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EPA awarding US$2.8m to help protect Western estuaries and Watersheds
On December 9, 2008, the US Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 (EPA) began soliciting proposals under Region 10’s West Coast Estuaries Initiative (WEI) to support the protection and restoration of high valued aquatic resources in coastal areas threatened by growth pressure. The grant program emphasizes local, holistic watershed protection and management approaches. Grant funds will assist local and tribal governments in managing land uses while protecting watershed functions and values. Successful projects will match proposed activities to the appropriate watershed scale to ensure environmental ... |
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Irrigation key for Africa’s food security – Diouf
Water management is `a key element` in food security, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf told a ministerial conference on Water for Agriculture and Energy in Africa: the Challenges of Climate Change which opened this week. The conference is organized by FAO, as the Chair of UN Water, together with the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Government and in collaboration with stakeholders including the African Union, the African Ministers` Council on Water Development, the African Development Bank and the Economic Commission for Africa. During the three-day conference ministers from 53 African countries will ... |
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