Warming</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Africas_Double_Dip_of_Global_Warming</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:05:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Africas_Double_Dip_of_Global_Warming</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How does it feel if you have the least contribution to global warming but be the most affected by it?<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[California: Water levels will be lowest in 30 years]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=California_Water_levels_will_be_lowest_in_30_years</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=California_Water_levels_will_be_lowest_in_30_years</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:18:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Planning and Management</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=California_Water_levels_will_be_lowest_in_30_years</guid>
<description><![CDATA[California's second-largest storage reservoir will end this year with the lowest amount of water in more than 30 years, Department of Water Resources Director Lester Snow said Monday.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[US: Aging sewers threaten environment, public health]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=US_Aging_sewers_threaten_environment_public_health</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=US_Aging_sewers_threaten_environment_public_health</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:09:02 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Water Quality</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=US_Aging_sewers_threaten_environment_public_health</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Deteriorating pipes, overwhelmed by volumes of water they were never designed to carry, release billions of gallons of raw sewage into rivers and streams each year. The spills make people sick, threaten local drinking water and kill aquatic animals and plants.Hundreds of municipal sewer authorities have been fined for spills since 2003, according to a Gannett News Service analysis of EPA data<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Adding Lime to the Sea to Reduce Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere and Preventing Ocean Acidification]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Adding_Lime_to_the_Sea_to_Reduce_Carbon_Dioxide_in_the_Atmosphere_and_Preventing_Ocean_Acidification</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Adding_Lime_to_the_Sea_to_Reduce_Carbon_Dioxide_in_the_Atmosphere_and_Preventing_Ocean_Acidification</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:09:02 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Water Quality</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Adding_Lime_to_the_Sea_to_Reduce_Carbon_Dioxide_in_the_Atmosphere_and_Preventing_Ocean_Acidification</guid>
<description><![CDATA[he idea works like this:    * First, you heat limestone to a very high temperature, until it breaks down into lime and carbon dioxide.    * Then you put the lime into the sea, where it reacts with carbon dioxide dissolved in the seawater.The important point is that when you put lime into seawater it absorbs almost twice as much carbon dioxide as is produced by the breaking down of the l<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Patos Lagoon outflow within the Río de la Plata plume using an airborne salinity mapper]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Patos_Lagoon_outflow_within_the_R%EDo_de_la_Plata_plume_using_an_airborne_salinity_mapper</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Patos_Lagoon_outflow_within_the_R%EDo_de_la_Plata_plume_using_an_airborne_salinity_mapper</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:09:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Fluid Mechanics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Major river systems discharging into continental shelf waters frequently form buoyant coastal currentsnext term that propagate along the continental shelf in the direction of coastal trapped wave propagation (with the coast on the right/left, in the northern/southern hemisphere). The combined flow of the Uruguay and Paraná Rivers, which discharges freshwater into the Río de la Plata estuary (Lat.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reclaimed wastewater benefits Florida's citrus orchards]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Reclaimed_wastewater_benefits_Floridas_citrus_orchards-1</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:24:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Planning and Management</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Reclaimed_wastewater_benefits_Floridas_citrus_orchards-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Sunshine State has seen rapid growth in population during the last 50 years. The 1997 U.S. Census showed that the population of Florida increased more than five-and-a-half times from 1950 to 2000. Naturally, along with population increases, Florida is experiencing an increase in the amount of municipal waste. Studies confirm that the amount of wastewater generated by cities in Florida has inc<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Milwaukee: Building water power]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Milwaukee_Building_water_power</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Milwaukee_Building_water_power</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:09:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Planning and Management</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Milwaukee_Building_water_power</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The region\'s water expertise is a marketable asset that should be invested in and grown. The region cannot wait. The competition is keen.With gasoline at $4 a gallon, it\'s hard to think of a commodity more precious than oil. And yet around the world, the biggest risk to human wellbeing isn\'t from lack of oil. It\'s from lack of safe drinking water and adequate sanitation. And those dire needs <br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate dynamics and fluid mechanics: Natural variability and related uncertainties]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Climate_dynamics_and_fluid_mechanics_Natural_variability_and_related_uncertainties</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Climate_dynamics_and_fluid_mechanics_Natural_variability_and_related_uncertainties</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:35:39 PDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Fluid Mechanics</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Climate_dynamics_and_fluid_mechanics_Natural_variability_and_related_uncertainties</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The purpose of this review-and-research paper is twofold: (i) to review the role played in climate dynamics by fluid-dynamical models; and (ii) to contribute to the understanding and reduction of the uncertainties in future climate-change projections. To illustrate the first point, we review recent theoretical advances in studying the wind-driven circulation of the oceans.next term In doing so, w<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Water Projects Boom Again After 43-Year Layoff]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Water_Projects_Boom_Again_After_43-Year_Layoff</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Water_Projects_Boom_Again_After_43-Year_Layoff</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:35:37 PDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Miscellaneous</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Water_Projects_Boom_Again_After_43-Year_Layoff</guid>
