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A conservative crusade centered on bathrooms and dishwashers has sabotaged one of the government's most effective tools for fighting climate change. 
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City utility workers just uncovered wooden water mains that were installed more than 200 years ago.
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More than 50% of water used in US beef production is dedicated to irrigating the row crops that become feed for cattle. By using new irrigation technology, farmers, can greatly reduce the amount of water needed for row crop irrigation and improve the environmental impact of the beef supply chain, the companies say. Via EcoVadis
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June 5, 2018 7:43 AM
The Smart-weather sensor technology - expected to conserve up to 2.4 billion gallons of irrigation water over three years - will enable farmers to make more informed irrigation decisions. A good step to responsibly utilised our natural resources.
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Cadiz seeks to create a loophole in an 1875 railroad law to drain an ancient desert aquifer without any federal oversight.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Draining aquifers is something we are supposedly trying to put into the past her win California. Not greenlighting with federal nepotism.
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Take a flight in the Luscombe over the Oroville Spillway just prior to overtopping.
PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
February 12, 2017 1:10 PM
Climate change is giving us both increased droughts and increased rainfall events in climate crazy California. Both of these situations have been long predicted, driven by the unprecedented anthropogenic greenhouse gas build-up in our atmosphere. Oroville is the tallest dam in the United States and (thanks to the intense precipitation this year) the focus of national attention and concern over infrastructure in the wake of a climate changed world. The most recent estimate pegs the repair of the eroding concrete channel at perhaps $100-200 million (and we are only in early February). See also these refs: nice overview/explanation of the current conditions at the dam: https://youtu.be/jIzldNLv8ww erosion video: https://youtu.be/d56oKCmjMHM Agency update: https://youtu.be/P87mjrohSpk Construction of the Oroville Dam: https://youtu.be/p_5udzKfLQM
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The country's largest agricultural water district, Westlands, maintains that California has plenty of water. It's just mismanaged.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is the consequence of directed efforts to fight environmental regulations via methods demonizing those seeking to make sure we have a healthy, long-term life-support system that perpetuates the remnants of the ecosystems that have thrived in California for many thousands of years.
Very sad state of affairs. The fact people seek to stoke political wars rather than seeking true solutions that are sustainable and just is pathetic.
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Humans are doing a pretty good job of seriously messing up our drinking water.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Well, these are important point to be sure, but we have left off the most important ones: aggregate human population and gross consumption/draw downs of water sources.
These six are threat to be sure, but "biggest".......?
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We've put together a series of popular landscape options, along with information on how they fare against the traditional Californian lawn in five areas.
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Want to know which cities suffer from water stress? The Nature Conservancy has published a list of the top 20 of cities with water stress. Over 500 cities around the world were investigated. In (big) cities like Tokio, Shanghai and LA, a large number of people in a relatively small area puts a lot of pressure on water supplies, especially during times of drought.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
We often hear about how efficient our cities are, with low per capita carbon footprints and energy consumption. But hidden in here is the simple fact that with these masses of humanity, we need to supply huge amounts of materials and energy flows to sustain the often many millions of individuals and all their associated activities.
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In this week's cpolumn, Kevin O'Marah, Chief Content Officer at SCM World, focuses on the issue of water scarcity He highlights how Coca-Cola has reached its water reduction targets's five years ahead of schedule, revealing an accelerating trend among operations and supply chain people to take on the really big problems facing us all, including not only environmental sustainability but also human health and hunger Via Acquisti & Sostenibilità not-for-profit
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20,000 shade balls released into L.A. reservoir. #shadeballs #shade #balls Follow @pourmecoffee for shade balls news pic.twitter.com/rATHAc6Kg8— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) August 11, 2015 Los Angeles lakes and reservoirs: they just seem...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is an old technique. I first recall seeing these when James Cameron filmed "The Abyss" in an abandoned nuclear power plant fuel pool/containment building.
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Here in California's thirsty farm belt, where pumpjacks nod amid neat rows of crops, it's a proposition that seems to make sense: using treated oil field wastewater to irrigate crops.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Indeed. This is the old mantra of folks: if you don't look for a problem, you won't see a problem/can't prove a problem exists.
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Atmospheric water generators—which take water vapor from the atmosphere and convert it to liquid water - could provide water for the world’s population.
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Staples Center and the L.A. Kings have joined with an El Segundo startup to sell a new techology that pulls water out of the air — water so pure that it freezes into high-quality ice. The technology also helps cut the arena's energy costs and makes hockey-watching a less chilling experience.
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Crystalline powder soaks up nearly 3 liters of water vapor per day
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What could possibly go wrong? Sand people?
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For more than a month, a rural part of Kentucky has been mostly without running water. When taps do work, residents worry the water is unsafe to drink.
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HANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Knee-high tufts of grass dot the streets of Hardwick, a rural neighborhood with a few dozen homes hemmed in by vineyards and walnut and almond orchards …
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Overdrafting of our aquifers went beyond anything that we can reasonably recover from for many in California's Central Valley this past few years.
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New tool hailed as a game changer for predicting floods, informing water-related decisions
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Record temperatures scorch countries from Morocco to Iraq, causing major disruptions.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is the real face and consequences of the world we are inheriting thanks to the forces who refuse to deal with this challenge as adults and responsible citizens of our planet.
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Parts of Beijing are sinking more than 4 inches per year because of over-exploitation of groundwater
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The story of one of the planet's great rivers.
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Whether she's driving a hybrid car, installing solar panels on her roof or tearing up her beloved front lawn and replacing it with mulch, Carrie Wassenaar said, she wants to do her part for the environment.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Clearly, we don't all need computer controlled flushing our our rain barrel systems, but the idea is a sound one for larger systems (think apartments, office buildings, etc.). Again, the cost will be huge for the early adopters but pave the way for more affordable systems in the future.
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Residents cut water use by 35 percent last month, surpassing the state mandate of a 32 percent reduction in Thousand Oaks.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Impressive!
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Walmart is the latest company under pressure to stop sourcing its bottled water from drought-stricken California. According to Via Acquisti & Sostenibilità not-for-profit
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