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[European Water News, the Europe-wide information platform on water-issues] Water is often taken from ecologically vulnerable areas. This movie is proposing an initiative to create a network of ecologically sensitive and aestetically compelling water reclamation centres, so the waterworks infrastructure gets a public dimension as they are integrated in the local community and serve more than one purpose.

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[UK Without Incineration Network] Jersey sends out SOS · UK Without Incineration Network: Babtie Fichtner commissioned Ambios Environmental Consultants to carry out a baseline ecological assessment of land at the La Collette reclamation site. The report does not include any survey or scientific data on the Ramsar site and did not assess any potential risk to the Ramsar Site.

[IISD Linkages] East Asian Seas Congress 2009 - Highlights for Wednesday, 25 ...: Gil Adora, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Philippines, discussed the role of mariculture park projects in ensuring food security in Eastern Visaya, and in Panabo City through increased fisheries productivity, income generation and poverty alleviation. Renato Agbayani, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Centre, explained the importance of incorporating ICZM practices in aquaculture to ensure sustainability, environmental protection and social equity.

[Syria Comment] Syria Comment » Archives » Turkey Changes Heart, Says It Will ...: Turkey seems to follow th model of India (it originates on my land, it is my water) at least in terms of principle, but the difference is in the fact that Turkey is conciensioualy trying to play a major regional leadership role by projecting true smart power and improving not only its relationship with its neighbor but in genuinely being a considerate neighbor and partner. I do not foresee Turkey committing itself to a set amount other than the minimum requirements, which will off course be subject to negotiations as is now the case due to the major drought.

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[PRAGOTI] Notification of Coastal Management Zone by Government of India ...: (a) “Coastal Zone” means the area from the territorial waters limit (12 nautical miles measured from the appropriate baseline) including its sea bed, the adjacent land area along the coast, and inland water bodies influenced by tidal action including its bed, upto the landward boundary of the local self government or local authority abutting the sea coast, provided that in case of ecologically and culturally sensitive areas, the entire biological or physical boundary of the area may be included, as specified under the provisions of Environment Protection Act, 1986;

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[Pambazuka News :Features] Pambazuka News : Issue 407: In a sector supported by lax tax collection by the country’s government and whose only concern is for profit, companies such as Barrick Gold Corporation have much to answer for in the face of widespread environmental degradation, the displacement and forcible removal of local people, and criminalisation of local mining activities. Drawing on the information collected within damning reports such as A Golden Opportunity?, Rubara documents the extent to which mining companies operate with impunity in Tanzania, an impunity giving rise to sustained abuse of local people’s rights and wholesale stealing of national resources.

[REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio] Human and Animal Waste to Save the World: The Ultimate ...: In Canada, too, several cities and towns in Western Canada, including Calgary, Alberta, and Kelowna and Vernon in B.C., acting on their own, have undertaken creative sewage recyling. Calgary, in particular, can take pride in its recycling of about 355,000 cubic metres of sewage daily, returning purified water to the Bow River and fertilizer to farms within a 60km radius of the city.

[Matthew Yglesias] Matthew Yglesias » Federal Land: As head of the U.S. Geological Survey, he mapped and identified the scarce water resources of the West, and had great influence on policy, leading to intensive Federal land management, and the Bureau of Reclamation. His Despite the flaws of this system, it still appears to be the only sensible way to manage much of the Western lands.

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[Reason Magazine - Topics > Regulation] Open ANWR Already! - Reason Magazine: Most decisions to explore andexploit possible reserves off our coasts and in U.S. waters willcertainly be based off of this price. So anyone stating thatgasoline prices will EVER be reduced by any additional drillinghere is utterly full of CRAP!

[ScienceBlogs Select] The Tilo Reber Thread : Deltoid: But the hockey stick has become the symbolic totem for the septical mob, who think that if they bring down this edifice then nobody will trust all of the other longstanding evidence strongly suggesting a human fingerprint is all over the current warming episode. The creationists have been doing the same thing for years - chip, chip, chip away at certain areas of evolutionary theory, ignoring the vast amounts of other data in support of it, and when they find a few flaws to claim that evolutionary theory itself as a whole is discredited.

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