Archive
Keyword - Water management
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Irrigation reform needed in Asia - Premium content
Farms must feed a growing population with a minimal impact on the environment.
17 August 2009
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Water: More crop per drop - Premium content
Farmers' yields in the developing world are often limited by unreliable rains. Improving their harvests will require plant breeders, agronomists and geneticists to pull together - but can these experts work out their differences? Emma Marris reports.
19 March 2008
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Korean waterway project gathers opposition - Premium content
Flood of complaints hits ambitious canal plan.
19 March 2008
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Enough water to go around? - Premium content
Nature checks out the state of usable water on our planet.
19 March 2008
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SPECIAL REPORT: Water: Purification with a pinch of salt - Premium content
Climate change, growing populations and political concerns are prompting governments and investors from California to China to take a fresh look at desalination. Quirin Schiermeier wades in.
19 March 2008
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Water under pressure - Premium content
19 March 2008
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Water: A long dry summer - Premium content
In parts of the world already facing unreliable food supplies, an uncertain climate adds to the future stress for soils, plants and people. Quirin Schiermeier reports on water strategies for a drier world.
19 March 2008
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Water: Muddy waters - Premium content
India's population is growing, and its water supplies are not keeping pace. Can an ambitious scheme to connect up the country's rivers slake the nation's deepening thirst? Daemon Fairless investigates.
19 March 2008
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Flooding the Grand Canyon - Premium content
Waters set to be unleashed to recreate spring floods.
5 March 2008
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Greenhouse effect has 'significantly dried' the western United States - Premium content
Stop development in southwestern states, say researchers.
31 January 2008
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Climate politics: Showdown in a sunburnt country - Premium content
Climate is shaping up as an issue in the 24 November Australian elections, as Stephen Pincock reports.
14 November 2007
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Northern Aral Sea recovering - Premium content
Kazakhstan plans second phase of project.
12 April 2007
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Climate change blamed for India's monsoon misery - Premium content
Erratic rains and water mismanagement cause death and destruction.
14 November 2006
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Water crisis happening now - Premium content
Severe water scarcity arrives decades earlier than predicted.
21 August 2006
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Sri Lanka's water still plagued by tsunami - Premium content
Wells flooded with salt and pollution, survey finds.
9 May 2006
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Something nasty in the water? - Premium content
Fluoride leaching from rocks is turning kids' teeth brown.
24 March 2006
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Dirty water plagues Chinese - Premium content
Government reveals that a third of rural residents suffer pollution.
4 January 2006
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Shocks may clean up aquifers - Premium content
Pressure waves might shift pollution in groundwater reservoirs.
7 October 2003
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Roman pipeline kept water flowing - Premium content
Ancient aqueduct at Aspendos was a hydraulic masterpiece.
8 April 2003
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Arsenic contamination of Bangladeshi paddy field soils: implications for rice contribution to arsenic consumption - Premium content
Food, as well as drinking water contaminated with poison
22 November 2002
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