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water in the West

Posted in sustainability, water on March 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Warming affects trees, streams in West from AP:
The Rocky Mountain snowpacks that melt earlier in spring leave less water for summer irrigation and heat up trout streams. Glaciers, which provide consistent stream flows during summer, are melting. The glaciers at Montana’s Glacier National Park could melt entirely by 2022…. Montana, Idaho and Wyoming had [...]

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water footprint

Posted in population pressure, sustainability, water on March 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »

By Arthur Max, Associated Press Writer:
The threat of climate change has drawn attention to carbon footprints…. Now scientists have begun calculating a water footprint, the amount of water needed to produce goods or services.
“What we are doing now can’t keep up with the issues we already have,” says Carol A. Howe, an expert working [...]

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