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and Canadian governments, began testing for PFAS chemicals last August. He wants to incorporate layers of data on climate change, nutrient inputs from aquaculture and agriculture, and ocean dynamics. The post What’s Up With Water – June 14, 2021 appeared first on Circle of Blue. That is not easy work.”.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

The federal government acknowledged the changing conditions on Monday, declaring a Tier 1 shortage for the lower Colorado River basin, setting the stage for more drastic measures in the near future. The agreement is between a dam operator, farm districts, the federal government, and a conservation group.

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JUNE 21, 2021

It pulled water from its site outside the town of Orland, an agricultural valley some 100 miles north of Sacramento, an area covered by almond, walnut, and olive orchards. The trend lines aren’t promising, so government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for a difficult summer in which thousands of wells could fail.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A new report finds that agricultural policies throughout the European Union do not align with water directives. New EU Report Explores Sustainable Water Use In Agriculture. New rice varieties in India could cut water use by up to 60 percent, according to farmers and government officials. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. 60 PERCENT.

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APRIL 11, 2025

SGMAs framework provides local government with relative flexibility to manage its groundwater resources, but gives state agencies oversight authority and the right to intervene. This work is supported by the Water Foundation, the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative [Competitive Grant no. 2021-69012-35916] from the U.S.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

In Case You Missed It: HotSpots H2O: 100,00 Displaced as Water Scarcity Ignites Ethnic Clashes in Cameroon – Climate change has made rainfall in the Sahel more variable, straining Cameroon’s agriculture industry and sparking ethnic tensions. “Third Pole” Glaciers Melting At An Alarming Rate, Study Finds. ON THE RADAR.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Global food supply chains are further stretched from the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions brought on by the war in Ukraine, which have disrupted the movement of grains and other agricultural products and resulted in shortages and massive price spikes. And Russia plays a major role in fulfilling the world’s fertilizer demand.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s an expert, hours-long guided excursion across Lenawee County during which Taylor explains the cross-cutting complexities, underperforming government programs, ineffective conservation investments, and cascading ecological and health threats from liquid manure that aren’t visible but exist everywhere across her region’s bucolic landscape.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 4, 2021. In much of the country’s agricultural heartland, soil water levels are a third of what is needed to sustain healthy crops. The Chilean government declared an agricultural emergency in many provinces, estimating that rainfall is down between 62 and 80 percent in some regions.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Following the wide coverage of a suspected Chinese spy balloon in US airspace earlier in February, Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) and others have proposed legislation that would seek to limit foreign ownership of US farmland, targeting China, Russia, and other “adversaries” of the US government. million acres of US agricultural land—about 4.5

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Michigan counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue – September 27, 2021. The agriculture that he and some 850 other county farmers practice earns roughly $260 million annually, more than most of the state’s other big farm counties.

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JUNE 17, 2021

Government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for difficult months ahead. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – June 17, 2021. The property, located outside the town of Orland, is in an agricultural valley some 100 miles north of Sacramento, an area covered by almond, walnut, and olive orchards.

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JUNE 3, 2021

Why it matters: Groundwater wells across the country being drilled deeper to locate sufficient fresh water supplies, a 2019 study Although the study did not examine the causes of deeper wells, the authors suggested several contributing factors, including contaminated surface water from agricultural runoff. Agricultural Industry.

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JUNE 21, 2021

A decades-long drought in one of the warming world’s most arid regions, heightened by what many consider to be governmental mismanagement, has set the stage for a severe, dangerously dry 2021. In the Middle East, 85 percent of water is used for agriculture and irrigation. The agricultural sector lost $2.79

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

We need to redefine food security The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines food security as “access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life.“ This name highlights racism as the root cause of these issues, including historic disinvestment and exclusion by government and businesses.

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JUNE 25, 2021

Agricultural contamination is polluting waters in Brazil’s largest wetland. “We Why it matters: Polluting industrial development, ambitious agricultural production, and grave hydrological mismanagement have produced an economic and environmental crisis that is now endemic to India, Circle of Blue reported in 2018.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has acknowledged its extensive history of discrimination directed at Black farmers and other marginalized groups. Not only were they met with pure hostility, outright violence, and exclusion, but the US government also made unfulfilled promises to provide land to freed men.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

The consequences of heirs’ property In situations where natural disasters such as hurricanes and tornadoes occur and impact the properties, these families have difficulty accessing FEMA funds or government assistance. The commission will be comprised of members from select nonprofit organizations, judges, and government officials.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

This month, the federal government will officially (and in my opinion, prematurely) end the pandemic food assistance expansion. Few would know that the poverty threshold in the United States originated in the 1960s and was determined using the cost of a government-determined diet in 1963. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

Why Are Solutions So Slow? – The water supply in Fuller Acres, California has been contaminated with a byproduct of agricultural soil fumigants for decades. The Ethiopian government is building the GERD, a hydropower project, to provide reliable electricity to its population of over 100 million.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

As those paying attention to agriculture know, climate impacts have become increasingly apparent since the last assessment was published in 2018. The NCA5 covers a lot of ground, but this summary focuses on aspects most relevant to agriculture.

