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  • Climate Change, the Rio Grande and Border Water

    Naveena Sadasivam Zoë Schlanger Daniel Wolfe

    August 16, 2018 |

    Texas Observer |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

    The Rio Grande River, which provides water to 6 million people and irrigates 2 million acres of farmland, is one of many transnational sources of water imperiled by climate change. Indeed, many states and countries that share water are drawn into conflict over dwindling resources. One relationship between officials in Mexico and the U.S. offers some hope that (with the right coaching) countries can cooperate, even in the face of greater political problems.

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  • Can the Great Lakes continue to fend off an increasingly thirsty world?

    Ron Seely

    August 16, 2018 |

    Ensia |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Muskegon, Michigan

    The Great Lakes contain 84 percent of the surface freshwater in North America—a staggering 21 percent of the surface freshwater worldwide. To manage the resource sustainably, all eight lake-bordering states, Congress, and Canadian provinces created the Great Lakes Compact in 2008, which has regulated and curbed water use. An evaluation of the agreement ten years later shows promising yet mixed results. And critically, it asks whether strong policies can withstand a future of growing water scarcity.

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  • The clock is ticking on dealing with western Kansas' drying Ogallala Aquifer

    Karen Dillon

    August 10, 2018 |

    The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Topeka, Kansas

    Western Kansas' finite Ogallala aquifer is the bedrock of an agricultural region that accounts for 10 percent of Kansas' economy. But thanks to decades of over-drafting for irrigation, the aquifer is on track to run dry in the not-so-distant future. Now some are calling for regional conservation, and some smaller programs have shown promise; however, the challenges of scalability and political wrangling remain vast.

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  • See Florida's New Underwater Sculpture Park, Which Is Delighting Scuba Divers and Oysters Alike

    Sarah Cascone

    July 11, 2018 |

    Artnet |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Florida

    In support of artistic creation, marine life, and tourism an underwater sculpture park has opened in Florida. The sculptures have been placed underwater in the Gulf of Mexico in the hopes of creating an artificial reef environment for study.

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  • A chemical breakthrough could eat the plastic pollution crisis

    Bonnie Christian

    July 01, 2018 |

    Wired |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, East Menlo Park, California

    When plastics are recycled with remnants of food or grease on them, they are discarded due to market regulations, thus adding to the world's trash problem. One researcher has found a solution to account for these: a bacteria that liquefies the contaminated materials.

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  • Electric Rain

    Amina Nazarli

    June 16, 2018 |

    AzerNews |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Azerbaijan, Baku

    Turning rainwater into electric power may sound farfetched, but it has become a reality thanks to 15-year-old Reyhan Jamalova in Azerbaijan. Appropriately dubbed Rainergy, this new source of renewable energy has the potential to bring power to underprivileged communities as well as be marketed internationally.

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  • A Brazilian unimpressed by 'ecological toilets' invents an alternative to flushing

    Gabriel Alves

    June 14, 2018 |

    Haaretz |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Brazil

    Flushing a toilet is not only wasteful in terms of water usage, but it is also costly. "Few people know how many liters of water are used, or how much they pay for each liter of water used at home," explains Ezequiel Vedana, the inventor of Piipee - a devise that eliminates the need to flush altogether and has been called a global climate innovation. In fact, when one business tested this devise that emits a deodorizing and decolorizing solution, they saw their water bill cut in half within four months.

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  • Adaptation to Global Water Shortages

    Raisa Scriabine

    May 16, 2018 |

    KCET-TV |

    Video |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Morocco, Id Soussane

    Two very different part of the world – California’s Central Valley and Western Morocco – are learning to adapt to water shortages. In the Central Valley, finding and treating water in a notoriously drought-ridden state has been challenging, but a series of connected water districts experimenting with processes like reverse osmosis has showed promise. Halfway across the world, they’ve been using fog collection as a non-traditional method of capturing water so that the rural villages in Morocco can have access to water after decades of water shortages.

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  • A revolution in hydropower makes waves in rural Colorado

    Carl Segerstrom

    May 11, 2018 |

    High Country News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Montrose, Colorado

    Thanks in part to the advancement of technology and federal reforms that now streamline a previously lengthy process, rural Colorado is proving to be a prime candidate for small hydropower projects.

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  • How Oman's Rocks Could Help Save the Planet

    Henry Fountain

    April 26, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Oman, Imbra

    Are rocks the answer to decreasing the scale of carbon dioxide production across the world? These scientists think so - or at least that these rocks have the potential to play a part in this mission. Carbon mineralization, a process unique to peridotite rocks found primarily in Oman but also in California, Papua New Guinea, Albania and a few other locations, could help combat climate change if the acceleration and scaling processes can be determined.

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