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The reactor building, centre, dominates the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, Iran, Wednesday Feb. 25, 2009.
(photo: AP / Hasan Sarbakhshian)
Britain's nuclear strategy threatens destruction of Kalahari
The Observer
| The hidden cost of Britain's new generation of could be the destruction of the Kalahari desert in and millions of tonnes of extra greenhouse gas emissions a year, the Observer has discovered.= | The desert, with its towering sand dunes and spectacular lunar-like landscapes, is at the centre of an ...

(photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Thirsty Plant Dries Out Yemen
The New York Times
| JAHILIYA, Yemen - More than half of this country's scarce water is used to feed an addiction. | Even as drought kills off Yemen's crops, farmers in villages like this one are turning increasingly to a thirsty plant called qat, the leaves of which are chewed every day by most Yemeni men (and some w...
Water wars show we should all work together
WN / Bhaskar Mallick
Water wars show we should all work together
The Times
| So far there have been very few violent international conflicts over water - the record between states is good. But this may change and two areas are already causes for concern. ...
Water - Conservation
WN / Rubielyn Bunag
Jordan faces up to water crisis
BBC News
| The man in charge of Jordan's fast depleting water resources says Jordanians don't have much of a choice. | "We have no surface water left, no rivers, no lakes - nothing wha...
Aquatech Assigns Local Marcellus Shale Point Person
redOrbit
Posted on: Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 06:35 CST | CANONSBURG, Pa., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Chuck Kozora, Regional Business Development Manager, has been appointed the key point contact role within Aquatech for topics relating to the treatment of the ...
Forests in the desert: the answer to climate change?
The Guardian
| Climate change could be cancelled out in a staggeringly ambitious plan to plant the Sahara desert and Australian outback with trees | One day, this could all be trees … a recent scientific paper claims that turning deserts into forests is the bes...
BMC forms squad to check water waste in Government offices
DNA India
| Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will keep a tab on Government offices to ensure water is not wasted. "We have decided to form a squad of junior engineers who will visit government offices once in 15 days to check how much water...
 SA 'sitting on a time bomb'
Independent online
| With Durban running the risk of water restrictions, Water Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica says it is "totally unacceptable" that between 35 and 40 percent of piped water in big cities is being lost to theft or leaky pipes. | She told a provincial ...
Maldives announces windfarm plan to provide 40% of island's electricity
The Guardian
| Windfarm would provide the island state with the largest percentage of renewable electricity of any country in the world | The Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed stands in the sea off Kurumba to show the threat the islands face. Photograph: Chiara ...
Thirsty Plant Dries Out Yemen
The New York Times
| JAHILIYA, Yemen - More than half of this country's scarce water is used to feed an addiction. | Even as drought kills off Yemen's crops, farmers in villages like this one are turning increasingly to a thirsty plant called qat, the leaves of which a...
Hydropower
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, the Three Gorges Dam Project discharges water to lower the water level in the reservoir in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Owing to the excessive rainfall upstream on the Yangtze River, the influx into the Three Gorges Reservoir reached 33,000 steres per second early Tuesday. Thus, the Three Gorges Project started its flood-control program this year. (js1)
(photo: AP / Xinhua/Du Huaju)
China's Three Gorges Dam comes of age
Asia Times
| By Antoaneta Bezlova | BEIJING - Fifteen years after dynamite blasts first shattered the peace of China's breathtaking Three Gorges, the Three Gorges Dam - the pride of China's engineering progress - is nearing completion. But the cannonade of criticism bombarding the world's largest and costliest dam in history is far from over. | In a matter of...
Water Pollution
The Minister of State for Environment and Forests (Independent Charge), Shri Jairam Ramesh releasing the Climate Change Agenda of Delhi 2009-2012, in New Delhi on November 05, 2009. 	The Chief Minister of Delhi, Smt. Sheila Dikshit is also seen.
(photo: PIB of India)
Jairam ticks off Delhi Govt. over Yamuna pollution
The Hindu
| Special Correspondent | 'Waste flows untreated due to the low utilisation of the treatment plants' | Some Plain Talk: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh (right) with Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit during the release of "Climate Change Agenda for Delhi 2009-2012" on Thursday. | NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for E...



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