Topic – Water
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No Liberty wheat: too wet to plow
Liberty County
Late 2009 rains have left some Houston area farmers with fields too wet to plow. In Liberty County, no wheat was planted because farms missed the planting time
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Sierra Club - Water for People and the Environment Conference
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Houston ranks #95 out of 100 in big city water rankings
3 chemicals above legal limits
The City of Houston Public Works, which serves 2,700,000 people, fared poorly on the Environmental Working Group's Big City Water Ratings list.
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NY Times: Millions of Americans drink unhealthy yet legal tap water
>62 million exposed since 2004
The Safe Drinking Water Act is so out of date that the water Americans drink can pose what scientists say are serious health risks and still be legal.
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Roger Valdez
Block by Block Sustainability
Portland's Eco District strives for neighborhood- scale sustainability.
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Democratic and Republican mayors join forces in creating megaregion alliance
Centered on Atlanta, Charlotte
Shirley Franklin, Atlanta's Democratic mayor, and Pat McCrory, Charlotte's Republican mayor, joined other mayors in launching a Piedmont Megaregion Alliance.
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New York Commissioner wants loan scoring system to encourage energy efficiency and smart growth
Moves to revise scoring system
Pete Grannis has moved to include a smart growth score in community applications for low-interest loans from the EPA-led Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund.
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Rice University/Shell conference: Water in the Houston Metabolism
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