<description><![CDATA[DENVER (AP) ― Nearly $3 billion of ambitious new water projects along the Front Range are in various stages of launching -- from completing a lengthy federal permitting process to actually breaking ground.The pending boom includes seven new or expanded reservoirs and at least one major pipeline. Barely recovered from the 2002 drought and with projected shortages looming, the water d<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Positive Proof of Global Warming]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Positive_Proof_of_Global_Warming</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Positive_Proof_of_Global_Warming</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:24:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Miscellaneous</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Positive_Proof_of_Global_Warming</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Let global warming happen!<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Economist warns against rushing water projects in Australia]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Economist_warns_against_rushing_water_projects_in_Australia</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Economist_warns_against_rushing_water_projects_in_Australia</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:00:02 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Planning and Management</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Economist_warns_against_rushing_water_projects_in_Australia</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A Canberra economist says Canberra should not consider upgrading its water infrastructure until the price of water is made flexible.&quot;Certainly we have a lack of water but we have a lack of water as a function of the price,&quot; he said.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Scientists study impact of glacier melt on rivers]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Scientists_study_impact_of_glacier_melt_on_rivers</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Scientists_study_impact_of_glacier_melt_on_rivers</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:48:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Miscellaneous</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Scientists_study_impact_of_glacier_melt_on_rivers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists study the link between climate change, shrinking glaciers on Mount Rainier and flooding on rivers such as the Nisqually.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Israel-Hamas standoff deepens water woes]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Israel-Hamas_standoff_deepens_water_woes</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Israel-Hamas_standoff_deepens_water_woes</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:33:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Water Quality</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Israel-Hamas_standoff_deepens_water_woes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Severe water contamination in the Gaza Strip is worsened by Israeli blockades, say many Palestinians.Five hundred yards south from where hundreds of children play in the water next to this refugee camp, a pipe spills 20 million liters of raw sewage into the Mediterranean Sea each day.Between 105 and 120 million liters of sewage are generated daily in Gaza. Of that, only 20 million liters <br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blue Planet Run]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Blue_Planet_Run</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Blue_Planet_Run</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:05:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Miscellaneous</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Blue_Planet_Run</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A book about the world's rapidly disappearing source of clean water.Watch the video<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dry times revive an old debate]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Dry_times_revive_an_old_debate</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Dry_times_revive_an_old_debate</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:33:02 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Planning and Management</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Dry_times_revive_an_old_debate</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Californians are sweating out drought by debating conservation versus usage.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[California water planning needs to get moving]]></title>
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<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=California_water_planning_needs_to_get_moving</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:01:02 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Planning and Management</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=California_water_planning_needs_to_get_moving</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature are fighting over the direction of the state's water planning again. This time, each has some good points - and some unrealistic expectations. The best solution, and unfortunately the one that is least likely to happen, would be for both of them to get out of the way.California's water planning has been paralyzed for decades now, and a big part o<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Recycling rain water: Green or greedy? Saving rain: How much is too much?]]></title>
<link>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Recycling_rain_water_Green_or_greedy_Saving_rain_How_much_is_too_much-1</link>
<comments>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Recycling_rain_water_Green_or_greedy_Saving_rain_How_much_is_too_much-1</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:57:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Hydrology</category>
<guid>http://www.siswebs.org/water/story.php?title=Recycling_rain_water_Green_or_greedy_Saving_rain_How_much_is_too_much-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[On a nonprofit Woodinville farm devoted to sustainable practices, rain hits a green shed roof covered in a carpet of herbs and moss.Drops run down a chain into four weathered barrels, draining to a small pond ringed by cherry trees, huckleberry bushes and native plants.It's a system the 21 Acres farm wants to create on a much grander scale when it breaks ground next year on an agricultura<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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