Laser experiment hopes to save farm water

Seventy-six years after the invention of the modern sprinkler helped revolutionize farming, lasers may revolutionize it again.

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Old Canals Concern Federal Water Bosses

The failure of an earthen embankment on a century-old irrigation canal that flooded this growing town has federal water managers concerned about the safety of nearly 8,000 miles of similar aging canals across the West.

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'Cool farms' mask the extent of global warming

You've heard of urban heat islands. Now researchers have confirmed the existence of their opposite: cool farm patches.

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A coalition of tribes, conservationists, and commercial fishing groups filed suit today in San Francisco Superior Court to block a precedent-setting agency proposal to strip endangered species protections from threatened coho salmon in northern California's Klamath River waters …

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Negotiators are on the brink of achieving the most comprehensive California water legislation in half a century. They're also in danger of an embarrassing belly flop. Both sides -- whether talking about Democrats vs. Republicans, environmentalists vs. farmers, cities vs.

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The "Watershed-wide" permits CDFG is attempting to give farmers and ranchers in these Klamath River tributaries attempt to put rancher-dominated Resource Conservation Districts (RCDs) in charge of enforcing state law pertaining to dams and stream diversions.

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A plan to restore endangered chinook salmon and threatened steelhead to Central Valley streams asks Californians to cut their water consumption by 20 percent over the next decade. The National Marine Fisheries Service on Wednesday released a draft of the plan, which would cost u …

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Climate change presents California agriculture with two major challenges: how to reduce its contribution to climate change while arming itself against the threats a warming planet poses to agricultural production. Fortunately, many of the measures that would reduce greenhouse ga …

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The Obama Administration is fully engaged in a coordinated response to California's ongoing water crisis, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Chair Nancy Sutley of the White House Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ) and other top Obama Administration officials reported to …

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The Obama administration on Wednesday urged California Gov.

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Stakeholders involved in discussions about removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River are trying to address Siskiyou County's concerns. Three of the four dams and two-thirds of the Klamath River are within the California county.

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"What is at stake here is not just the survival of species but the health of entire ecosystems and the economies that depend on them.

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Parts of India are on track for severe water shortages. according to results from Nasa's gravity satellites. The Grace mission discovered that in the country's northwest - including Delhi - the water table is falling by about 4cm (1.6 inches) per year.

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Northern India's groundwater levels have dropped dramatically, according to a study released Wednesday, raising the possibility of conflicts between farmers and urban dwellers.

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Our household water use accounts for only 6 percent of the water that we consume.This article explores our "water footprint."

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In the deserts of Israel, there is a plant that waters itself. The plant, a type of rhubarb, has specially designed leaves that channel rain water to its roots. It is the only known plant in the world able to self-irrigate.

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Researchers from the University of Haifa-Oranim in Israel have managed to make out the "self-irrigating" mechanism of the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water than otherwise expected for a plant in this region.

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Africa's people are some of the poorest on the planet, and lack even the basics, such as water, to survive.

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"No, it's not the Florida Everglades; it's a private initiative launched by a group of Israeli environmental activists who came up with an idea to construct artificial swamps near Palestinian villages that are specially designed for sewage treatment.

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The Chinese gateway to the ancient Silk Road is being flooded – and the culprit, researchers say, is climate change.

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Over the past decade, the number of people on Earth shot up by more than 13 percent, to nearly 6.8 billion people.

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Archaeologists preparing for the expansion of a Tucson wastewater treatment facility have discovered the remains of the earliest known irrigation system in the Southwest, a farming community that dates to at least 1200 BC.

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Low water means irrigation diversions from several rivers in North Central Washington will be regulated earlier in the season than in other years, according to the Washington Department of Ecology. Stream flows in the Okanogan and Similkameen rivers are well below average a …

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With over 70 per cent of its economy dependent on agriculture, India has a lot to learn from Israeli expertise in the agriculture sector.

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Farmers, fish and workers in the Yakima Valley will benefit from nearly $44 million in federal stimulus spending. The money is earmarked for three projects to make efficient use of irrigation water in the Sunnyside Division and improve fish passage at Roza Dam, a key spot in the …

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Four dams that are blamed for damaging salmon runs on the lower Snake River in Washington place the waterway third among the nation's most endangered rivers, according to an annual report by American Rivers. The conservation group on Tuesday said the Sacramento and San Joaquin …

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Within weeks, jackhammers will start knocking Savage Rapids Dam into rubble, and with it two decades of bitter battles over whether to keep what had become a crumbling symbol of a bygone era when rugged pioneers bent nature to their needs.

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Officials say endangered coho salmon were killed after a sudden drop in the water level of a Russian River tributary this week due to the siphoning of water used to protect crops from frost damage. The fish deaths come as a multi-agency task force is set to meet on Tuesday in Sa …

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