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After soft 1Q, Badger Meter eyes opportunity in drought-ridden California
2015-04-21 21:48:33| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
The drought state of emergency in California could present opportunities for Badger Meter Inc. , which produces and sells the kind of water measuring equipment needed on more than 200,000 homes, the company's chief executive officer said Tuesday. Accelerating the installation of water meters is one of the measures being pursued by California officials to help reduce water usage.
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The California town no water: Even 'angel' can't stop wells going dry
2015-04-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Water has its own language in this town. Residents talk about nervous neighbors pulling the hose, or speculate about which houses on a street are on the line. People gripe about how neighbors use tank water to hydrate plants. That water lingo developed in this rural city of 6,700 mostly poor Latino farm workers should not be surprising. There has been a preoccupation with the stuff that comes from the tap since residents started running out of it. East Porterville is the epicenter...
California drought: LADWP's Owens Valley pumping might suffer without snowpack runoff
2015-04-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KPCC: A possible consequence of another dry winter in California: the water supplies Los Angeles can take from Inyo County may be limited. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has oversight of the water it derives from the area. Today, it releases its plan for pumping groundwater out of the Owens Valley over the next six months. In wet times -- as in the winter of 2011-2012 -- about a quarter of the L.A.'s water supply can come from Owens Valley's below ground reservoirs. But the city's...
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California drought causes cattle and elk to lock horns over pasture
2015-04-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A herd of tule elk move warily along a California coastal hill as a herd of Black Angus cattle graze nearby. Despite the apparent peaceful coexistence, the animals are at the center of a battle for precious grasslands reduced by the state's drought. Ranchers and farmers who live and work within the 71,000-acre (287-square km) Point Reyes National Seashore, 35 miles (56 km) northwest of San Francisco, want the free-roaming elk fenced in so their livestock do not have to compete for grass. Wildlife...
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4 Ways to Beat the California Drought and Save the Colorado River
2015-04-21 14:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The epic drought in California is beatable and we can save the Colorado River. All of Southern Californiaincluding the massive farm fields in Imperial County, the grapes and golf courses in the Coachella Valley and Palm Springs, and every person from Los Angeles to San Diegogets most of its water from the Colorado River. The very same drought that has hammered southern California is almost as bad across the entire Southwest U.S.including in the mountains of Utah, Wyoming and Colorado which are...
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