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No more drought
2015-09-17 06:58:04| Waste Management - Topix.net
Jose Luna, the region's watermaster with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, will discuss the water supply at an event hosted by the Lower Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
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California Epic Drought Leads to Lowest Snowpack in 500 Years
2015-09-15 16:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The snowpack for the state of California--a critical source of drinking water for the state--hit its lowest level in the last 500 years, according to a study published yesterday in Nature. When the snowpack was measured in April--historically the high point for the season`s snowpack--it was just 6 percent of average for the past century. California`s 2015 Sierra Nevada mountains snowpack was "the worst in the past 500 years" http://t.co/v0NzH7AXdQ pic.twitter.com/v61PIWq4IG -- NYT Science (@NYTScience)...
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"This is Future:" Gov. Brown Says Climate Change, Historic Drought Contributing Extreme Fires
2015-09-15 01:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: California Gov. Jerry Brown thanked firefighters for their courage Monday as they battled with nature to stop two fires raging in California that destroyed hundreds of homes and forced tens of thousands to evacuate. "This is the future,' Brown said at a press conference Monday, warning that fires are "scary stuff' that were aggravated by a historic four-year drought and climate change. The Valley Fire, which started Saturday and grew to 61,000 acres (95 square miles) Monday or about twice the...
Scotts aims to help lawns survive California's drought
2015-09-11 12:32:21| Chemicals - Topix.net
The Marysville-based lawn and garden company released a product this summer called EveryDrop that can curb a lawn's thirst by 25 percent - helping Californians meet requirements to reduce water use while keeping their grass alive. EveryDrop is a surfactant - a chemical like soap that reduces the surface tension of water, allowing it to more evenly spread out and be absorbed.
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This drought is so bad that even Seattle is running out of water
2015-09-10 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Hey, Seattle. Remember last winter? How pleasantly warm and dry it was, almost like you live somewhere reasonable and not in a pool of tepid water near Canada? Well, youre paying for it now. In a new article on Investigate West, reporter Robert McClure looks at the future of the citys dwindling supply, and the results are Not Good. Representatives from Seattle Public Utilities showed McClure models based on simulations of future climate patterns, and the forecast is quite bleak. McClure writes:...
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