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Water & Wastewater Newsletter February 24, 2011 |
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Measuring forestry`s impact on water availability
Undertaken by a team of CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship scientists for the National Water Commission (NWC) and Forest & Wood Products Australia, the project developed modelling tools to provide greater confidence in estimating the impact of new plantations on catchment stream flow. Australia`s blueprint for water reform – the National Water Initiative (NWI) – recognises that a number of land-use change activities have the potential to intercept significant volumes of surface and/or groundwater now and in the future. The Commission commissioned CSIRO to ... |
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Urban Farmers use Untreated Wastewater
Domestic and industrial effluent combined with domestic waste in the urban watercourses of Nairobi is widely perceived as the causes of stench and disease. This is not the case for the thousands of urban farmers who have come to embrace the waste in urban farming, stocking grocery shops in the city with leafy vegetables, succulent oranges and large potatoes. This blossoming market is dominated by women from the informal settlements, who transport their produce to the city centre to cash in on thousands of Nairobians who wish to buy groceries after leaving their place of work. Globally, ... |
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