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JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. South Korea is one of the world’s great economic success stories, going from an impoverished agricultural country at midcentury to a developed country today. and Australia. South Korea has made significant international climate commitments.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

By Eli Francovich, Columbia Insight — December 7, 2021. In June, the Church’s agricultural holding company beat out Gates’ 100C LLC, cementing the Latter-day Saints as one of the largest commercial agricultural landowners in the western United States. Ghost cattle—200,000 made-up heifers. World of scarcity’.

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

Despite evidence it could contaminate drinking water, the New South Wales government is reversing a decision to block a mine expansion project. The New South Wales government has overturned a decision to block a mine expansion despite evidence the project could irreversibly damage drinking water supplies. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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APRIL 18, 2023

The federal government has the power to give people more and better choices about what we eat, and this year presents an excellent opportunity for positive change. Funded both through federal grants and private dollars, 1,325 sites participated in 2021 and supported 763,962 people across the country, contributing more than $56.7

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Since its launch in 2021, the grant program has awarded nearly $21 million to 64 projects. PaEN] -- Registration Now Open For PASA 2025 Sustainable Agriculture Conference Feb. reservoir conservation releases, aquifer storage and recovery, and coordinated use of surface water and groundwater); -- Demand modification projects (e.g.,

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JUNE 30, 2021

National Geographic reports that local agroforestry cooperative in Brazil called RECA could become a model for agriculture in Brazil—one that requires far less land than cattle ranching, preserves biodiversity, protects soil and water, and sequesters carbon in its trees, mitigating climate change. ON THE RADAR.

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JUNE 2, 2021

Let the government help us. Al Jazeera reports that climate change, state corruption and mismanagement have hurt the agricultural sector in Nineveh. The post The Stream, June 2, 2021: More Than Six Dozen Dams In U.S. I have seven children, two of whom already have diarrhea because of the bad water in this village.

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MAY 17, 2023

A more thorough history would include the settling and colonization of California by the Spanish (1500s) and Mexican (early 1800s) governments, but for brevity, I focus here on the intentional and duplicitous actions of the California state government (established in 1850) and its co-conspirator: the United States federal government.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Why Are Solutions So Slow? – The water supply in Fuller Acres, California has been contaminated with a byproduct of agricultural soil fumigants for decades. The post The Stream, December 17, 2021: A $200 Million Investment Aims To Raise Lake Mead Levels appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

CARB’s use of the LCFS as a cash cow to fund manure digesters is bad transportation fuel policy and bad agricultural policy. California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government. If it did, it would be subject to rules governing offsets that CARB would be required to enforce.

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JUNE 7, 2021

The main cause of the bloom is excess amounts of phosphorus that run off into the lake from agricultural sources and urbanized landscapes. Decreasing this phosphorus runoff from agricultural sources requires Canada, Ontario, and our U.S. Farming and agriculture. Why do algae blooms happen, and what can we do about it?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Department of Agriculture. And it gives every citizen the authority to bring suit against polluters and government agencies that are doing just that in violation of the public trust. “If Department of Agriculture 2017 Census and U.S. The total number of acres and location of manifested waste is not known.

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JUNE 9, 2023

This article provides an overview of the second interview in a three-part interview series that explores how digitalization is reshaping environmental governance. His current project explores precision agriculture in the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Visser earned his Ph.D.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

By Christian Thorsberg, Circle of Blue — August 10, 2021. Everyone north of the Dry River was urged by the government to evacuate, though political distrust and an intimate connection with their homes made such a move difficult. The government also fails to recognize Indigenous groups as having a stake in the region.

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JULY 28, 2022

Climate adaptation is moving into the limelight, with major funding on adaptation from Congress and state governments. The 2021 infrastructure bill, which required bipartisan support in both Houses to pass, contained $47 billion for climate resilience. Notably, this funding is coming with bipartisan support.

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On December 16, the Department of Agriculture announced it has protected 2,569 acres on 30 farms in 18 counties from future development, investing more than $7.2 Preserving farmland is an investment in feeding all of our families in the future," Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding said. "It Click Here for a list of farms protected.

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