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Determined Utility Workers Fix Stuck Valve, Averting A Shutdown
2013-07-24 19:56:30| ENR.com: Headline News
A last-ditch effort on July 16 by two Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission technicians to close a stubborn, corrosion-covered valve for water-pipeline diversion enabled the Washington, D.C., area water-wastewater utility to bypass the rapidly failing main.
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Averting Climate Change May Cost $700 Billion a Year
2013-01-21 14:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: About $700 billion a year of new spending on renewable power, low-carbon transport and energy efficiency is needed to meet the United Nations goal to cap temperature rises, a report for the World Economic Forum showed. That cash is needed in addition to the $5 trillion a year countries must spend on infrastructure for agriculture, transport, power and water through 2020, according to a report released today by the consultant Accenture Plc (ACN) for the forums Green Growth Action Alliance. This...
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Corps praised for averting Miss. River shutdown
2013-01-14 01:28:33| Food - Topix.net
Shippers who have idled towboats and lightened barge loads as the Mississippi River shrinks from drought credit the waterway's stewards for so far averting their worst fear: a potentially crippling shutdown of the artery used to move everything from corn and grain to construction materials and petroleum.
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Corps praised for averting Miss. River shutdown
2013-01-11 01:15:34| Food - Topix.net
Barge operators still are being squeezed financially because of restrictions on the waterway.
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