AUSTRALIAN miner, Coppermoly has announced there is a potential to build up a quick start, low capex, open pit mining operation at its deposits in West New Britain Province.
The deposits include Mt Nakru and Simuku. The announcement was from one of the company board of director's Wanfu Huang in his presentation, titled "Deliverying economic copper ore resources in West New Britain," which was delivered to the Australian copper conference recently. Mr Huang is a doctorate holder with 20 years in mineral exploration in Australia and overseas.
The conference heard that both Mt Nakru and Simuku are two advanced copper (Cu) projects, both containing significant copper resources.
Simuku has 200 metric tons (MT) with 0.36 per cent grade copper while Nakru has 8.4mt and 0.61 per cent of Cu.
"Clearly defined drilling targets next to defined resources areas suggest great potential of multiplying current resources. Both advanced projects are close to existing infrastructures at Kimbe and easy to access. Simuku is a 25km drive while Nakru is 80km by road," Mr Huang said. He attributed the progress made by the company also to the great working relationship which the company has fostered and enjoyed with locals from the area. "We are building up a competent team with technical expertise in exploring the copper and gold mineralisation. This is the best time to invest in Coppermoly," Mr Huang said.


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Five years after California legalized marijuana in 2018, both state and industry players are still wrestling with test standardization. In response, California Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered the state to develop clear and specific guidelines to test cannabis products, reported dot.la.
The initiative comes under the new state law – Senate Bill 544, signed in October, which demanded that the Department of Cannabis Consl (DCC) create strict criteria and guidelines for testing a plethora of microbiological contaminants, pesticides, residual solvents, and cannabis compounds.
The standards will be established by 2023.
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Hanan al-Hroub is a shining beacon for Palestine
On March 16, 2016 March 16, 2016 By kamelhawwashIn children, Coloumns, Gaza, Israel, Media, Occupation, Palestine, Palestinian Authority, Refugees
The Middle East Eye published my latest article on 16/3/2016
Hanan al-Hroub was handed the second annual global teacher prize at a star-studded ceremony in Dubai on 13 March. Announcing the name of the prize winner, Pope Francis said "Part of education is to teach children how to play." He congratulated al-Hroub for winning the prize "due to the importance she gave to the role of play in a child's education".
Accepting her award, al-Hroub said: "I am proud to be a Palestinian female teacher standing on this stage. I accept this as a win for all teachers in general and Palestinian teachers in particular." The pride that she brought to a whole nation still fighting for its legitimate rights could be felt not only back in the occupied territories but in the Palestinian refugee camps and the rest of the diaspora.
The announcement was greeted with loud cheers and the waving of Palestinian flags in the hall but also with joyous celebrations among Palestinians the world over.
The last time this unity in celebration among Palestinians everywhere was seen on this scale was when the now famous Palestinians singer Mohammed Assaf won Arab Idol back in 2013. Assaf and al-Hroub share not only being winners but also originating from Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank respectively. Both grew up under Israel's military occupation and witnessed its violence first hand.
Assaf almost missed the opportunity to audition for the Arab Idol programme due to the siege on Gaza. Following his win, Assaf was named a goodwill ambassador for peace by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas also named him ambassador of culture and arts.
Al-Hroub's work which led to her global award demonstrates that despite the extremely difficult conditions under which Palestinians grow up, there is a determination to excel in their lines of work and to seek non-violent means to contribute to the development of their society. Al-Hroub's approach to dealing with children that have either experienced violence themselves or witnessed it first hand – as her own children had – is detailed in her book We Play to Learn.
It is reported that the trigger for her work was her children's experience of a shooting incident. The work led to her developing interventions to help children cope with their experiences and to say "no to violence". Al-Hroub believes in "developing trusting, respectful, honest and affectionate relationships with her students and emphasises the importance of literacy. She encourages her students to work together, pays close attention to individual needs and rewards positive behaviour."
Her biography confirms that her approach has "led to a decline in violent behaviour in schools where this is usually a frequent occurrence; she has inspired her colleagues to review the way they teach, their classroom management strategies and the sanctions they use."
The struggle for normality
It was rather timely that the announcement of al-Hroub's award was made as the strike by Palestinian teachers came to an end. Both brought joy to the beleaguered Palestinian people battling to live anything like a normal life free from Israeli violence, restrictions on movement, ever expanding settlements and settler violence.
Teachers and children wake up in the morning with the uncertainty and the insecurity of not knowing whether this is to be a normal day, whether they will be able to make it to school and in some cases whether their school will be there when they get to it.
The recent example of the demolition of the Abu-Nawwar Primary School in occupied Jerusalem is but one example of the trauma Israeli policies inflict on children. Other examples include the daily terror that children face from illegal settlers on the school walk in parts of Hebron, which necessitate accompaniment by international volunteers. The IDF has also been known to fire gas canisters in the direction of children on their way to school and into schools. A recent report accused Israeli soldiers tossing astun grenade into another school in the West Bank.
