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Published:2/28/2008
Submitted by:Frank K 125 days ago
Categories: Water Resources & Fresh Water Sources
Article Details:   A water crisis is impending. In a new book, Jeffrey Sachs outlines easy, low-cost technical and economic strategies to avoid disaster. But implementing any of these takes planning, organization and leadership. "Politicians don't want to bear the costs of adjustment," Sachs says. "So they ignore the problem and continue the same unsustainable practices."
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Article:
Published:2/21/2008
Submitted by:Frank K 184 days ago
Categories: Water Resources & Fresh Water Sources
Article Details:   The green-fuel boom touted as a clean, eco-friendly alternative to gasoline is proving to have its own dirty costs. Growing corn demands lots of water, and, in eastern Colorado, this means intensive irrigation from an already stressed water table, the great Ogallala Aquifer. The ethanol boom will only hasten the drop further. The region's water shortage has pitted water-hungry farmers against one another.