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WGF launches new publication series with its first report `Human rights-based approaches and managing water resources`
Many governments as well as multilateral organisations are increasingly emphasising human rights-based approaches as critical to mainstream in countries’ development policies and donor strategies. Among many water professionals and decision- makers there is generally little understanding of human rights-based approaches (HRBA) and how to apply them. There have been ample debates and ...
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EPA Invites Citizens to Talk About Plating Inc. Cleanup in Great Bend
(Kansas City, Kan., Oct. 9, 2007) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Region 7 office will hold a public availability session Thursday, Oct. 11, to discuss a Superfund cleanup action at the Plating Inc. site at the Great Bend, Kan., airport. The outdoor session will be from 10 to 11 a.m. at 8801 Sixth St., adjacent to the site in the airport industrial area. It will be conducted by Katy ...
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January is national radon action month: test for dangerous radon gas
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 is encouraging people to take simple and affordable steps to test their homes for harmful levels of radon gas as part of National Radon Action Month. Radon is an invisible, odorless, tasteless radioactive gas that comes from the natural breakdown of uranium in soil, rock, and water. It causes no immediate symptoms but is the number one cause ...
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Report shows water efficiency can help save money and the environment
Saving water in the home can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lead to lower energy and water bills, according to a new report from the Environment Agency. The greenhouse gas implication of future water resources options study analyses the carbon impact of water companies and also household water usage in the UK. The report outlines how different water supply schemes and options to help ...
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Innovative Rotork valve actuation selected for Australia’s giant clean LNG projects
Rotork flow control products have been selected for applications throughout the giant Queensland coal seam gas-to-LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) projects in Australia. To date, Rotork’s international sales network has received orders for more than 5000 valve actuators, embracing electric, electro-hydraulic, pneumatic and gas-over-oil technologies The three projects – Queensland Curtis ...
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U.S. EPA settlements require investigation of uranium contamination on Southwestern tribal lands (AZ, NM)
This week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency entered into two enforcement actions, both of which will contribute towards cleaning up uranium contamination at the Navajo Nation and Hopi Reservation. In one settlement, Rio Algom Mining LLC, a subsidiary of Canadian corporation BHP Billiton, has agreed to control releases of radium (a decay product of uranium) from the Quivira Mine Site, near ...
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Water Agencies to Make Last Push for Water Conservation in Pasadena, Three Neighboring Foothill Communities During Upcoming Shutdown of Regional Water Line, Spanning 8 Days
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California: WHAT: Local water agency officials serving Pasadena, La Cañada Flintridge, La Crescenta and Altadena ramp up plans to stretch supplies while a major regional water line is taken out of service, beginning Thursday, Feb. 21. Briefing on the upcoming 8-day shutdown of Metropolitan Water District’s Upper Feeder ...
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Water Agencies to Make Last Push for Water Conservation in Pasadena, Three Neighboring Foothill Communities During Upcoming Shutdown of Regional Water Line, Spanning 8 Days
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California: WHAT: Local water agency officials serving Pasadena, La Cañada Flintridge, La Crescenta and Altadena ramp up plans to stretch supplies while a major regional water line is taken out of service, beginning Thursday, Feb. 21. Briefing on the upcoming 8-day shutdown of Metropolitan Water District’s Upper Feeder ...
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South Florida records two driest back-to-back years
The past two years have been the driest back-to-back calendar years in South Florida since rainfall recordkeeping began in 1932, meteorologists at the South Florida Water Management District confirmed today. The 2006-2007 rainfall total of 83.63 inches district-wide displaces by nearly an inch the previous low of 84.59 inches that fell 50 years ago in 1955-56. Last year was the ninth-driest ...
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