Climate Changes During the Holocene and Their Impact on Hydrological Systems (International Hydrology) (International Hydrology Series)
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
WATER QUALITY:WATER AUTHORITIES across the State were last night engaged in emergency checks of water quality as floods posed a potential contamination risk to supplies.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
An information center related to climate change will be opened in Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon at the end of this month to serve as a base for planning preventive measures against climate change and disasters, sources with the Meteorology and Hydrology Department said on Thursday. The information center, set up at the Kyogone Forestry Directorate in Insein Township, will provide update news about...
The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
ROCKAWAY TWP. -- The Mt. Hope Biomass Power Plant, a 30-megawatt generating facility proposed for Rockaway Township, suffered a regulatory setback today when the state ruled the project was inconsistent with New Jersey’s water quality management rules. The New Jersey...
Perth FM news (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Public Meeting tonight in Loch Rannoch MP for Perth and North Perthshire Pete Wishart will tonight be holding a public meeting in the Loch Rannoch hotel. The meeting will be to discuss the public views on the proposed 'millionaire's playground' on the Dall Estate. Mr Wishart was concerned earlier this week, when it was revealed that neither the developer nor their agent had accepted his invitation....
Madville Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Dakota Water Watch has issued a report on this year's water monitoring projects around eastern South Dakota. For Lake County lakes, the news mixed: Lakes Madison and Brant showed higher than average water clarity, as measured by Secchi disk readings . Lake Herman was a little murkier than the average for all bodies of water monitored. Round Lake was really murky in the summer, but cleared up fast come...
Falmouth Packet | News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Helston's MP, Andrew George, has welcomed the news that all 24 beaches in his constituency have met the European Standard for bathing water quality.
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Paradise Cove has been ordered by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Board to pay only $54,500 of a $1.65-million penalty, a move that has angered a notable environmental group. A Malibu mobile home park that was hit with a proposed fine of $1.65 million in February for repeatedly allowing raw or partially treated sewage to spill into the ocean and local creeks will be ordered to pay a mere fraction...
LAist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Photo by rappensuncle via Flickr A state water board's administrative error has basically left a polluting company off the hook. In what Heal the Bay president Mark Gold calls "one of the most polluted beaches in Santa Monica Bay"--that would be Paradise Cove in Malibu--a mobile park owned by the Kissel Company "has been one of the largest sources of fecal pollution to the beach."...
Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
November 18, 2009 (FinancialWire) The Primoris Services Corp. (NASDAQ: PRIM) (NASDAQ: PRIMU) (NASDAQ: PRIMW) wholly-owned subsidiary, ARB, Inc., has signed a contract with the city of Riverside, California for the construction of a new simple-cycle combustion turbine (SCCT) generator power plant that will expand the existing capacity of the Riverside Energy Resource Center (RERC) to provide peak power...
THE TENSION (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
News from the U.S. Navy N ews in Balance: WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2009 -- The following news release made available Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Defense is the text of a statement regarding a decision on marine mammal use to protect Naval Base Kitsap: The Navy announced today its decision to install a swimmer interdiction security system at Naval Base Kitsap (NBK) Bangor, Wash., that will employ...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The bill is designed to improve the UK's resilience to future flooding threats that are likely to be intensified by climate change The flood and water management bill is designed to improve the UK's resilience to future flooding threats that are likely to be intensified by climate change . The government said the bill will continue implementing the recommendations of Sir Michael Pitt's report after...
The Green Changemakers (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
http://eeweek.org In the United States, generating power consumes 3 percent of our nation's water annually and 13 percent of the energy produced in this country each year is used to treat, transport and heat our water. Conserving water saves energy, and vice versa. The water-energy connection is complex, but it provides an excellent opportunity to get students thinking about the interrelatedness of...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
All eight bathing beaches in Lincolnshire pass water quality standards set by the Environment Agency.
First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Park City, UT - Utah's Deer Valley Resort kicks off its winter ski season again with its annual Deer Valley Celebrity SkiFest, Dec. 5-6. The invitational ski event pairs former Olympic ski legends with television and film celebrities for a weekend of skiing, live music and fundraising for the environmental group Waterkeeper Alliance, which supports and empowers Waterkeeper member organizations to...
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
A severe drought believed to have been caused by the El Niño phenomenon has threatened water supplies in Bolivia, and has depleted the water level in Lake Titicaca. Lake Titicaca is very close to reaching its lowest level ever recorded since 2003. [Felix Trujillo, Employee, National Meteorology and Hydrology Service]: "…The lowest level in history was in 1943 and today we are 43...
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