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  • Lessons from India in building urban resilience

    May 29, 2017 |

    Citiscope |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: India, Surat, Gujarat

    TARU, an Indian thinktank, has found that Indians cities have combined decentralized action and "multi-stakeholder engagement" in public policy to respond to problems of scarcity in water and power as well as climate change-related natural disasters. Municipalities are putting responsibility for improving local lives at the grassroots level; integrating disruptive technologies from the private sector; and fostering collaboration between government and citizens.

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  • Urban forests increasingly central to planning in poor and rich countries alike

    January 30, 2017 |

    Citiscope |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver

    Implementing and maintaining healthy urban forests is becoming more popular throughout communities internationally. Results from cities that have moved in this direction not only include an improvement to community and environmental health but also come with an economic valuation in the form of pollution removal, carbon sequestration and stormwater alleviation.

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  • With White Bear as poster child, Minnesota tests new approach to limited water supplies

    January 08, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    A new effort involving just about anyone who flushes a toilet from Lino Lakes to Woodbury is about to eclipse the scattered sprinkling limits and water-saving campaigns to rescue a shrinking White Bear Lake.

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  • To everyone's surprise, forests are returning to Malawi. Here's why.

    May 26, 2015 |

    Ensia |

    Photojournalism |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Malawi

    The people of Malawi count on wood for cooking, cleaning, and sanitation, which contributes to the country’s ranking as fifth highest in the world for deforestation. Once thought unsolvable, the people of the country are planting trees, benefiting from water filters, and using efficient cookstoves.

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  • Awasi Residents Invest in Rain Water Harvesting to curb Water Shortage

    October 26, 2018 |

    Talk Africa |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Awasi

    Investing in tanks to collect rainwater can help remote communities increase their resilience to shortages and improve the lives of residents. In Kisumu County, Kenya, villagers who struggle with water shortages have turned to collecting rainwater. Although the county is preparing to drill new boreholes to serve local schools and hundreds of residents, acute water shortages are made more bearable by storing rainwater.

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  • In Florida's tomato fields, a fight for ethical farm labor grows

    November 16, 2015 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Immokalee, Florida

    Sexual harassment and assault, and almost non-existent job security, are just some of the problems that plague migrant workers in the United States. A decade-long farm worker-led effort to push corporations to demand farmers submit to “clean labor” audits has yielded, for the first time, the introduction of shade tents, mandated water and bathroom breaks.

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  • Can saltwater quench our growing thirst?

    April 13, 2015 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Population growth, climate change, and droughts are factors that have depleted the world’s freshwater resources. Scientists around the world have experimented with desalination of salt water to increase the supply the drinking water and have achieved positive results. In 2015, more countries and cities in the world look to provide desalination, including California’s $1 billion effort to build a plant for San Diego.

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  • The ‘solar canals' making smart use of India's space

    August 03, 2020 |

    BBC |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India, Gujarat

    Covering canals with solar panels has allowed Indian communities to save land, water and carbon emissions, and even bring electricity to rural villages. The solar panels are suspended on metal structures over the canal, which can generate electricity for farmers and be fed into the state grid or sold to public utilities. While these canal-top solar power plants can be expensive to build, so far, eight Indian states have commissioned canal solar projects.

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  • Less water, no soil, more fodder: Kenya farmers beat drought

    February 09, 2018 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Timau

    Over 5000 farmers across Kenya have begun using hydroponic techniques to grow fodder for their cows. This trend ensures milk production is still high in time of drought, when traditionally grown grass doesn’t do well. Groups including Hydroponics Kenya and Grandeur Africa have trained farmers in these water-saving techniques.

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  • How off-the-grid Navajo residents are getting running water

    June 20, 2018 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Thoreau, New Mexico

    In the Navajo Nation, a territory the size of West Virginia that spans counties in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, people live in extreme poverty and lack access to clean water or electricity. A group called DigDeep is now serving the Navajo residents with large water storage systems and solar-powered pumps to bring water directly into the home rather than traveling miles away to carry water home. DigDeep is equipping nearly 300 homes in the area and has since received funding from Rotary International to expand their work further.

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