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Southern California wildfire '75 percent contained'

Edit WPTV 06 Jun 2016
Firefighters using aircraft made water drops along the eastern and southern edges of the blaze, which was held to just over 500 acres, Los Angeles County Deputy Fire Chief John Tripp said ... Hot, dry conditions led to spot fires that had crews scrambling, but officials were encouraged by more favorable weather conditions Sunday, Tripp said ... Flames raced through drought-dry brush and came within yards of million-dollar homes....

Some evacuations lifted as crews fight California brush fire

Edit Naples Daily News 06 Jun 2016
Firefighters took advantage of cooler temperatures and calmer winds as aircraft made water drops along the eastern and southern edges of the blaze, which was held to just over 500 acres, Los Angeles County Deputy Fire Chief John Tripp said ... Hot, dry conditions led to spot fires that had crews scrambling, but officials were encouraged by more favorable weather conditions Sunday, Tripp said....

2016 Riverina Rice Harvest: Stronger Yields Results (Ricegrowers Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jun 2016
At a forecast of 245,000 tonnes, it is smaller than last year's harvest of 690,215 tonnes, with the reduction due mainly to lower water allocations ... SunRice estimates that, for growers who planted medium grain Reiziq in the MIA using the dry broadcast sowing method, this year's harvest generated an average gross margin of approximately $3,400 per hectare and $280 per megalitre ... Water Use (ML) 12.25....

Evacuations canceled for Southern California brush fire

Edit Boston Herald 06 Jun 2016
Firefighters using aircraft made water drops along the eastern and southern edges of the blaze, which was held to just over 500 acres, Los Angeles County Deputy Fire Chief John Tripp said ... Flames raced through drought-dry brush and came within yards of million-dollar homes ... More than 500 firefighters, aided by bulldozers and water-dropping helicopters, were on the scene, but the numbers were decreasing by the end of Sunday....

Some evacuations lifted near Los Angeles County wildfire

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 06 Jun 2016
Firefighters took advantage of cooler temperatures and calmer winds as aircraft made water drops along the eastern and southern edges of the blaze, which was held to just over 500 acres, Los Angeles County Deputy Fire Chief John Tripp said....

Latest: Evacuations ending for Southern California wildfire

Edit Boston Herald 06 Jun 2016
CALABASAS, Calif ... ___. 3 p.m ... Firefighters used water-dropping aircraft to attack the eastern and southern flanks, keeping the blaze at just over 500 acres ... ____. 1.45 p.m. Officials say a Los Angeles County fire that has charred more than 500 acres of dry brush and driven residents from their homes is contributing to poor air quality ... Dr ... ___. 8.10 a.m ... Tripp says hot, dry conditions a day earlier led to spot fires that had crews scrambling ... ....

Bizman builds lake to beat salinity, water shortage

Edit The Times of India 06 Jun 2016
Baathia, who runs a resort near the temple town, has undertaken the task of building a huge lake to reduce his property's dependence on underground water by using only the harvested rain water ... He said that since they did not have any water supply source from government and ground water being saline, they decided to tap rain water ... "The under-construction lake will conserve 2.6 million litre water annually....

Residents to initiate solid waste segregation in Surat

Edit The Times of India 06 Jun 2016
Surat ... "This would be setting a precedent for others ... Out of this 35 per cent is wet organic waste and 12-15 per cent dry organic waste ... The other waste would be collected in another basket ... Dry leaves and branches are dry organic waste and would be useful in making fertilizer along with wet organic waste," Adarsh Society chairman Girish Kazi said ... 35%. Dry organic waste like leaves and tree branches....

Landowner under fire from ramblers over ponds

Edit Scotsman 06 Jun 2016
Pollution of Wanloch Water from old lead workings has been investigated by the UK government's Coal Authority for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) ... Much of the pollution came from the Queensberry tailing ponds, which contain wastes from centuries of metal mining ... The report also urged further studies into the dangers of contaminated dust being blown into the air in dry weather and inhaled by walkers or residents ... ....

Track failure likely cause of oil train derailment

Edit Boston Herald 06 Jun 2016
Union Pacific inspects the tracks that run through Mosier, Oregon, twice a week, and the most recent inspection took place on May 31, Espinoza said ... Repairs to a water treatment system, which runs under the tracks, would need to be completed before people could return to their homes, the railroad said ... The Mosier waste water treatment plant and sewer system were not operational Sunday....

World Environment Day: Konkan Railway takes strident steps for Green Earth

Edit The Times of India 06 Jun 2016
This technology utilizes 70% less water than its manual cleaning counterpart. Konkan Railway saves over 10million liters of water in each plant annually. The effluent treatment plant attached to this facilitates the recycling of the consumed water ... Considering the huge benefits in terms of economy as well as the water and energy being saved, this technology is being promoted for use in the Indian Railways as well....

Dr Beach names Hawaii's Hanauma Bay the best in the US

Edit China Daily 06 Jun 2016
But Hawaii's Hanauma Bay, nestled inside a breeched volcanic cone on the southeastern shore of Oahu, has some of the state's calmest waters, most pristine beaches and world-renowned snorkeling over coral reefs that teem with colorful fish ... This year's top spot goes to Hanauma Bay, a picturesque nature reserve with gin-clear, turquoise water and abundant sea life ... "If you don't practice snorkeling, you will swallow water," she says....

Encroachment of water bodies threatens city's water supply

Edit The Times of India 06 Jun 2016
With more than 4,000 water bodies providing water to Chennai and its adjoining districts, it might seem like an embarrassment of riches, but rapid urbanization has led to their degradation and in some cases, death, warn water experts. There are more than 4,000 irrigation tanks that provide water to Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram districts besides Arakkonam taluk of Vellore district....
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