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How We Can Grow Community Food Solutions 3 Sep 2010, 10:00 pm

Food systems can be a very powerful tool for resilience.

Source: AlterNet.org: Water | Erika Allen, Post Carbon Institute

Fertilizer Runoff Is Killing Our Waterways 3 Sep 2010, 6:00 pm

To keep your lawn looking as deeply green as your neighbor’s, you ladle on the nitrogen fertilizer and keep the grass watered. And that’s causing big problems in some areas.

Source: AlterNet.org: Water | Michael Brune, AlterNet

Five Ways You Can Help Pakistan (and the Rest of Us) 3 Sep 2010, 6:00 pm

The Pakistani people need our help. Here’s what we can do today, and how to reduce the number of future disasters.

Source: AlterNet.org: Water | Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine

Our Water Crisis Will Be More Challenging Than Our Energy Crisis: How Do We Adapt? 3 Sep 2010, 5:00 pm

Challenges posed by water in the coming decades will rival those posed by declining oil supplies.

Source: AlterNet.org: Water | Sandra Postel, Post Carbon Institute

Can China Save the Beleaguered Yangtze River? 3 Sep 2010, 4:00 pm

The Yangtze has been carved up by dams, used as an open sewer and subjected to decades of overfishing.

Source: AlterNet.org: Water | Richard Stone, Yale Environment 360

Feds Warn Residents Near Wyoming Gas Drilling Sites Not to Drink Their Water 3 Sep 2010, 3:00 pm

Researchers found benzene, metals, naphthalene, phenols and methane in wells and in groundwater.

Source: AlterNet.org: Water | Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica

Dolphin Slaughter Resumes in Japan 3 Sep 2010, 12:00 am

Activist Ric O’Barry delivered a petition to the US Embassy in Tokyo signed by 1.7 million people from 155 countries demanding an end to the hunt.

Source: AlterNet.org: Water | Jaymi Heimbuch, TreeHugger

How Much Water Do You Use at Home? Here’s a New Tool for Figuring Out Your Home Water and Energy Footprint 2 Sep 2010, 10:00 pm

How many of us really have a sense of what our water use is, or the energy and greenhouse gases embedded in that use?

Source: AlterNet.org: Water | Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute

Why Israel, Palestine and Jordan Are Rallying Around a Single Cause 27 Aug 2010, 2:00 pm

Unfortunately their extraordinary plan to revive the Dead Sea could ease tensions or it could create an environmental disaster.

Source: AlterNet.org: Water | Vince Beiser, Miller-McCune Magazine

U.S. Wants China And India To Replace Coal With Environmentally Devastating Drilling 27 Aug 2010, 10:00 am

"It makes more sense to invest in truly clean renewable energies such as wind and solar."

Source: AlterNet.org: Water | Shaun Tandon, AFP