In Gaza, children have seen friends die next to them in school under fire from Israeli soldiers and during the major wars on the strip, including that in 2014, witnessed deaths of relatives, loved ones and friends. However, despite this and the regular "study by candle light" due to the lack of electricity and abject poverty as a result of the siege, the resilience of the children and their teachers is admirable.
They continue to pursue the highest levels of education both at home and, when permitted, abroad and continue to excel. In 2013 14-year-old Palestine refugee Areej El Madhoun, a student at UNRWA's school in Jabalia camp, received the first prize in in the Intelligent Mental-Arithmetic Competition, held in Malaysia every two years.
It was rather ironic that in the audience that saw al-Hroub receive her award in Dubai was the former Middle East Envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a man known for coining the phrase "Education, education, education" to indicate that this would be a key priority for his government. It is rather sad that his tenure as envoy saw the situation for Palestinians, especially children, worsen rather than improve.
The situation is particularly desperate in the areas designated "C" under the Oslo Accords which Israel administers and effectively bars any development of schools to cater for the children, including building any additional class rooms or facilities without planning permission which is almost always refused.
The 13th of March was about a Palestinian teacher excelling and being recognised for so doing on the international stage. The Palestinians see this as a major achievement for her and for them and all celebrated this in style. One can look forward to the day when Palestine is free, allowing the Palestinians to bring their talents to helping others and to tackling the world's challenges. They will undoubtedly win many more awards.
Kamel Hawwash is a British/Palestinian engineering professor based at the University of Birmingham and a long-standing campaigner for justice, especially for the Palestinian people. He is Vice Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and appears regularly in the media as commentator on Middle East issues. He runs a blog at www.kamelhawwash.com. He writes here in a personal capacity.
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Today we continue with Mesillas Yesharim and we are on paragraph 8 of Chapter One, "Man's Duty in the World." R. Luzzatto states that the world was created to serve mankind. Yet, he observes, the world itself stands in the balance. If a person is drawn towards this world, forgetting about the world to come, and distances himself from his creator, then he will be corrupted and will corrupt the world with him. The author then says that, nonetheless, if man can rule over himself and use this world to serve the Creator, he will be elevated and the world will be elevated with him.
This is described in some sciences as a feedback loop or a vicious circle. As an example, a parent who is angry does not give a food to a child. The child throws a tantrum. The parent holds on to the food, the child intensifies the tantrum. The parent withholds the food and so on. The prime motor is the behaviour of the parent. In a similar way, the world responds to what we do. This is analogous to the saying "the vibes you give are the vibes you get".
On paragraph 9 R. Luzzatto reminds us that the Holy One, blessed is he, warned Adam to be careful not to corrupt the world even if the world has been created to serve man. This further underlines that it is our responsibility – not someone else's – to keep the world free of corruption.
The tenth paragraph returns to the assertion that a person was not created for his position in this world but for his position in the world to come. His position in the world to come is, as we saw, the consequence of his behaviour in this world. As we have seen this does not mean passively accepting our role, but actively fighting against evil. This has also a multiplying effect. Bad behaviour, Heaven forbid, will corrupt the world and cause others to behave improperly, further corrupting the world and further distancing oneself and others from the Creator.
The effect of the example we set is extremely important. On the one side we should not be always on our guard and think that our neighbours will have a bad impression; on the other side, we should actually be on our guard and think that our neighbours will be badly influenced. One must think carefully when trying to strike a balance between those tightly corresponding and perhaps contradicting ideas. Trying to set a good example will, taken to an extreme, become haughtiness and arrogance; worrying about the neighbours can become suspicion and paranoia.


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A water footprint shows the extent of water use in relation to consumption by people. The water footprint of an individual, community, or business is defined as the total volume of fresh water used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual or community or produced by the business. Water use is measured in water volume consumed (evaporated) and/or polluted per unit of time. A water footprint can be calculated for any well-defined group of consumers (e.g., an individual, family, village, city, province, state, or nation) or producers (e.g., a public organization, private enterprise, or economic sector), for a single process (such as growing rice) or for any product or service.

Traditionally, water use has been approached from the production side, by quantifying the following three columns of water use: water withdrawals in the agricultural, industrial, and domestic sector. While this does provide valuable data, it is a limited way of looking at water use in a globalised world, in which products are not always consumed in their country of origin. International trade of agricultural and industrial products in effect creates a global flow of virtual water, or embodied water (akin to the concept of embodied energy).

In 2002, the water footprint concept was introduced in order to have a consumption-based indicator of water use, that could provide useful information in addition to the traditional production-sector-based indicators of water use. It is analogous to the ecological footprint concept introduced in the 1990s. The water footprint is a geographically explicit indicator, not only showing volumes of water use and pollution, but also the locations. Thus, it gives a grasp on how economic choices and processes influence the availability of adequate water resources and other ecological realities across the globe (and vice versa).

