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  • What our sewage can (and can't) tell us about the spread of Omicron

    January 17, 2022 |

    TVO Today |

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    Response Location: Canada, Ontario

    Throughout the pandemic, testing for COVID-19 in wastewater has been used to monitor the transmission of the virus. Wastewater testing is a reliable tool that often complements clinical COVID-19 testing and can be used for the early detection of outbreaks and surges. In Ontario, each of the province’s 34 public-health units joined Ontario’s Wastewater Surveillance Initiative, allowing researchers and public-health units to work together on testing water samples.

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  • How Kwara Communities Stopped Drinking Contaminated Water From Same Source With Cows

    July 12, 2022 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kwara

    Two rural communities in rural Nigeria now have access to a solar-powered borehole that provides clean drinking water. The initiative has led to cleaner water and a reduction of ailments associated with the consumption of dirty water.

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  • How to Plant Millions of Oysters in a Day

    February 17, 2022 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Annapolis, Maryland

    Conservationists are injecting millions of baby oysters into the Chesapeake Bay region to boost the native populations and improve the water quality. With their efforts, they’ve been able to restore 10 tributaries and about 324 hectares of oyster reefs have been restored.

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  • I Drank Recycled Sewage To Get A Taste Of SoCal's Water Future

    June 27, 2022 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Groundwater Replenishment System recycles over 100 million gallons of wastewater a day. Once processed, this water, which is flushed down toilets and drains, is safe to drink and can help address California’s water shortage.

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  • How a trickle of water is breathing life into the parched Colorado River Delta

    April 19, 2020 |

    AZ Central (The Arizona Republic) |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Francisco Murguía, Baja California Sur

    A unique partnership between environmental groups and governments in the United States and Mexico has led to the resurrection of wetlands and forests in the long-dry Colorado River Delta. Since the waters were dammed and diverted in the 1900s, estuaries dried up and vegetation was lost. The two nations agreed to rewet the delta via a planned flood. Even though there isn’t enough water available to restore a flowing river, these restoration projects on parts of the delta have shown promise. Challenges, including limited funds and hotter, drier conditions due to climate change, remain for its longterm success.

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  • A shot of recycled water revives a flourishing ecosystem on the Santa Cruz River in Tucson

    September 08, 2021 |

    AZ Central (The Arizona Republic) |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    By rewetting part of the Santa Cruz River in Tucson, the city has been able to revitalize an ecosystem that was once thought to be lost. Through collaboration and research, hundreds of species of creatures have returned to the river. This restoration project could serve as a model for other cities that want to help their desert rivers and sustain wildlife habitats.

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  • How Portland's mutual aid supports local Indigenous communities

    September 22, 2020 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: Warm Springs Indian Reservation, United States, Oregon

    Indigenous communities in need of clean drinking water have turned to aid from a Black-led nonprofit in Portland. Don't Shoot Portland raised $16,000 dollars for water and other basic supplies for the Warm Springs Tribe, which is dealing with a high infection rate of coronavirus in addition to old and faulty infrastructure which has left much of the tribe without water. Mutual aid groups have temporarily come to the rescue of indigenous communities who have been unable to receive adequate government funding to repair old water pipes.

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  • Could Utah children help shape the destiny of the ailing Great Salt Lake?

    April 20, 2022 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    The Nature Conservancy's Wings & Water program allows fourth graders to explore Utah's Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve with educators in an effort to teach them the value of protecting nature.

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  • Are you watering your lawn wrong? USU's Water Checkers will help you figure it out

    June 30, 2022 |

    KUER Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Water Checkers visit homeowners in Salt Late City for free to help asses soil quality and determine if their sprinkler systems’ water distribution is working and efficient. By participating in this program, residents have reduced their irrigation by 7,900 gallons per month, which helps keep waters in tributaries of the Great Salt Lake.

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  • Could Human Pee Be the Key to Saving Seagrass?

    July 06, 2022 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    As ecologists look to protect failing seagrass ecosystems, they have turned to a surprising solution: crystallized human urine. In a lab study, seagrass treated with struvite — a crystalline substance formed from human wastewater — had five times more seagrass shoots than those treated with regular fertilizer. It’s difficult to get struvite commercially and it might not work in all types of environments, but if there is more of a supply, this part of human waste could help an important ecosystem.

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