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(author unknown), U.S. EPA Water News
(San Francisco, Calif. -- 02/06/2008) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today ordered a San Jose, Calif. scrap material company to immediately comply with the Clean Water Act at two of its facilities. The EPA inspected American Metal and Iron’s 11665 Berryessa Rd. facility on Oct...
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Feb 06, 2008
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(author unknown), U.S. EPA Water News
(Boston, Mass. – Feb. 6, 2008) - Fred’s Plumbing & Heating, Inc., a petroleum storage and distribution facility in Derby, Vt., will pay $21,250 in penalties and provide $14,000 for local oil spill equipment and response training following Clean Water Act Violations discovered by both the U.S...
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Feb 06, 2008
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(author unknown), Blue Gold, European Water Partnership Blog
Slovenia, Europe’s current presidency, has issued a statement backing the European Water Partnership’s efforts to create a European Water Stewardship Council and launch a water awareness program. The statement reads: The Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia welcomes the water stewardship and accompanying water awareness programme...
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Feb 06, 2008
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(author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk
Source: Reuters By Andrew Cawthorne NAIROBI, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Political manipulation rather than ethnic hatred is driving Kenya's post-election violence, says a leading author and scholar on the east ...
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Feb 06, 2008
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(author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk
Source: Reuters DUSHANBE, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Tajikistan, paralysed by the coldest winter in decades, asked for emergency international aid on Wednesday to help it survive an energy crisis which has left millions of ...
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Feb 06, 2008
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(author unknown), U.S. EPA Water News
For Immediate Release: February 5, 2008 Contact: Mary Simms, 415-947-4270, simms.mary@epa.gov U.S. EPA reaches milestone at one of the most contaminated sites in the nation, cleaning up more than 11 tons of toxins SAN FRANCISCO -- The U.S...
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Feb 05, 2008
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(author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk
Source: Reuters By Chris Buckley KAILI, China, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Trains and planes are starting to return to normal across China, but millions are likely to spend the biggest holiday of the year without power and ...
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Feb 05, 2008
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(author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk
Source: IRIN The reason why Zambia's urban poor have had to wade through ankle-deep water for weeks on end is as much down to human error as the torrential rain that has hammered the country: in a word, drainage....
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Feb 04, 2008
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(author unknown), U.S. EPA Water News
(Boston, Mass. – February 4, 2008) – Reducing climate impacts, saving money, and saving water – these are the goals of projects and programs being developed by EPA and state partners at the nexus between energy use and water use...
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Feb 04, 2008
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(author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk
Source: IRIN LifeStraw began when a young Danish graduate, whose family owned a small textile company, took a trip in the 1990s around Africa, where contaminated water claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year. Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen started to think how he could put the family company to good use...
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