Category: Solutions
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In water-scarce Southwest, ancient irrigation system disrupts big agriculture
Water in the American Southwest has never been abundant. Its availability fluctuates depending on conditions like drought and mountain snowpack that feeds streams and rivers. But experts predict a future of greater extremes: longer and hotter heat waves in the summer, less precipitation, decreased snowpack, and more severe and frequent droughts that will place greater…
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U.S.A. and Mexico agree to share a shrinking Colorado River
Photo: People in Mexico gather to watch as the 2014 pulse flow moves across the dry Colorado River Delta. National Geographic Creative / Alamy Stock Photo On a sunny March morning in 2014, dam operators lifted a gate on the Morelos Dam on the Colorado River, at the U.S.-Mexico border. Water gushed toward the river’s…
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Researchers develop 4-in-1 smart utilities plant for tropical climates
Photo: A research team including Dr Md Raisul Islam (left) and Associate Professor Ernest Chua from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National University of Singapore Faculty of Engineering has developed a 4-in-1 smart utilities plant that produces electricity, water, air-conditioning and heat in a more environmentally friendly and cost-effective way using a single, integrated…
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Teaching Your Kids to Save Water
How to teach to your kids to save water? The first thing you have to teach your children about water is that it comprises 70% of their body. This fact might come as a shock to them at first, but it will also drive the point home. Water is one of the essential elements of…
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Opinion: Desalination plant in Southern California is important to water security
Photo: Workers prepare a desalination plant for service at the Charles Meyer Desalination Facility in Santa Barbara this year. (Jim Gensheimer/Bay Area News Group) Climate change is all around us. Extreme weather conditions including recent Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria demonstrate the intensity and impact of climate change on our environment. We’ve seen California and…
