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More deaths from unsafe water than from war: UNUnited Nations (AFP) March 22, 2010 More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday in a message to mark World Water Day. The United Nations children's agency UNICEF noted that more than 155 million people, or 39 percent of the population in West and Central Africa, do not have access to potable water, with only eight of 24 countries in the region on track to meet key poverty-reduction targets by 2015. "These deaths are an affront to our common humanity ... read more |
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Libreville (AFP) March 22, 2010Gabonese mother Jeannine Bibila is exasperated by constantly dry taps in a country that has tremendous potential for water supply. "Here, to have water, you need to search. It's like being in the desert." "In the desert, you don't find water easily. Sometimes, we go two weeks or even a month without water," explains Bibila, washing a huge pile of laundry at a public fountain in Kinguele, nor ... more  
Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Mar 23, 2010The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) has renewed its fuel supply agreement with the Indy Racing League for the 2010 IZOD IndyCar Series season, which opens on Sunday, March 14, with a race in Brazil's largest city, S�o Paulo. Under the new agreement, the IZOD IndyCar Series will continue to utilize sugarcane ethanol to fuel its race cars, including at its signature event, the Ind ... more 
Austin TX (SPX) Mar 23, 2010Dresser Wayne has announced the Ovation Eco Fuel model dispenser has been certified by the Underwriters Laboratory (UL) for use with ethanol blends up to E25. The new approval by UL comes as the market prepares for possible changes in U.S. federal energy policy that would shift the standard gasoline blend from the current E10 to higher levels of ethanol. The Dresser Wayne Ovation Eco Fuel ... more |
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The Last Hurrah For El Nino 2010Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 22, 2010 El Nino 2009-2010 just keeps hanging in there. Recent sea-level height data from the NASA/European Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 oceanography satellite show that a large-scale, sustained weakening of trade winds in the western and central equatorial Pacific during late-January through February has triggered yet another strong, eastward-moving wave of warm water, known as a Kelvin wave. Now in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, this warm wave appears as the large area of higher- ... read more |
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