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Project Provides Farmers With Clean Water By Treating Waste SaltsBoulder CO (SPX) Mar 24, 2010 Westlands Water District and Ag-Water New Sky (AGNS) have announced they will develop an integrated drainage water treatment facility in California's Central Valley. The project combines conventional desalination technology with award winning salt conversion technology developed by New Sky Energy of Boulder, Colorado. The project will design and build a demonstration water treatment facility that converts high salinity drainage water into fresh water for irrigation and financially valuable CO2 neg ... read more |
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West African farmers call for help as drought hits
Niamey (AFP) March 22, 2010West African farmers appealed Monday for help as drought and famine menaced people and livestock, with malnutrition already affecting nearly a third of the population. "Communities of farmers and pastoralists are already severely affected... with the acute malnutrition rate estimated at 29.9 percent, which is double the emergency level of 15 percent," warned Billital Maroobe, a coalition of ... more In rainy Gabon, some seek water 'like in the desert'
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 Brazilian Sugarcane To Power IZOD IndyCar Series In 2010
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 |
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CryoSat-2 Launch Date ConfirmedParis, France (ESA) Mar 22, 2010 The technical issue with the second stage of the Dnepr rocket that delayed the launch of ESA's Earth Explorer CryoSat-2 satellite in February has now been resolved - and the new launch date of 8 April has been set. The launch of CryoSat-2 was originally scheduled to take place from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 25 February, but had to be postponed owing to a problem with the fuel reserve in the launcher's second stage. The problem had surfaced a week before the scheduled launch da ... read more |
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