Tag: sustainability
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Karrigan’ Börk’s Award-Winning Water Rights Solution
The Colorado River supplies water to seven U.S. states for more than 35 million people and irrigates more than 5 million acres of crops. (Getty) Law Professor Wins Morrison Prize for Most Impactful Sustainability-Related Legal Paper in North America Karrigan Börk, UC Davis professor of law and Associate Director at the Center for Watershed Sciences,…
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Delano water bottling plant prompts concerns over exporting native groundwater
Photo: This sign greets motorists in Delano. Felix Adamo/ The Californian News of the new Niagara Bottling plant going up in Delano hit the local groundwater agency with surprise and alarm. The plant is permitted to use 1.6 million gallons of groundwater per day, according to a will-serve letter issued by the city in August 2022. That works out…
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Addressing the Environmental Impact of Cannabis Cultivation: A Focus on Sustainable Practices
Growing cannabis, both indoors or outdoors, impacts the environment in several significant ways and one challenge of today’s cultivators is to consider how to lessen the negative effects of overwatering, pesticides, energy usage, and plastic pollution. Environmentally conscious cannabis cultivation has been a concern for years. For example, in response to the environmental destruction from…
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Opinion: Finding a new path to water conservation for the next millennium, for California and the world
Photo: Concrete intake towers revealed by receding Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam in Nevada. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) In the long sweep of human history, water has always played a central role in determining the geography of civilizations, and eons ago it influenced the migration of our early ancestors out of Africa and across…
