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- Metropolis strives to meet its thirst
  Posted by aknight from BBC News
  Water ghost towns?
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- EnviroHealth: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water
  Posted by Jeff from Alternet
  All across the United States, municipal water systems are being bought up by multinational corporations, turning one of our last remaining public commons and our most vital resource into a commodity.
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- 'Water police' crack down in an ever-drier Australia
  Posted by Jeff from Christian Science Monitor
  The water crisis is no longer about desperate farmers in the Outback watching their sheep and cattle perish. Over the past six years, it has extended its grip to the cities and is changing the way Australians regard a resource they once took for granted. Overpopulation and global warming are teaming up to tap the water supply.
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- Vast stores of water ice on Mars - Space.com
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  With a radar technique, astronomers have penetrated for the first time about 2.5 miles (nearly four kilometers) beneath the south pole’s frozen surface. The data showed that nearly pure water ice lies beneath.
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- Tofino water shortage brings hotel closure order in Canadian resort town
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Hotels, resorts and other businesses in this burgeoning rainforest tourist mecca on Vancouver Island have been told to shut down because of a water shortage. Because of high demand and very little rain since July, the town's main reservoir is so depleted that there might not be enough water to fight a fire, Mayor John Fraser said Tuesday.
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- 50% of nations communities switching to new water disinfectant
  Posted by Billbar from Rawstory
  When plumbing manufactures use pipes containing lead alloys, which are cheaper than most other alloys, the pipes can corrode and react with a new water disinfectant, chloramine. Chloramine reacts with the pipes and lead leaches into household water. "It's of quite a significant concern," Marc Edwards, the Charles Lunsford Professor of Civil Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, said of communities switching to chloramine. "The train is already going down the tracks. It's not even possible to have a discussion at this point. There is no slowing the train down."
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- Bottled Water Sales Soar as Tap Water Safety Questioned
  Posted by Billbar from Live Science
  Americans are drinking more bottled water than milk, coffee or beer nowadays and the U.S. bottled water industry takes in revenue of $10 billion annually.
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RussWellen comments on:
Would you like some sparkling clear sewer water with your meal?

Ick is right.

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10:00 am 3/04/08
Damianmann comments on:
Imagine Atlanta Without Fresh Water: Georgia Lake Dries Up

pretty scary

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1:19 pm 11/18/07
Mikep2 comments on:
The Future Is Drying Up

And to be in line with the previous two posts…it’s been around 70 for the past two days here in Seattle

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4:46 pm 10/23/07
Mikep2 comments on:
The Future Is Drying Up

If there is farming in southwest Utah (WHICH IS A DESERT) then I am sure there are other equally arid places being farmed. And thus, using all that water to grow stuff in a desert. Sorry to say that we just might have to make some tough choices, eh?

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4:45 pm 10/23/07
Sarahfelicity comments on:
The Future Is Drying Up

Heading up to 79 here today… October 22…

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7:49 am 10/22/07
Jeff comments on:
The Future Is Drying Up

And it was 70 and sunny in Toronto today… 90 in Chicago two weeks ago. It’s mid October…btw…

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4:10 pm 10/21/07

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