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The New York Times & Log In: May 8, 6:41am 1 review environment, water, oil, energy, gasoline
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/business/08oil.html?hp; Some of the nation's largest oil companies have agreed to pay about $423 million in cash to settle a lawsuit brought by more than a hundred public water providers, claiming water contamination from a popular gasoline additive. The terms of the settlement were submitted for approval in the federal court for the Southern District of New York. Under the terms of the deal, the companies also agreed to pay 70 percent of the future cleanup costs over the next 30 years. The defendants that agreed to the settlement include BP, Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Marathon Oil, Valero Energy, Citgo and Sunoco. Six other companies named in the lawsuit, including Exxon Mobil, did not agree to the deal, said Scott Summy, a lawyer at Baron & Budd and a counsel for the plaintiffs. In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs, which include 153 public water systems in New York, California and 15 other states, claimed that the additive, a chemical called methyl tertiary butyl ether, or M.T.B.E., was a defective product that led to widespread contamination of groundwater. The suit contended that the chemical was used by oil companies, even though they knew of the environmental and health risks that it posed.

Gothamist: Water Wars Between NYC and Pennsylvania: Apr 20, 8:38am 1 review environment, water, new-york-city, rivers, flooding
http://gothamist.com/2008/04/19/water_wars_betw.php; NYC has agreed to lower the water levels in some of its reservoirs that supply the city with its drinking water. The move came after pressure from Ed Rendell, the Gov. of Pennsylvania, who argued for reduced reservoir capacity to spare citizens of his state from the regular spring flooding along the Delaware River that results from New York keeping its reservoirs filled to the brim. When spring storms exceed the already-full reservoirs' ability to retain water, the Delaware River floods and Pennsylvanians suffer.

Worlds mountains will not remain water towers forever - Feature : Nature Environ…: Apr 15, 11:04am 1 review environment, water
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/198870,worlds-mountains-will-not-rema...; Vienna - The world's population and agriculture hotspots are particularly sensitive to changes in the capacity of mountains to store water, geological scientists say. Both naturally occurring and man-made climate factors are affecting the capability of the world's mountain ranges to serve as sources for freshwater for adjacent lowlands. According to a recent study, about 7 per cent of the world's mountains are essential for providing downstream supply, said Daniel Viviroli of the University of Berne. This number is likely to increase, as 37 per cent provide an important supply that will grow more important in years to come. The dryer the lowland climate gets, the more important the mountains become, Vivrioli said. "If we want to know about the consequences for arid and semiarid areas, we need to be aware of the runoffs," he said, speaking on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna. Precipitation runoff from the world's mountain ranges are the main contributor to freshwater resources in the surrounding lowlands and are essential for agriculture or drinking water. "Pressure on resources will increase in the subtropics, arid and semiarid regions," he said. Current research on climate change predicts that "wet places will get wetter and dry places will get dryer," climatologist Philip Mote from the University of Washington said.

21st-Century Plumbing For a Leaky Old Aqueduct - New York Times: Apr 15, 6:43am 1 review environment, water
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E3D71739F931A25750C0A9649C...; All along the East Coast, drought has shriveled streams as never before. But tucked in the woods 70 miles north of New York City, a deep pool of clear water spills into a sparkling brook that runs downhill to the Hudson River. No matter how dry the weather, gauges measure a flow of four million to six million gallons a day. No one is thrilled, however. The sinkhole and half a dozen other springs and wet spots nearby are fed by leaks 600 feet underground in one of the most important water tunnels in the world, the 85-mile Delaware Aqueduct. This 57-year-old tunnel carries, on average, half of New York City's daily supply of a billion-plus gallons of water from reservoirs along the Delaware River where it rises in the Catskill Mountains. It also supplies this town and many others along its route to the city. At certain times of the year, the tunnel carries 90 percent of the water for the nine million people served by the sprawling 19-reservoir water system, which has long been considered an engineering marvel of the industrial era. When the tunnel is at full capacity, about 36 million gallons a day escape through uncharted breaks in the concrete and steel lining, engineers for the city say. That might not seem much in a billion-gallon-a-day system, but the leak equals the total daily water usage of Rochester.

