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Nestlé Keeps Bottling California’s Water Despite Drought

Mila Luleva — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 04:18:21 +0000

The drought in California has gradually become worse over the past few years, yet companies bottling drinking water continue to unprecedently pump out and make money out of the precious limited resource. For quite some time now, the first thing that comes to people’s minds when they hear the word “California” is “drought“. The condition in […]

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How to Save Water Without Changing Our Daily Routines

Mila Luleva — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:49:40 +0000

Climate change is happening, and the best indicator for this is the continuous drought that many American states are fighting with for quite some time now. The efforts of governmental officials, regardless of how big or small, alone are clearly not enough, meaning that we should all join forces and save as much water as possible. […]

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California Drought is Bad News for Crops

Leigh Hutchens — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 21:19:03 +0000

Do you realize that 80% of the water used in California is by farms? For decades, when the state actually got a good amount of rainfall annually, this wasn’t a big deal. However, now we are in the driest 30-month stretch in California’s recorded history, and that means big problems for the price of your […]

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Are Your Allergies Worse? Blame Global Warming

Leigh Hutchens — Fri, 09 May 2014 06:11:02 +0000

“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” ~ Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1746 When most people think of Cupertino, California, they think of Apple. Few people know, however, that Cupertino is suffering terribly as the result of global warming. A full scale drought is happening in California, affecting farmers, merchants, and […]

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Ridiculous – Guy Pees in Reservoir, Portland Drains 38 Million Gallons of Potable Water

Benji Jerew — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:18:00 +0000

Open-air reservoirs are slowly becoming a thing of the past, judging from what Portland did to its thirty-eight million gallon reservoir of potable water after someone urinated in it. The last time this happened, Portland’s reservoir of potable water only lost eight million gallons, at a cost of more than $30,000 to the city, all […]

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Climate Changes California – Worst Drought in Over a Century

Benji Jerew — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:24:39 +0000

Climate change seems to generate a lot of superlatives, such as the continuing drought in California. Taking a look at aerial photos of Folsom Lake, a reservoir outside of Sacramento, California, almost makes one wonder if someone left the tap open when they ran off to the store. Oops! Well, not really, since Folsom Lake’s […]

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Global Drought Predictions Overestimated and Uncertain, Study Says

Mila Luleva — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:23:31 +0000

The journal Nature published a study, which strongly criticizes the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), used as the basis by IPCC in their 4th Assessment Report. In this document it was stated that more intense and longer lasting droughts have been observed since the 1970s. Scientists from Princeton University, led by Justin Sheffield, suggest that […]

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