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Turkey boosts Iraq water supplies Baghdad (AFP) June 28, 2009 
Turkey has increased by more than 50 percent the flow of the Euphrates river to Iraq, the Iraqi water resources ministry said on Sunday, in a timely boost for agriculture. "Turkey increased the flow of the Euphrates today to 570 cubic metres (20,000 cubic feet) a second (m3/s) and we hope that our Turkish neighbours continue to increase water levels to guarantee irrigation for our agriculture ... read moreWater key element in Mideast peace 
Ramallah, West Bank (UPI) Jun 24, 2009 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel must address the vital issue of water in the West Bank if meaningful peace talks are to take place. Israel's leaders said nothing, but Abbas had touched on one of the most sensitive issues in the seemingly endless negotiations, which have been in abeyance for the last few years, and one on which any expectation of a comprehensive ... more
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ADB chief urges investments in water infrastructure
Singapore (AFP) June 23, 2009Investments in water infrastructure must be sustained if Asia is to succeed in reducing poverty and maintaining strong economic growth, the region's top development banker said Tuesday. Asian Development Bank (ADB) president Haruhiko Kuroda said the global economic slump should not be a reason to cut back on investment in projects aimed at increasing water supply and managing waste water. ... more Cousteau inspires Mexico's first marine observatory 
La Paz, Mexico (AFP) June 23, 2009Mexico and France launched Mexico's first marine observatory on Tuesday on the edge of one of the world's most diverse ocean ecosystems, the Sea of Cortez. The Jacques Cousteau observatory will unite scientific research on the environmental impact from humans and climate change on Mexico's coastlines, and aims to improve public policy to protect them, French and Mexican officials said. ... more Large "Dead Zone" Predicted For Gulf Of Mexico This Summer 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 23, 2009A team of NOAA-supported scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Louisiana State University, and the University of Michigan is forecasting that the "dead zone" off the coast of Louisiana and Texas in the Gulf of Mexico this summer could be one of the largest on record. The dead zone is an area in the Gulf of Mexico where seasonal oxygen levels drop too low to support ... more Dams on China's Yellow River near collapse: state media 
Beijing (AFP) June 19, 2009Several dams on China's mighty Yellow River are close to collapse just a few years after they were built amid concerns that over 40 percent of the nation's reservoirs are unsafe, state media said Friday. Shoddy construction, unqualified workers and embezzlement of funds are threatening dams' safety in the northwestern province of Gansu, the official China Daily said -- a situation that could ... more |
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Iraq faces summer water shortage disaster
Baghdad (UPI) Jun 15, 2009 Iraq is headed for an agricultural disaster this summer unless Turkey releases more water from dams on the Euphrates River, an Iraqi minister warned. Water Resources Minister Abdul-Latif Jamal Rasheed told media outlets that officials from Iraq and Turkey, where the Euphrates originates and flows through Syria, must sit down to settle the long-running dispute over river water volumes. ... more Maybe It's Raining Less Than We Thought 
Houghton MI (SPX) Jun 16, 2009It's conventional wisdom in atmospheric science circles: large raindrops fall faster than smaller drops, because they're bigger and heavier. And no raindrop can fall faster than its "terminal speed"-its speed when the downward force of gravity is exactly the same as the upward air resistance. Now two physicists from Michigan Technological University and colleagues at the Universidad ... more Obama gives US first national ocean policy 
Washington (AFP) June 12, 2009President Barack Obama on Friday set up a task force to craft the first US national policy for sustainably managing the country's oceans, drawing praise from environmentalists who said the move was long overdue. "We are taking a more integrated and comprehensive approach to developing a national ocean policy that will guide us well into the future," Obama said in a proclamation declaring Jun ... more China environmental watchdog halts dam projects: state media 
Beijing (AFP) June 12, 2009China's environmental watchdog has halted the construction of two dams on the Yangtze river, putting in jeopardy a 29 billion dollar plan to harness the waterway, state press said Friday. The Ministry of Environmental Protection shelved the plan after discovering that construction of the two dams in southwest China's Yunnan province had started without the mandated environmental approval, th ... more |
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