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  • Las Vegas incentivizes removal of green turf. Should Utah?

    November 13, 2022 |

    Great Salt Lake Collaborative |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Las Vegas, Nevada

    The Southern Nevada Water Authority pays Las Vegas residents $3 for every square foot of lawn they tear out and replace with alternatives, like artificial turf, that use less water.

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  • How Belize Cut Its Debt by Fighting Global Warming

    November 07, 2022 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Belize

    The Nature Conservancy bailed Belize out of debt with blue bonds. In this practice, the nonprofit lends the country money to pay its bond debts provided Belize commits to using some of the money saved from paying the debts to protect marine resources.

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  • How Decades of Hard-Earned Protections and Restoration Reversed the Collapse of California's Treasured Mono Lake

    October 30, 2022 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Kootzaduka, United States, California

    An ecosystem restoration project that included a conglomeration of cutting water diversions, protection at different governmental levels, research, and stewardship has resulted in enough water reaching Mono Lake to keep the ecosystem alive and healing.

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  • How a simple rain water management system transformed a semi arid village in Rajasthan, India

    October 21, 2022 |

    Earth Solutions Network |

    Video |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: India, Laporiya, Rajasthan

    Residents of Lapodiya, India, created a Chauka System to manage rainwater and restore groundwater levels in their community. The system is made of shallow holes and canals that hold rainwater for a few days in the monsoon season allowing the water to seep into the soil over time.

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  • Harvesting Water in Arid Lands

    October 17, 2022 |

    The Water Desk |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Water harvesting is collecting free water, such as rain, stormwater, and greywater, to use and finding ways to make it linger longer into the dry season. This can include active strategies like collecting it in tanks or passive strategies like directing it towards rain gardens to water plants. Water harvesting can help prevent the depletion of lakes and rivers and save money.

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  • At Water's Edge: Searching for solutions at the Great Salt Lake's sister lakes across the Great Basin

    October 14, 2022 |

    Deseret News |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, California

    As the communities around the Great Salt Lake face overconsumption of its water and climate change effects, they can look to California’s Owens Lake and Mono Lake to see how they manage dust pollution and water levels from the same issues.

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  • New technology provides hope for the Great Lakes' polluted waters

    October 12, 2022 |

    Great Lakes Echo |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    Hypernucleation flotation technology skims water to separate out the harmful algae blooms. That process brings the nutrient levels in the body of water down to a level that other living things can survive in.

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  • Just add water and stir — Owens Lake shows Utahns that even when salty lakes hit their lowest point, they can recover

    October 12, 2022 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Lone Pine, California

    To adjust from L.A. regularly draining Owens Lake for its water supply, locals have found that they can recover the dry lake by simply re-adding water to it, which prevents it from creating toxic dust storms. When water is added to the lake, the environment wakes up and becomes home to several plants and animals, specifically millions of birds, which depend on habitats like Owens Lake when traveling around the world.

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  • How Utah can control dust from the Great Salt Lake — and why it will cost lots of money

    October 10, 2022 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    To prevent particulate matter air pollution from the dried-out Owens Lakebed, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power used a myriad of measures including shallow flooding, tillage, laying gravel, and planting managed vegetation.

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  • Some ships ditch fuel for wind power over pollution concerns

    September 27, 2022 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: France

    In France, some members of the shipping industry are using sailing ships run on wind power to deliver cargo in an effort to reduce fuel use, pollution, and carbon emissions.

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