Water: A Billion Gallons A Month Down the Drain : TreeHugger: Apr 15, 6:41am 1 review environment, water, waste, green
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/a-billion-gallons-a-month-wasted.php; Delivering safe, healthy water has been one of the main functions of government for as long as there have been governments, building aqueducts in Roman times and more recently across the Harlem River. Water is also political, as we have seen from Atlanta to Wisconsin this year. But that hasn't stopped our current governments from letting the infrastructure fall to ruin. Two hours north of New York City, there is a lovely stream and marsh where people come to drink the cool, fresh water; in fact is is a leak of 36 million gallons a day from the Delaware Aqueduct, a billion gallons a month. (nor is this news, Andy Revkin wrote about it in 2002)

Town Considers Forcing 100-Gallon-Per-Person Water Limit - Orlando News Story -…: Apr 9, 5:14am 1 review environment, water
http://www.local6.com/news/15811993/detail.html; From the page: "OAKLAND, Fla. -- A small town in Central Florida is considering forcing a 100-gallon-per-person daily limit on water for its residents. Some residents in Oakland, which is located south of Apopka, are outraged over the proposed limit on water and said the rapid growth in the area must stop until there is no longer a shortage. "I don't understand why they are allowing them to still build if the water supply is not there," Oakland resident "Susan" said. "And, why should we be cut?" "What bothers me is when I get my bill and it is $50 or $100 and then they say, you can't use this much water," Angela Cardon said. "

GEs New Water Heater Could Kill 30 Coal Plants | EcoGeek: Apr 3, 5:36am 3 reviews environment, water, global-warming, climate-change, water-heating
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1502/; Y'know what's dumb...until today, Energy Star didn't regulate water heaters at all. They're the most energy-hungry single appliance int he home, and are responsible for about 17% of residential energy use. But because of a lack of consensus on how they should be regulated, and resistance from industry, their efficiency went completely unregulated. Well, that all changed today. Along with the announcement that the new standards will save Americans hundreds of billions of dollars per year, comes two new water heaters from GE that will, of course, meet the new standards. The first is available now. It's a tankless heater that provides hot water only when you need it. The result is an unlimited supply of hot water, and about 25% less energy use per gallon of hot water produced. The second is even more exciting, though, unfortunately, it won't be available until 2009. GE is calling it a "hybrid electric" water heater, I suppose hoping to capitalize on the excitement surrounding hybrid electric vehicles. But it is a kind of hybrid. The water heater first uses a heat pump to bring the water up to the temperature of the ambient air. Then the electric water heater takes over, bringing the water up to 140 degrees F.

How the World Wastes $100 Billion Per Year | EcoGeek: Apr 3, 5:32am 3 reviews environment, water, bottled-water
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1501/; Bottled water is either the largest hoax every pulled off on mankind, or a marvelous example of exactly how lazy we, as a species, really are. The world spends $100 billion on bottled water every year. Strangely enough, this water does not get to the millions of sick and dying people who do not have access to clean drinking water. To bring potable water to the entire world would cost around $30 billion...less than half of the amount that people who have access to clean drinking water spend on bottles of the stuff every year. I am honestly very angry about this, and I haven't even gotten into the environmental problems. In fact, I'm not going to...I'm just going to leave it there... and have this be my monthly rant at EcoGeek.

Marc Gunther & Starbucks: Monetizing Nature: Mar 20, 6:22am 2 reviews business, environment, nature, water, money
http://www.marcgunther.com/?p=344; One of the most exciting concepts kicking around the corporate-environmental world these days is ecosystem services. The idea is that nature produces valuable products and services that we often take for granted, such as clean water, timber, medicines from plants, habitats for fisheries, pollination and carbon storage. The question is, how do we, collectively, pay nature to insure that we can continue to enjoy all these benefits? Progressive companies are looking for ways to help. So, for example, Coca Cola has an expansive, expensive global program to protect and generate fresh water, sometimes in unorthodox ways--recently, I learned that Coke and a bottler are paying farmers in the highlands of Guatemala to use more ecologically-sound farming methods to protect watersheds which feed the MesoAmerican reef. They're even supplying the villagers with more-efficient wood stoves, so they don't have to cut down as many trees. Is this charity? Or smart business, since Coke needs fresh water to deliver its product?

Shrinking Wetlands Pose Dilemma: Mar 20, 5:35am 1 review ecology, environment, water, green, lake
http://www.aboutmyplanet.com/environment/shrinking-wetlands/; Hydroelectricity is one of the greener energy-generating option currently available. By harnessing the power of flowing water, electricity can be produced with lower emissions than conventional fossil fuel sources. In Africa, hydroelectric dams are implicated in some serious environmental issues. Lake Victoria is one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, and is the source of the White Nile River. It hosts valuable fisheries, as well as supporting a population of 30 million people around its basin. A new study has looked at the effects of two dams on the lake's ecosystem. It seems that prolonged overuse of water has affected water levels - with a drop of at least two metres in the past seven years. Apparently, both Uganda and Egypt have been extracting water at a faster rate than agreed upon 50 years ago.

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