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  • Is there a way to revive drought-stricken soil?

    September 05, 2016 |

    High Country News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Center, Colorado

    Two brothers in rural Colorado use cover crops - crops grown to decompose into the soil in order to improve water retention - to cut back on excess water and synthetic fertilizer use on their potato farm. Despite high upfront costs, the brothers invested in cover cropping and managed to save money on water and resources in the long run, proving the positive financial and environmental effects of the cover crop system.

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  • Local experts offer free classes, resources to create water efficient landscaping

    June 21, 2021 |

    KSTU-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Localscapes is a program in Utah promoting more water-efficient landscaping. The program includes state-based horticulturists, landscape professionals, and water experts who help interested people make the most sustainable use of their yards and lawns. "The program focuses on five techniques: a central open space, gathering areas, activity zones, paths and planting beds."

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  • In Texas, Mexican Firefighters Are Saving the Rio Grande

    April 28, 2016 |

    The Atlantic |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Texas

    The Rio Grande River runs between the border of the United States and Mexico and supplies water to 5 million people across the nations. With wildfires continuously threatening the health of the river, an international firefighting crew known as Los Diablos are working to implement controlled, prescribed burns to rid the area of an invasive plant species that fuels the fires.

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  • How tech is putting the needs of impoverished Kenyans on the map

    August 06, 2018 |

    Under-Told Stories Project |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya

    In Kenya, mapping technology is helping to raise the standard of living by ensuring that the location of urban slums are being recorded, along with locations of electric lines, water tanks, public toilets, and more. Residents are trained in how to enter locations in the map so that public and private entities can provide better services - and this is just one of many technological initiatives helping Kenyans living in poverty.

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  • Man Invented Edible Water Jellies That Resemble Candy to Help Hydrate Dementia Patients

    August 01, 2019 |

    Distractify |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: England, London

    People suffering from Alzheimer's or dementia often struggle with drinking enough water, but an engineer in London developed Jelly Drops which serve to hydrate this population. Disguised as a chewable gummy, Jelly Drops are easier to digest and also keep the consumer hydrated longer than a standard glass of water.

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  • The Feat in Hojancha, the Town that Lost its Forest

    January 21, 2019 |

    La Voz de Guanacaste |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Costa Rica, Hojancha, Guanacaste

    In 1976, the Costa Rican city Hojancha preserved only 2% of its land as forest, and as a result their water supply (the Río Nosara river basin) dried up from the lack of vegetation. Sixteen years into the crisis, two friends conceived and ran an initiative to reforest the land by asking every family in the city to donate ¢1,000 a month until they could buy back the land in full from the ranchers who owned it. Now, the land is thriving again, though the project of regrowing the forest continues still today.

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  • Our drinking water systems are a disaster. What can we do?

    April 11, 2016 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States

    The water system in the United States is beginning to be in need of replacement. In order to facilitate this infrastructure project and prevent it from becoming overwhelming, technology such as water sensors and software are being used to monitor water usage and replace the pipes that are most dire as they degrade.

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  • How a Small Town Is Standing Up to Fracking

    May 22, 2017 |

    Rolling Stone |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Grant Township, Pennsylvania

    While the U.S. economy enjoys the cheap fuel prices afforded by fracking, the consequences on the environment and communities like Grant Township in Pennsylvania reveal the ugly underbelly of the oil and gas industry and the broken regulatory infrastructure of state and federal government. But Grant wasn't willing to roll over and just let their woodlands and water sources be polluted, so they worked together and took a creative defense against the installation of a toxic injection well in their town: by granting the trees, animals, and streams rights to protection and battling it out in court.

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  • This country gave all its rivers their own legal rights

    August 18, 2019 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    As countries look to new ways to best conserve rivers, several are testing out a methodology of giving human rights to the bodies of water. Although not without challenges, this solution offers a way for those harming rivers to be held accountable to any damage they caused, same as if they were harming another human being.

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  • What Can We Do About Our Water?

    July 01, 2019 |

    Gulfshore Life |

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    Response Location: United States, Sanibel, Florida

    On Sanibel Island, Florida, residents know all too well the intensive steps necessary to clean up polluted water. Like many other bodies of water in Florida and across the country, the city has suffered from "nutrition pollution" that has threatened their environment, but comprehensive measures enacted over the past decades - including land use plans that severely restrict development and efforts to educate homeowners on pond management - are helping the area turn around and providing a playbook for other cities.

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