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KENYA: Athi River textile city to revive sector
2014-06-02 10:39:36| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) has welcomed Government plans to create a textile industry hub at the export processing zone in Athi River town, saying it will boost backward integration in the country's clothing sector.
06.25: Building the Columbia River Highway: They Said It Couldn't Be Done
2014-06-01 16:38:06| Powells Books Events Calendar
When 900-foot ice age floods carved the Columbia River Gorge through the Cascade Mountains to the sea, little space was left for man to form a highway of his own. It took an artist-poet-engineer extraordinaire to conquer this reluctant piece of real estate and produce the nation's first scenic highway. Ride along with Peg Willis as she explores the beginnings of this miracle highway and the men who created it in Building the Columbia River Highway (History Press).
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Record low river flows show need for improved water planning
2014-05-31 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Banner-Herald: Theres not as much water in the Oconee River as there once was, and theres going to be less in the future, according to a Georgia Tech professors study. The amount of water going down the Oconee River has declined about 20 percent in the past 50 years, according to Aris Georgakakos, director of the Georgia Water Resources Institute at Tech. Hes recorded similar declines in the Chattahoochee-Flint and other Georgia river basins. And the declines area likely to be even steeper in coming...
Black globs in Snake River remain a mystery
2014-05-30 19:56:39| Waste Management - Topix.net
Balthasar Buhidar of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality says samples have been sent for testing but results will take at least a w We live in SW Fruitland and only had a few marble-sized hailstones, but I could tell by the constant thunder and the brownish color of the clouds that there was going to be hail in this storm--when I took ... (more)
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OPB: Portland funds study of Columbia River levee repairs
2014-05-30 15:51:45| PortlandOnline
News story posted to opb.org May 28, 2014.
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