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America’s Water Infrastructure: Leaking into the Future
In order to appreciate the challenges of water purification, it is important to understand the history of water treatment. The following link: The History of Water Treatment has a very nice summary of the “significant historical events forming the basis … Continue reading
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Tagged aquifers, climate change, food population, groundwater, North America
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Drought in West Africa’s Sahel Region will turn into a Humanitarian Disaster
This post comes from a recent article on Professor Van Cotthem’s Desertification blog (and can also be found on the Resource page of this blog). Unfortunately, West Africa is again in the news. In spite of large infusions of humanitarian … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, climate change, drylands, food population, sustainability
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Groundwater Awareness: United States
There is a very interesting article in the March issue of WaterWorld magazine. It provides a succinct overview of the importance of groundwater to small towns and municipalities throughout the country as well as for agricultural irrigation. It’s not that … Continue reading
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Tagged aquifers, climate change, energy, groundwater, human blunders, North America
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