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Veolia Develops Anaerboic Digestion System for Californias Napa Valley Wine Waste
2014-12-22 19:43:00| Waste Age
Veolia Water Technologies in North America has developed a $15 million anaerobic digestion (AD) system for winery and vineyard waste in American Canyon, Calif. read more
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California's Top Utility Regulator Defends Record
2014-12-19 05:02:07| Energy - Topix.net
California's chief utility regulator ended the last scheduled public hearing of his increasingly embattled 12-year term Thursday with no explicit reference to the alleged back-channel dealings with the state's largest utility company that have marred his tenure. California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey's only public reference to the matter Thursday was an enigmatic one.
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California's water woes quantified
2014-12-17 05:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Scientists have assessed the scale of the epic California drought and say it will require more than 40 cubic km of water to return the US state to normal. The figure was worked out by weighing the land from space. The American West Coast has been hit by big storms in recent days, but this rainfall is only expected to make a small dent in California's problems. Researchers described their research at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco. The US space agency (Nasa)...
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We could see more and more hot droughts like Californias
2014-12-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
FiveThirtyEight: Last week, Californias dry spell got a temporary reprieve thanks to an onslaught of Pacific storms. But the storms wont be enough to turn back the states drought - one that, researchers say, is the regions worst in the last 1,200 years. Californias drought began in late 2011 and rapidly intensified. Reservoirs stand empty, and as of this month, the U.S. Drought Monitor has classified conditions in 79.7 percent of the state as being in extreme or exceptional drought. To compare the...
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California's Drought: Don't Blame Climate Change, NOAA
2014-12-11 22:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The NOAA has just released a new report on the historic drought that has been affecting California for the last three years. Stunningly, investigators are saying that human-driven climate change is not to blame, and it is instead the consequence of natural phenomena. That comes as a big surprise, even for experts, as the ongoing drought was recently revealed to be the worst the region has seen in more than a millennium, with 2014's summer being the driest seen in a whopping 1,200 years. So...
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