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Water in the bank: One solution for drought-stricken California
2015-05-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Saguaros and palo verde trees flourish in the Sonoran Desert northwest of Phoenix along the road to Hieroglyphic Mountains Recharge, one of the Central Arizona Projects groundwater banking sites. The shallow ponds, fed at one end by a burbling fountain, may look static, but the water is percolating down through the soil at a rate of about 3 feet a day, replenishing underground aquifers. The 38-acre Hieroglyphic site is part of a statewide water-banking effort in Arizona that has stored around...
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Drought-Stricken California Exempts Big Oil and Big Ag from Mandatory Restrictions
2015-04-02 19:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The April 1 snowpack assessment in California, which set an all-time record for lowest snowpack levels in the states history, finally spurred Governor Browns office to issue an executive order to residents and non-agricultural businesses to cut water use by 25 percent in the first mandatory statewide reduction in the states history. But some groups have been exempted from the water restrictions, specifically big agriculture, which uses about 80 percent of Californias water, and oil companies....
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Drought-Stricken West Gives Rise to Old World Cows
2015-03-15 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The cows weren't acting like cows. In the remote reaches of Mexico's Copper Canyon, miles from the nearest road or settlement, a moving speck on a steep rock wall caught Alfredo Gonzalez's eye. "I thought, that couldn't be a cow, maybe a goat,' the longtime ranch manager and animal scientist. "The canyon goes straight up and down. But when we looked with binoculars, there they were: Criollos walking on the canyon walls.' Bingo. Criollos. Gonzalez and a former colleague from the Jornada Experimental...
In Drought-Stricken California, Market for Canada Gas Emerges
2015-03-02 14:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Driven out of their best U.S. markets by the shale boom, Canadas gas producers are turning to the power-hungry West Coast. Canadian gas shipments to Washington state are the highest seasonally since at least 2008, and exports through a border point in Eastport, Idaho, surged in November to a winter record, data compiled by Genscape Inc. show. Demand from California gas-fired power plants is increasing as a drought now in its fourth year cuts hydroelectric production. A flood of low-cost Marcellus...
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Drought-Stricken Cape Verde Receive Animal Feed, Crop Seeds
2015-02-20 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CAPE VERDE - The FAO will provide food crop seeds, animal feed and drip irrigation equipment to help thousands of people in Cape Verde whose food security and livelihoods are at risk following a sharp fall in crop production due to drought.
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