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Asia–Pacific Analysis: Rain harvesting can avert crisis
To ensure South-East Asias's growing population has enough water to drink, we need to collect more rain, says Crispin Maslog. The world's next major crisis will be a lack of water for home use, including drinking water, many scientists predict. Humans can survive around 40 days without food, but much less than that without water to drink. The scarcity of water for domestic use is becoming a ...
By SciDev.Net
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Green light for Linwood Tyre Recycling Plant
The approval was given against Scottish Environment Protection Agency advice that the site was a flood risk. As a result, the planning will be called in by Scottish ministers before getting final approval.The SSH Recycling location is on a brownfield site, which shows the previous occupation was accepted.A report presented to the board said the applicant identified measures which addressed flood ...
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New IPCC report addresses risks of extreme events and disasters
It is "virtually certain" that warm weather extreme events will become more frequent this century, according to a new summary report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on 18 November. In order to explore ways of adapting to heatwaves and other extreme events potentially exacerbated in future by climate change, the IPCC has brought together a range of scientific and ...
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Fighting climate change
Due to global climate changes we experience excessive rain, long periods of drought, heat, flash flooding and landslides, which can cause severe problems to nature, populated areas and ultimately also to humans. Pipelife already faces these problems by providing different solutions to limit the effects of such events and is now happy to announce extending its waste- and rainwater management ...
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APWA Commends House of Representatives’ Passing the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act
The American Public Works Association (APWA) commends the House of Representatives for passing S.611, the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act. This legislation reauthorizes the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) Technical Assistance Program, which helps small and rural communities comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act. The House bill would authorize $15 million ...
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