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Iran Faces Dangerous Water Crisis as Temperatures Rise, Are the People to Blame?

2014-06-03 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: As summer presses on and temperatures rise, water scarcity in Iran is becoming a national emergency. Iran is facing a critical shortage of water as arid temperatures rise with the encroaching summer season. According to Future Directions International (FDI), an independent strategic analysis group based in Australia, the country of Iran began to experience notable water supply drops in 2013, with lower-than-average precipitation levels leaving the great majority of the region's dams and waterways...

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Water Crisis Hasn't Affected Real Estate Market Yet

2014-02-24 09:08:02| Real Estate - Topix.net

Since the water crisis started, we've heard concerns of living in West Virginia and threats of leaving the state, but at least so far, the real estate market isn't seeing that happen.

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Chemical Company In West Virginia Water Crisis Files For Bankruptcy

2014-01-17 23:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: Freedom Industries, the West Virginia company that's been blamed for a chemical spill that left around 300,000 people without water for days, has filed for bankruptcy. The chemical used in cleaning coal leaked into the Elk River and into the public water system. It was only around midday Friday that West Virginia American Water online "water safety map" all blue, as Mark reported for The Two-Way earlier today. But the all-clear came with some caveats, as some residents were told not to risk drinking...

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Officials Kept Mum About Water Crisis Fix Plan in Prince George's County

2013-07-18 21:50:18| Energy - Topix.net

Water officials in Maryland knew that they may have averted a crisis that threatened to leave hundreds of thousands of people without water for days, but they kept mum for hours to ensure their fix worked.

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As Gaza heads for water crisis, desalination seen key

2013-06-26 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A tiny wedge of land jammed between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean sea, the Gaza Strip is heading inexorably into a water crisis that the United Nations says could make the Palestinian enclave unliveable in just a few years. With 90-95 percent of the territory's only aquifer contaminated by sewage, chemicals and seawater, neighborhood desalination facilities and their public taps are a lifesaver for some of Gaza's 1.6 million residents. But these small-scale projects provide water for...

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