Desalination 'not the solution'
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Turning salt water into drinking water is not a solution to tackle global water scarcity, a WWF report says.
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 21--Year-round water restrictions could provide a lesson in conservation, but not the answer to solving South Florida's water woes, utility operators and environmentalists warned Wednesday.
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Science & environment: UK's leading food and drink manufacturers join forces in new initiative to reduce water usage
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Procter & Gamble makes a powder that purifies water, which it sells at cost to poverty stricken countries. Now it wants to sell that product for a profit in the United States.
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A chlorine alternative used in the U.S. to disinfect some public drinking water can produce a class of byproducts far more toxic than those generated by chlorine, a new study suggests.
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Oct 3 (IPS) - A novel solution has been proposed to block the  building of a controversial dam that sits over a fissure and that  environmentalists say will harm plant and animal life.
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Dredging is useful for removing contaminated material from sediment, but can't eliminate the problem, a report says.
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By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 26--An environmental crisis could disrupt water supplies throughout California for the first time since the early 1990s, threatening to end the long cease-fire in the state's water wars.
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MOUNTING pressure on the world's water supplies has the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand collaborating on a research project to address the problem.
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Some experts say that moving solar energy from niche to mainstream is unlikely without big breakthroughs.
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Drowned by lazy daisies New data published by the Met Office's Hadley research centre suggests that flooding will be an even bigger problem than anticipated for our warming planet. And it is plants that are to blame.â¦
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By The Boston Globe  Feb. 7--NANOTEcHNOLOGY -- engineering substances down to billionths of a  meter in size -- holds out such promise of providing super-strong materials or  desalinating water inexpensively that no one wants to put a red light in its  way.
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Starting today, San Antonio Water System is requesting input from  industry experts in developing the region's  new Desalination project.
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BEIJING, Sept. 11 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- In many parts of the world, good quality fresh water resources are becoming increasingly scarce.
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By Joyce Lobeck, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Jun. 20--The Imperial Irrigation and Drainage District board declared there won't be enough water by 2008 to maintain the current level of use.
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Sea level rise projections are under-estimating the impact of climate change on the oceans, a study suggest.
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You've got plenty of sunshine and running water on your patch in God's country. But the water is laced with toxins, and there are no power lines to run a water purification system. The Ecos LifeLink is a green tech mash-up, a modular system you plop down in areas lacking life support. (It is actually designed for use in homeland ...