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Klamath Water Woes: Drought Conditions Pit Farmers Against Fish Again
Posted on Mar 11, 2010 by Jennifer Lance.
The Klamath Basin and the water that flows out of it from Oregon to California have been a point of contention between environmentalists and farmers over the past century. Dam removal now seems imminent, yet the water woes have not ended for the region. Facing drought conditions, Klamath Lake is currently 12 inches below its lowest level recorded in 1992.
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A Future Business Created by Sea Level Rise
Posted on Mar 07, 2010 by Susan Kraemer.
Here’s a business concept poised for takeoff in centuries to come, with our rising sea levels. The floating island business. The Dutch (wouldn’t you know it!) company Dutch Docklands has come up with the concept of The Floating Beach®.
Now 22nd century tourists needn’t ever worry about their favorite island getaway being underwater. Floating beaches will always stay above sea level. Island nations, already too close to sea levels, that depend on tourism for income, are likely to be the first customers.
Indeed; the Maldives have just signed an agreement with the innovative company to develop several floating islands to replace the islands that are soon to be underwater.
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The First Nation to Run out of Water? Yemen
Posted on Mar 02, 2010 by Susan Kraemer.
War-torn Yemen is set to be the first country in the world to completely run out of water.
War and strife are caused by shortages, and Yemen has been no exception to that rule. As the nation has succumbed to desertification, war has followed. As the world warms, desertification (in some regions in parts of China, the Middle East, the USA and Australia) will all increasingly create water shortages which by 2050 will affect billions.
For all these regions; that’s in the future. In Yemen, that future is right now.
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Pacific Coast Collective Creates Ocean Conservation and Coastal Climate Change Action Plan
Posted on Feb 22, 2010 by Scott James.
The Pacific coast is a region of amazing beauty and resources with a unique set of concerns. In 2008, Alaska, British Columbia, California, Oregon, and Washington created the Pacific Coast Collaborative with a vision to “create a formal basis for cooperative action, a forum for leadership and information sharing, and a common voice on issues facing Pacific North America.” This week at the inaugural PCC Leaders’ Forum the Pacific Coast Collaborative states ratified two action plans: 1) Innovation, the Environment and the Economy and 2) Ocean Conservation and Coastal Climate Change Adaptation. The Ocean and Coastal action plan is a powerful, unified statement about how the West Coast will adapt to and move forward in response to climate change issues. With 52 million people living in the 5 states and $2.5 trillion GDP, the PCC views itself as a “mega-region” that would rank as the world’s 7th largest economy and has geographically unique coastal concerns.
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California Water: Mavericks, Sacramento and Diane Feinstein
Posted on Feb 18, 2010 by Scott James.
My housemates left before dawn on Saturday morning for the Mavericks Surf Contest, an annual big-wave surfing competition of the coast of Half Moon Bay, California. The waves can reach 50 feet, and because of the variability of weather and water, contest organizers and surfers alike must wait for the perfect storm to appear on the horizon, sometime between November and March, when they will all have less than 24 hours to rush to Half Moon Bay from around the world and catch the biggest waves of the year. It reminded me of the sentiment expressed in Blue Gold that in truth, we don’t manage water, water manages us- and just how little regard California as a state pays to that sentiment.
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