Tag: commercial use
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America uses 322 billion gallons of water each day. Here’s where it goes.
Photo © iStockphoto.com/iofoto From cooling power plants to quenching thirst and growing crops, water is part of everything we do. February 22, 2019 — As climate change, urban development, irrigation and other factors are altering the availability of water, it’s important to understand how we use water on a daily basis in the U.S. —…
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Changes in water consumption linked to media coverage
Public awareness of water- and drought-related issues is an important yet relatively unexplored component of water use behavior. To examine this relationship, we first quantified news media coverage of drought in California from 2005 to 2015, a period with two distinct droughts; the later drought received unprecedentedly high media coverage, whereas the earlier drought did…
