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US unemployment rate soars with water shortage
The study, released by the University of California Newsroom on August 31, 2009, reports that the state is struggling through a third consecutive year of drought and Californians `face a bleak reality: change the way we use our source water supply or face recurring cycles of economic and environmental emergencies.`Although the study focuses on California`s water crisis, the report made clear `the drought problem is not confined to California. If present climate and consumption patterns continue, two out of three people in the world will live in water-stressed conditions.`
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Key role for Landsat in water-use maps
Using Landsat imagery supplied by the U.S. Geological Survey in combination with ground-based water data, the Idaho Department of Water Resources and the University of Idaho developed a novel method to create water-use maps that are accurate to the scale of individual fields. The Ash Institute at Harvard University recently cited Idaho`s original design for these maps as an outstanding innovation in American government.
The maps are especially important in dry western states where irrigated agriculture accounts for about 85% of all water consumption.
`The USGS Landsat archive, dating back ... |
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