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Why Utah Is Bucking One of the West's Oldest Water Rules

Nina Elkadi

November 05, 2024 |

Civil Eats |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Utah

Utah is ditching the “use it or lose it” water rights doctrine to encourage farmers to conserve water amid severe water shortages. Instead, it’s encouraging farmers to use less water while allowing them to keep their rights to it. The government is awarding funding for efficiency upgrades and creating a system for farmess to lease out the saved water.

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A Colorado Groundwater Experiment Tackles Urgent Conservation Needs

Jennifer Oldham

November 04, 2024 |

Civil Eats |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Colorado

Farmers in arid, drought-prone regions are creating groundwater conservation easements with nonprofits to reduce their water use in a financially feasible way. For these agreements, farmers reduce the acres they grow crops on in perpetuity in exchange for payment and tax benefits.

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Migrating birds find refuge in pop-up habitats

Natalia Mesa

October 11, 2024 |

High Country News |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, California

A network of conservation organizations prompts the creation of tens of thousands of acres of “pop-up” wetland habitat for migrating birds each year with a program called BirdReturns. It pays rice farmers in California’s Central Valley to flood their fields earlier in the fall and keep them flooded longer in the spring so the birds have a place to rest and feed.

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London saw a surprising benefit to fining high-polluting cars: More active kids

Syris Valentine

September 17, 2024 |

Grist |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom, London

After a clean air zone was created in London, where vehicles have to pay a daily fee to enter unless they meet strict pollution standards, more young students in the area began walking and biking to school.

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El Paso solar cooperative helps homeowners save thousands on rooftop solar. It may be back next year.

Diego Mendoza-Moyers

August 25, 2024 |

El Paso Matters |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

Several nonprofits are running a solar cooperative in El Paso, Texas, that helps homeowners come together to buy and install solar panels in bulk, which makes them more affordable.

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A Community-Driven Organisation Is Helping To Re-Staff A Government Girls' School In Kano

Abdulaziz Bagwai

July 10, 2024 |

The Solutions Paper |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Tsakuwa, Kano

Using donations and contributions from the community, the organization Tsakuwa Mu Farka was able to hire 26 new staff for its local school of roughly 800 students, bringing the number of qualified teachers from eight to 34. Tsakuwa Mu Farka helped sponsor some of these teachers' training, which made candidates more interested in accepting positions there despite its limited funding resources.

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The High-Tech Tools That Can Bust Careless Oil and Gas Drillers

Jennifer Oldham

June 18, 2024 |

Sierra Club |

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Response Location: Iraq

To help reduce methane emissions, the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative invested in high-tech satellites that can detect equipment leaks that might otherwise be missed. The leaks identified and addressed thanks to the satellites accounted for the equivalent of one million tons of carbon dioxide.

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For child care workers, state aid for their own kids' care is 'life-changing'

Elaine S. Povich

June 17, 2024 |

Stateline |

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Response Location: United States, Smithfield, Rhode Island

To help address staffing shortages, states such as Rhode Island have launched pilot programs leveraging federal funding to subsidize child care costs for early childhood education workers. Child care centers say the programs have helped them attract and retain staff while making care more affordable for employees, but some states are struggling to make the funding permanent.

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This Birmingham group points children to careers in sports: 'Hope and purpose'

Alaina Bookman

June 08, 2024 |

AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

The ZeroZero Foundation works to support youth with an interest in sports through athletic training, summer programming, counseling, field trips, scholarship opportunities, and connections to internships and job opportunities in the sports industry. The organization currently serves more than 100 children in the Birmingham area.

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Using less of the Colorado River takes a willing farmer and $45 million in federal funds

Alex Hager Heather Sackett

May 30, 2024 |

KUNC |

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Response Location: United States

A federally-funded water conservation program, the System Conservation Pilot Program, is paying farmers in the Upper Colorado River Basin to not use the river’s water during the irrigation season. Leaving their fields dry for the program can earn them more money than they would get from growing crops.

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