Everglades restoration deal is kept alive with contract extension in massive plan to buy land Florida water managers have approved a contract extension for a bold plan to buy land from the nation's largest cane sugar producer for Everglades restoration. The board ...
<div><p>Parts of the world may have to be abandoned because severe water shortages will leave them uninhabitable, the United Nations environment chief has warned.</p><p>Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, said water shortages caused by over-use of rivers and aquifers ...
<div><p><p>Founded in 1932, Barclay Water Management, Inc., has found great success through the principle that, ultimately, water treatment is a relationship-driven business. Headquartered in Watertown, MA, the organization manufactures and supplies environmentally friendly water treatment chemicals and equipment for controlling chemistry in ...
<div id="subtitle">Snake Valley — and its ranches, tribes and park — has chance of defeating Water Authority request</div><div><p> State engineer Tracy Taylor has played it down the middle so far, giving the Southern Nevada Water Authority about half the water it wanted ...
<div><p>Back in the mid-1980s, the people of Boston were faced with a dilemma. Water demand in the area had exceeded its supply's "safe yield" - the cut-off point where a water source is depleted beyond its ability to be replenished naturally.</p><p>One option ...
<div><p> Southern Nevada residents used 5.2 billion fewer gallons of water in 2008 than in 2007, the biggest year-to-year drop since 2003, when a drought plan and higher water rates went into effect.</p><p>With Clark County in the grip of a drought that ...
<div id="subtitle">Fla. water board approves less expensive deal to buy farmland in Everglades</div><div><p>The board of the South Florida Water Management District has approved changes to a deal to buy U.S. Sugar Corps' land in the Everglades.</p><p>Gov. Charlie Crist ...
<div id="subtitle">Water authority says renegotiating Nevada’s take won’t increase our share because climate change is slowing the flows</div><div><p> Nevada’s share of the Colorado River is so small that it seems only logical that a rewriting of the 80-year-old law that divvies up ...
<div id="subtitle">Water board takes step toward banning septic tanks in Malibu, raising concerns about sprawl</div><div><p>Water regulators have taken a step toward banning septic tanks in the heart of Malibu, Calif., after a battle over bacterial pollution at popular beaches.</p><p>Residents ...
<div><p> The closing of University Medical Center’s outpatient cancer clinic, a possible quarter-cent reduction in the sales tax and safety at North Las Vegas Airport are among the issues up for discussion by Clark County commissioners this week.</p><p>What’s the latest on the ...
