http://news.nuprana.com Dedicated to create awareness about the importance of water conservation through a relevant compilation of related news. Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:47:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a very interesting video about the water situation in the World and in the US, with some useful recommendations at the end. http://news.nuprana.com/2008/11/07/expert-explains-a-world-suffering-from-water-shortage/ As the planet’s once plentiful blue resource gets used up, companies are acting to secure their supply and become more efficient users of water.  A business publication from the UK called Ethical Corporation has published an interesting report on this trend, which we've pulled excerpts from here:   The world’s water supplies are ... http://news.nuprana.com/2008/11/07/one-of-the-largest-public-health-issues-of-our-time/ SAINT PAUL, Minn., Nov 05, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Yesterday Minnesota voters approved the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment, the largest conservation ballot measure in history, according to The Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national conservation organization. At more than $5.5 billion dollars for land and water ... http://news.nuprana.com/2008/11/07/minessota-voters-approve-55-billion-for-land-and-water-conservation/ CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) -- The drought that has plagued the Deep South for more than a year is creeping northward, and officials in multiple states are restricting outdoor burning in the face of water shortages and forest fire risks from falling leaves and tinder-dry conditions. Extreme drought conditions, the second-worst ... http://news.nuprana.com/2008/10/18/souths-dry-spell-travels-north/ By Lilly Fowler There was a time when the actions to solve Los Angeles' water problems read like a dystrophic political novel. At the beginning of the last century, L.A. Mayor Frederick Eaton and William Mulholland, superintendent of the city's newly created Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), plotted to ... http://news.nuprana.com/2008/10/17/israel-could-bring-solutions-to-la-water-shortage/ DUBOIS - Mayor John "Herm" Suplizio is asking City of DuBois residents to voluntarily conserve water, he announced at yesterday's city council meeting. Mayor Suplizio called on residents to eliminate unnecessary water usage in order to maintain the city's water supply. Water levels are currently down at the city's reservoir."We're ... http://news.nuprana.com/2008/10/14/dubois-pensilvania-asks-for-voluntary-water-conservation/ WAILUKU - Periodic but isolated showers on windward and mauka areas of the islands had little effect on the watersheds, Maui County Water Director Jeff Eng reported Friday. In his weekly water use report, Eng said water use was up by 620,000 gallons a day in the Central Maui and Upcountry ... http://news.nuprana.com/2008/10/14/hawaii-water-usage-up-reservoirs-on-decline/ HEMET – Private boat launches in the Inland Empire's largest reservoir – Diamond Valley Lake – will be indefinitely suspended starting Tuesday because of low lake levels caused by drought, according to the Metropolitan Water District. In the meantime, the MWD board of directors Tuesday will discuss options for lengthening the ... http://news.nuprana.com/2008/10/14/in-california-drought-prompts-closure-of-boat-launch/ By Jason McLure Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia needs $266 million to help feed 6.4 million people suffering from food shortages due to drought, an increase of 1.8 million since June, the government said. Millions of peasant farmers and pastoralists in the Horn of Africa country are struggling to cope with the ... http://news.nuprana.com/2008/10/14/ethiopia-says-it-needs-266-million-for-emergency-drought-aid/ The banks of Lake Lanier in Buford, Ga., look about the same as last year: Closed boat ramps, parched soil and lonely islands peeking above the surface that should be covered by a dozen feet of water. Epic drought forced officials across the Southeast about a year ago to impose severe ... http://news.nuprana.com/2008/10/14/georgia-drought-continues-despite-hurricanes/