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Sea Level Rise Threatens Drinking Water of 15 Million Americans

Posted on Aug 09, 2010 by Susan Kraemer.

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Fresh water that now is flowing to the sea in the Delaware estuary is threatened by future sea-level rise resulting from rising temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions, a new study finds. As sea levels rise, salt water will move inland up the estuary. Drinking water for over 15 million people will be endangered.

The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary studied impacts on drinking water, tidal wetlands and shellfish like the local oysters and freshwater mussels in “Climate Change and the Delaware Estuary.” and how people can adapt to help protect the threatened resources.

Drinking water, tidal wetlands and shellfish are key resources for the estuary; and all three are vulnerable to effects of climate change, including warmer temperatures, higher sea levels and saltier water. Oysters alone brought about $19.2 million into the state in 2009.
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The Other Coastal Problem: Rising Seas

Posted on Jul 02, 2010 by Scott James.

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Rising sea levels will have an effect on coastal cities, and while the BP Gulf oil leak is getting the press these days, sea level rise from climate change will have an even more long-term and potentially dramatic effect. With the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicting a 7 – 23 inch rise by 2011 (with the possibility of 54 inch rise with accelerated Greenland and Arctic melting), communities on both the East and West coasts are taking measures now to prepare for what they know is coming, making incremental changes and learning from past disasters.
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Thames Gateway Water Treatment Works Desalinates Using Biofuels

Posted on Jun 09, 2010 by Jennifer Lance.

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Like every major city in the world, the population of London is growing straining the infrastructure in place to provide its residents with clean drinking water. Thus, the Thames Gateway Water Treatment opened this week to provide water during times of drought. This desalination plant runs off of biofuels and can quench the thirst of one million Londoners.

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Is Traditional Water Management the Future?

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Scott James.

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The world’s water situation is only going to get more challenging in the coming years. There will be more people a water supply that is increasingly polluted and often distributed with aging infrastructure. Clearly we will need to embrace new methods of water management- is it possible that those methods have been around for thousands of years? The International Traditional Knowledge Institute (ITKI), a new research group founded in Bagno a Ripoli, Italy, is teaching that traditional methods from the Sahara, Ethiopia and Babylon will work well with new technologies like solar power.
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Turkish Farmers Learn to Cut Water Use Up to 50%

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Zachary Shahan.

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About 72% of total water use in Turkey is for agriculture. This 72% is important when the country’s largest city, Istanbul, can be out of running water for days at a time in the summer.

“We have to change our perception of water and water use practices considerably,” WWF-Turkey CEO Dr. Filiz Demirayak told the World Water Forum in Istanbul in March.
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