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There are numerous federal water conservation requirements. Thankfully, the Environmental Protection Agency has created a Water Conservation Strategy to meet the various requirements set by the government. The Water Conservation Strategy is implemented agency-wide and identifies the most appropriate efforts and best management practices. Furthermore,...
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What would you do if you had to shower knowing the water might not work any minute now? In America today, it is fortunate that water is super convenient for us to obtain compared to other third-world countries. Most people in America take running water...
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Can you imagine living in a world where the most abundant and needed resource water was not available to you? This is the reality many people around the world are facing right now. Globalization has brought people of different cultures together and developed a new...
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Water, the seemingly simple resource made up of oxygen and hydrogen is becoming more complicated and the years pass. This life-sustaining substance isn’t inherently that complex but is becoming a new hot commodity. Water is facing an economic upraise as our world’s freshwater supply depletes...
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In California today, drought levels are at the highest they have ever been. On Tuesday, May 4, 2015 Governor Jerry Brown imposed the first mandatory urban water conservation rules in state history. These new rules will start June 1 and will remain until February. The...
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According to the United Nations about the Water of life research in 2013, “more than one billion people are lack of using and drinking clean water on the earth.” Currently, the shortage of water is a serious problem. Many areas around the world are lack...
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The relationships among the factors, i.e., lineament, slope, groundwater depth, rainfall/runoff, urban storm water logging, land use/land cover, soil texture and drainage density, were weighted according to their response for groundwater occurrence. High to low weight showed larger to smaller impact on groundwater potential respectively....
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“There is not enough sufficient water to irrigate all the land which could be irrigated”. These are the words from John Wesley Powell when he argued that civilization would difficult to cultivate in the West due to the lack of water in the area. However,...
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For primitive beings like us, life seems to have one single purpose — gaining time. It is going through time that also seems to be the only real purpose of each of the cells in our bodies. To achieve that, the mass of the cells...