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Published on New Scientist.com, by Peter Aldhous, November 01, 2011.
Interactive graphic: Parched future for the Southwest … //
… In the longer term, there will be changes in store across the region. People may have to get used to the idea that water recovered from treated sewage is fit for drinking and not just for industrial use, for example.
The cost of failing to plan for a drier future could be a replay across the Southwest of the hardship faced by Texans in 2011. But agencies that are planning for climate change say it will be possible to adapt. “It’s a manageable situation,” says Thomas Buschatzke of the Arizona Department of Water Resources. “But it’s not a situation that’s going to manage itself.” (full text).
Your clever body: Thinking from head to toe, by David Robson, October 21, 2011;
the devil shivered in his sleeping bag, by Neil Pederson, September 4, 2011;
Office of Academic and Research Programs: A Guide to Educational Programs in Environment and Sustainable Development, Office of Academic and Research Programs, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, 81 pdf-pages, Fall 2011;
Imaging the Sources of Great Alaskan Earthquakes;
Vanishing Tropical Glaciers.
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