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Wyke Farms to recover 95% of wastewater with £1.3m investment

Wyke Farms to recover 95% of wastewater with £1.3m investment | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it

The UK’s largest independent cheese-maker has officially opened a £1m water treatment plant that will recover up to 95% of its factory waste water.


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Waterless World: China’s ever-expanding desert wasteland

Waterless World: China’s ever-expanding desert wasteland | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it
As climate change makes vast parts of Inner Mongolia uninhabitable, an official declares: ‘Land desertification is China’s most important ecological problem.’
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Great story and graphic video demonstration of one compenent of climate change.

 

I still find it amazing this lack of will amongst most scientists in China  when it comes to criticizing Chinese policies.  This may be something of a misquote, but my experience shows it may well not be:

 

"Our biggest concern today is not man-made problems, it is climate change and water resources"  Excuse me???  Climate change and you overdrafting of water supplies ARE FUNDAMENTALLY a "man-made" problem.  We have all seen the consequence of such incorrect phrasing and articulation.  We are creating this mess.  I would hope we could be mature enough to own up to the problem and face it head on.

 

This story also does a good job of putting yet another face of the greatest victims of climate change; the poor who eek out a living in marginal environs.

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