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Prairie Dogs at Risk: Tell the EPA to Do its Job!
----- Original Message ----- From: Defenders of Wildlife To: bellringer@fourwinds10.com Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:00 AM Subject: Prairie Dogs at Risk: Tell the EPA to Do its Job! A huge thanks to the more than 43,000 concerned citizens who took action to stop the EPA from approving Kaput-D to kill prairie dogs! Now we need your help to get the agency to reverse its deadly decision to approve Rozol to kill prairie dogs in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming. Like Kaput-D, Rozol causes prairie dogs to slowly bleed to death and sets off a chain reaction of secondary poisoning that can kill imperiled animals that are tied to prairie dogs on the food chain -- including black-footed ferrets, swift foxes, eagles and ferruginous hawks. Help protect prairie dogs and other imperiled animals. Take action now to tell the EPA to reverse its deadly decision before the deadline on Friday.. » read more
Report: Palestinians Denied Water
Oct. 27, 2009 Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says. In a report, the human rights group says Israeli water restrictions discriminate against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. It says that in Gaza, Israel's blockade has pushed the already ailing water and sewage system to "crisis point". Israel says the report is flawed and the Palestinians get more water than was agreed under the 1990s peace deal.. » read more
Water Wars: Corruption! Collusion! Scandal!
Oct. 7, 2009 The world is immersed in a dark bureaucratic nightmare, while lulled by the dream of a green sustainable future. This can be best illustrated by the Hegelian Dialectic, when simplified, is described as Problem > Reaction > Solution, wherein a Problem is created with an ulterior motive, a Reaction is provoked as a result of the Problem, and a predetermined Solution is then implemented. In the case of the California drought, the federal government created the Problem by cutting off water to farmlands, which has led to water shortages, dying farms and rampant unemployment. Now that a crisis has been established, people are beginning the Reaction phase, and looking for the Solution.. » read more
AP IMPACT: School Drining Water Contains Toxins
Sept. 25, 2009 Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins. An Associated Press investigation found that contaminants have surfaced at public and private schools in all 50 states — in small towns and inner cities alike. But the problem has gone largely unmonitored by the federal government, even as the number of water safety violations has multiplied. "It's an outrage," said Marc Edwards, an engineer at Virginia Tech who has been honored for his work on water quality.. » read more
8 Dead in Georgia Floods; More Missing
Roads closed, more rain, flooding expected related: Deadly Southern Floods Not Letting Up Yet Roller Coasters Swallowed Up by Flood – video Photo: John Barry carried his dog, Ruby, to drier ground in Chattanooga, Tenn. Forecasters issued flood alerts across the Southeast; as much as 20 inches of rain fell on the Atlanta area. (Angela Lewis/ Chattanooga Times Free Press) September 22, 2009 By Mike Morris, Megan Matteucci and Katie Leslie The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eight people, including a toddler, were killed after heavy rains flooded many parts of metro Atlanta and north Georgia. Rescuers found a victim Tuesday morning in Chattooga County, the seventh storm fatality in Georgia. It has not been confirmed, however, that the body found Tuesday is one of two missing teenage boys who attempted to rescue a trapped motorist and were swept away.. » read more
UN: Gaza Water Supply Could Collapse in Wake of Israel War
Sept. 14, 2009 The Gaza Strip's underground water supply is in danger of collapse due to overuse and contamination, exacerbated by Israel's offensive there in December, the United Nations said Monday. A report released at the Nairobi headquarters of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) warned that it could take centuries for damage to Gaza's aquifer to be reversed unless action was taken now. "Many of the impacts of the recent hostilities have exacerbated environmental degradation that has been years in the making," UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner said. Alternative water sources need to be found in order to rest the aquifer, which provides drinking water for Gaza's 1.. » read more
A Dried Up India and an Agriculture Crisis
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Mexico Water Shortage Becomes Crisis Amid Drought (with video)
Sept. 7, 2009 Crops are wilting in the countryside, and the capital's water shortage has turned dire as Mexico grapples with its worst drought in more than half a century. Reporting from Mexico City - In the parched Mexican countryside, the corn is wilting, the wheat stunted. And here in this vast and thirsty capital, officials are rationing water and threatening worse cuts as Mexico endures one of the driest spells in more than half a century. A months-long drought has affected broad swaths of the country, from the U.. » read more
Audio slideshow: Kenya's drought
Sept. 1, 2009 Land that was once pasture is turning to desert, tens of thousands of animals have died, and the UN has warned that nearly four million people need help. Reporter Mike Thomson has visited the area around Garissa in northeastern Kenya, to meet the animal herders trying to survive the country's worst drought for a decade. VIEW AUDIO SLIDE SHOW http://news.bbc.. » read more
Water Shortage Threatens Two Million People in Southern Iraq
Wednesday 26 August 2009 Electricity supply to Nasiriyah has dropped by 50 percent because of falling levels of Euphrates river. Nasiriyah, Iraq - A water shortage described as the most critical since the earliest days of Iraq's civilisation is threatening to leave up to 2 million people in the south of the country without electricity and almost as many without drinking water. An Iraqi women observes her severely dry swath of land south of Baghdad. (Photo: AP) An already meagre supply of electricity to Iraq's fourth-largest city of Nasiriyah has fallen by 50% during the last three weeks because of the rapidly falling levels of the Euphrates river, which has only two of four power-generating turbines left working. If, as predicted, the river falls by a further 20cm during the next fortnight, engineers say the remaining two turbines will also close down, forcing a total blackout in the city.. » read more
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