Climate Change Droughts

Is Your City Preparing for the Impacts of Climate Change on Its Water Resources?

Steve Fleischli | Posted 09.25.2011

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Steve Fleischli

No matter where they are located, communities nationwide need to prepare for climate change and the impacts it will have on local water resources -- from area waterways to drinking water supplies.

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Extreme Weather Makeover: The Dam Effect

Lori Pottinger | Posted 08.08.2011

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Lori Pottinger

Big dams are, in effect, experimental technology. Those who design, build and operate them can't predict with any certainty the many serious impacts they will have on life-giving river systems.

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Monster Floods And Killing Droughts Are 'New Normal' In U.S. Weather

Posted 07.19.2011

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WASHINGTON (By Deborah Zabarenko) - Heavy rains, deep snowfalls, monster floods and killing droughts are signs of a "new normal" of extreme U.S. weat...

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Ancient Megadroughts Offer Glimpse Of Future

Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (Reuters/Deborah Zabarenko) - Ancient megadroughts that lasted thousands of years in what is now the American Southwest could offer a pre...

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Report: India's Fast-Rising Temperature May Bring Increased Floods, Droughts And Disease

AP | KATY DAIGLE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW DELHI — A new report says India could be 2 degrees Celsius (3.8 F) warmer than 1970s levels within 20 years – a change that would disr...

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