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  • Weathering the Future

    April 12, 2023 |

    PBS |

    Video |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Communities across the United States combat and adapt to extreme weather with local solutions. In California, drought-striken Orange County recycles wastewater into safe drinking water, and the Karuk Tribe prevents forest fires with controlled, cultural burns. A farmer in Iowa practices no-till farming to prevent soil erosion from heavy rain. Indigenous tribes on the Louisiana coast gather empty oyster shells and use them to create artificial breakwater reefs that slow down erosion from rising ocean waters.

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  • Utah golf courses say they're reducing water use. Some can prove it.

    April 10, 2023 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Golf courses in Utah are conserving water amid a severe drought by planting drought-tolerant grass, watering fewer areas, not filling ponds, and using water runoff from a nearby interstate.

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  • LA reuses lots of stormwater, but wants to save more

    March 22, 2023 |

    KCRW |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    To help combat the water shortage, Los Angeles captures stormwater in giant dams and releases it later to slowly seep underground and recharge the aquifers. This water supplies about a quarter of the locals for the year.

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  • How do you grow crops with no water? A rancher on the Gila River is trying an old approach

    March 13, 2023 |

    AZ Central (The Arizona Republic) |

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    Response Location: United States, Gila Bend, Arizona

    An Arizona farmer became the first organic regenerative certified farm in the southwest using practices that conserve water and improve soil health along the drought-stuck Gila River. His practices include growing arid-adapted crops, integrating livestock grazing, and planting cover crops.

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  • Why Farmers in Zimbabwe Are Shifting to Bees

    February 06, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Zimbabwe, Mutare

    Farmers in Zimbabwe are diversifying their income with beekeeping to offset financial losses from crops underperforming during increasingly severe droughts.

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  • A California town's wastewater is helping it battle drought

    January 23, 2023 |

    Grist |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Healdsburg, California

    To comply with federal environmental wastewater discharge regulations, Healdsburg, California, upgraded its wastewater-reclamation facility to purify water enough for reuse. In order to reduce the amount of water discharged into the local river, the city made the purified water free to use for pastures, agriculture, residential use, and non-dairy livestock.

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  • Crop of the future? More climate-hit Kenyans count on fish farming

    January 16, 2023 |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Kibingo

    The Kirinyaga county government is helping Kenyan farmers build fish ponds and supplying them with their first stock of fish and food in an effort to diversify their incomes while adding rainwater storage amid the drought.

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  • Bangladesh farmers swap rice for vegetables as water dries up

    December 27, 2022 |

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    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Bangladesh, Rajshahi

    Farmers in Bangladesh are dealing with a lack of groundwater by growing vegetables instead of rice because they require less water and bring in more income.

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  • Utah looks to expand cloud seeding to help with drought, Great Salt Lake

    December 02, 2022 |

    KSTU-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Tremonton, Utah

    Utah’s state government and Department of Natural Resources provide residents with machines to increase winter storm precipitation through cloud seeding. The process uses heat from a propane burner to release silver iodide into the air, which can increase snowfall and help combat drought.

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  • You can still have an 'oasis' in the desert

    November 16, 2022 |

    Utah Public Radio |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    A study in Arizona found that landscapes that include a mix of desert and high-water-use plants are the best at simultaneously conserving water and limiting the urban heat effect.

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