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Water Resources
November 28, 2003
The Environmental Magazine
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| | A Politically Connected Industry Devastates the Everglades
-- Last spring, in a bravura display of clout, the industry succeeded in ramming a sweetheart deal through the Florida legislature that gives Big Sugar more time to clean up its act. The measure, supported by Governor Jeb Bush, pushes back a looming 2006 water cleanup deadline to 2013 and gives sugar companies until 2017 to pay a cleanup tax. |
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October 13, 2003
Granma
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| | Making Water Drinkable
-- To purify this vital liquid, Cuba currently buys replacement parts from distant markets at prices 30-40% higher than for what we could buy them in the United States. |
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October 12, 2003
Prensa Latina
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| | Cuba: Aquiculture
-- Before 1959 Cuba was a country of very few reservoirs. In 1963 a terrible hurricane hit - it claimed hundreds of lives and wrought havoc on the economy. Flora demonstrated the dire necessity of reservoirs of great quantities of water and as protection against flooding of coastal settlements. This reason, as well as many others, gave way to a program of hydraulic development that demonstrated the will of the Revolutionary Government. |
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September 01, 2002
journal Voluntad Hydraulica (Hydraulic Resolve) 2002
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| | The Institutionalization of Cuban Determination: Hydraulic Resolve
-- Last year it became very evident to us that it was necessary to create a Hydraulic Resolve, a concern for water. |
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| 2/8/03 | | Eco Cuba Exchange launches US-Cuba "Sister Swamps" initiative on UN World Wetlands Day -- Eco Cuba Exchange, a Cuba program of Global Exchange, is pleased to announce the launching of its Sister Swamps Initiative (Pantanos Hermanos). The project will link conservation efforts between US and Cuban wetlands through a donation fund for material assistance for Cuban efforts, and through informational and people to people exchanges between the two countries.(Global Exchange press release) |
| 3/1/02 |
| Emeralds of the Cauto (PDF 469kb) -- The reforestation project in the hardscrabble eastern province of Granma is proving to be a remarkably successful experiment in support of the region's environmental rehabilitation and economic and social progress. (Choices) |
| Spring 2000 |
| Incremental Ecological Wastewater Treatment: The Havana Prototype -- In April 2000, a graduate student team from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Washington, led by professor Hilda Blanco, came to Havana to explore the possibility of siting an ecological wastewater treatment system in one of the city's neighborhoods. The three main goals of the study were to specify and site a prototype system, stimulate community participation regarding river health and wastewater, and develop a template that may be applied to other areas of the country and around the world. (Univeristy of Washington) |
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