The News Review:
- IBM launches water-management services operation
- US appeals court sides with refuge in water fight
- FACTBX: Water scarcity and agriculture in California
- EPA DuPont reach agreement on water contaminant
- Has the Water Shortage Been ver-Hyped?
IBM launches water-management services operation
The Associated Press
For example instead of a meter-reader from the power company traipsing through your backyard IBM is banking that one day your meter and your neighbors’ will feed data directly into the utility’s computer network. IBM says its new services will help water providers become more efficient in overseeing ever-more-precious supplies and responding faster to contamination and other emergencies. The company has been working on a project called SmartBay with an Irish marine institute to develop sensors that are monitoring pollution marine life and wave conditions around Galway Bay and transmitting data to researchers. Among the benefits IBM contends is that computers can track floating debris that pose a hazard to commercial fishermen. This “smarter planet” theme is part of IBM’s strategy to keep making money in the recession. The company’s chairman and CE Sam Palmisano said in a letter to shareholders this week that IBM will be aggressive in drumming up business in areas like managing traffic power grids water food health care and finance.
US appeals court sides with refuge in water fight
Houston Chronicle
Fish and Wildlife Service established the 25000-acre refuge in 2006 without first considering environmental and economic impacts. They claimed the wildlife service violated federal law by not addressing the refuge’s effects on Dallas’ water supply economy and future water planning. The reservoir was not scheduled to be built until 2050. Comments are subject to the site’s.
FACTBX: Water scarcity and agriculture in California
Reuters
Economic losses could rise to $3 billion and 95000 agricultural jobs will be lost. Federal water deliveries will be zero and state water allocations could be 15 percent of the amount requested. — ver the course of this century climate models show California’s water supply dropping 24 percent to 30 percent most in the second half according to studies by the University of California Davis. (Sources: Reuters U. Department of Agriculture California Department of Food and Agriculture Public Policy Institute of California Pacific Institute for Studies on Development Environment and Security Los Angeles Times and University of California Davis) (Reporting by Ed Stoddard editing by Mary Milliken).
EPA DuPont reach agreement on water contaminant
Forbes
Environmental Protection Agency and. In an order announced Thursday EPA’s Region III said DuPont (nyse:.
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Has the Water Shortage Been ver-Hyped?
City Watch
Bettina Boxall provides this report in the Times. The warnings have been ominous this winter: California is headed into the worst drought in modern history. The water supply is drying up. r as one water association declared last week "Things just keep getting worse and worse. "Is it really that bad?If you look at the numbers the answer is no. Not only have a series of February storms pushed up mountain snowpack levels but by historical standards the current three-year drought is far from the worst. Monday the state Department of Water Resources announced that the mountain snowpack that feeds the state’s reservoirs has reached 80% of normal for the date.