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The Colorado River: A Lifeline Running Dry
A drought in the western United States created a battle over resources, as private landowners compete with the public over access to freshwater supplies. In April of 2015, California’s governor, Jerry Brown, announced a series of mandatory restrictions, forcing residents to reduce their water usage by 25 percent in the coming year. But despite playing…
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Kenya’s Water Women
In the western Kenyan town of Kakamega and the nearby village of Sisokhe, social worker Rose Atieno and nurse Catherine Ondele are using rainwater-harvesting technology to bring clean water to villages. As Atieno says, the men in rural villages make the water policies, but it is the women who feel the “pinch”: collecting water is…
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Senegal’s Sinking Villages
Doune Baba Dieye was once a vibrant fishing community on the Langue de Barbarie, a narrow, 30km peninsula that has protected the Senegalese port city of Saint-Louis from the Atlantic Ocean for centuries. But changing weather patterns and heavy rainfall in 2003 led to flooding inland and a rise in sea levels that have now…
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Iran’s Water Crisis
https://players.brightcove.net/665003303001/SJg0bzqkZ_default/index.html?videoId=5204278242001&usrPersonaAds=false It is hard to imagine life without access to sufficient quantities of fresh water, but in some parts of the world, particularly the Middle East, that is becoming more than a theoretically disturbing possibility, as climate change, mass migration, environmental degradation, drought and political instability – among other issues – make the use and…
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NOAA and partners team up to prevent future Great Lakes drinking water crisis
Video of Preventing a Great Lakes Drinking Water Crisis A new video SMART BUOYS: Preventing a Great Lakes Drinking Water Crisis released by Ocean Conservancy describes how NOAA forecast models provide advance warnings to Lake Erie drinking water plant managers to avoid shutdowns due to poor water quality. An inter-agency team of public and private…
