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Water Resources Articles  | | 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 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. | |
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|  | | Article Details: I’d put water up there with global warming at top of the agenda. Many climate scientists think that our big problems with global warming will come less from the warming itself, and more from the big changes in hydrology that it causes – droughts and floods, dried out soils and ecosystems, empty rivers, and maybe the worst, the sheer unpredictability of where and when we will have water. | |
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