…$840 billion stimulus package enacted by Congress contained $105 billion for infrastructure, including work on highways, bridges and railroads, as well as wireless networks, power transmission lines and water projects….
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…(August 3, 2010) to as much as 46% (September 10, 2002).” Both short-term and long-term droughts directly impact agricultural production and water levels in groundwater, streams, rivers and reservoirs…. “Some…
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…the same income. Combined with cuts in the public provision of services, higher costs for food, water and transport, efforts to balance paid work and unpaid carework take a growing…
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…terms of potential water contamination); and more generally, those who did not support nanotechnology were more likely to see it as risky when exposed to uncivil comments. The authors note…
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…and irrigation infrastructures, all of which have substantial environmental impacts.” A related study in PNAS examines the water “footprint” of nations around the globe and looks at the emerging problems…
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…assets and 23% had houses that were “under water” — worth less on the market than the money owed on the mortgage. This stress has resulted in fewer Americans owning…
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…water or connection to electricity). The HOI was first published in 2008, and applied to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This book reports on the status and evolution of…
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…that was talking about terrestrial impacts, about impacts on forests and wildlife and topography and, oddly enough, on human beings. What it was saying was that because the Clean Water…
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…an online game that involves fetching water from a desert well without getting kidnapped by guerilla fighters. While serious games have been embraced by educators in and out of the…
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…and outdated. The most recent American Society of Civil Engineers’ report card gave the country’s infrastructure an overall D-plus grade, with particularly low scores for inland waterways and levees (D-minus);…
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