Definition and measures
There are many different aspects to water footprint and therefore different definitions and measures to describe them. Blue water footprint refers to groundwater or surface water usage, green water footprint refers to rainwater, and grey water footprint refers to the amount of water needed to dilute pollutants.

Blue water footprint
A blue water footprint refers to the volume of water that has been sourced from surface or groundwater resources (lakes, rivers, wetlands and aquifers) and has either evaporated (for example while irrigating crops), or been incorporated into a product or taken from one body of water and returned to another, or returned at a different time. Irrigated agriculture, industry and domestic water use can each have a blue water footprint.

Green water footprint
A green water footprint refers to  the amount of water from precipitation that, after having been stored in the root zone of the soil (green water), is either lost by evapotranspiration or incorporated by plants. It is particularly relevant for agricultural, horticultural and forestry products.

Grey water footprint
A grey water footprint refers to the volume of water that is required to dilute pollutants (industrial discharges, seepage from tailing ponds at mining operations, untreated municipal wastewater, or nonpoint source pollution such as agricultural runoff or urban runoff) to such an extent that the quality of the water meets agreed water quality standards. It is calculated as:

where L is the pollutant load (as mass flux), cmax the maximum allowable concentration and cnat the natural concentration of the pollutant in the receiving water body (both expressed in mass/volume).

Calculation for different actors
The water footprint of a process is expressed as volumetric flow rate of water. That of a product is the whole footprint (sum) of processes in its complete supply chain divided by the number of product units. For consumers, businesses and geographic area, water footprint is indicated as volume of water per time, in particular:

 That of a consumer is the sum of footprint of all consumed products.
 That of a community or a nation is the sum for all of its members resp. inhabitants.
 That of a business is the footprint of all produced goods.
 That of a geographically delineated area is the footprint of all processes undertaken in this area. The virtual change in water of an area is the net import of virtual water Vi, net, defined as the difference of the gross import Vi of virtual water from its gross export Ve. The water footprint of national consumption WFarea,nat results from this as the sum of the water footprint of national area and its virtual change in water.

History
The concept of a water footprint was coined in 2002, by Arjen Hoekstra, Professor in water management at the University of Twente, Netherlands, and co-founder and scientific director of the Water Footprint Network, whilst working at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, as a metric to measure the amount of water consumed and polluted to produce goods and services along their full supply chain.  Water footprint is one of a family of ecological footprint indicators, which also includes carbon footprint and land footprint. The water footprint concept is further related to the idea of virtual water trade introduced in the early 1990s by Professor John Allan (2008 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate). The most elaborate publications on how to estimate water footprints are a 2004 report on the Water footprint of nations from UNESCO-IHE, the 2008 book Globalization of Water, and the 2011 manual The water footprint assessment manual: Setting the global standard.  Cooperation between global leading institutions in the field has led to the establishment of the Water Footprint Network in 2008.

Water Footprint Network (WFN)

The Water Footprint Network is an international learning community (a non-profit foundation under Dutch law) which serves as a platform for sharing knowledge, tools and innovations among governments, businesses and communities concerned about growing water scarcity and increasing water pollution levels, and their impacts on people and nature. The network consists of around 100 partners from all sectors – producers, investors, suppliers and regulators – as well as non-governmental organisations and academics. It describes its mission as follows:  To provide science-based, practical solutions and strategic insights that empower companies, governments, individuals and small-scale producers to transform the way we use and share fresh water within earth's limits.

International standard
In February 2011, the Water Footprint Network, in a global collaborative effort of environmental organizations, companies, research institutions and the UN, launched the Global Water Footprint Standard. In July 2014, the International Organization for Standardization issued ISO 14046:2014, Environmental management—Water footprint—Principles, requirements and guidelines, to provide practical guidance to practitioners from various backgrounds, such as large companies, public authorities, non-governmental organizations, academic and research groups as well as small and medium enterprises, for carrying out a water footprint assessment. The ISO standard is based on life-cycle assessment (LCA) principles and can be applied for different sorts of assessment of products and companies.

Life-cycle assessment of water use
Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is a systematic, phased approach to assessing the environmental aspects and potential impacts that are associated with a product, process or service.  "Life cycle" refers to the major activities connected with the product's life-span, from its manufacture, use, and maintenance, to its final disposal, and also including the acquisition of raw material required to manufacture the product.  Thus a method for assessing the environmental impacts of freshwater consumption was developed.  It specifically looks at the damage to three areas of protection: human health, ecosystem quality, and resources.  The consideration of water consumption is crucial where water-intensive products (for example agricultural goods) are concerned that need to therefore undergo a life-cycle assessment.  In addition, regional assessments are equally as necessary as the impact of water use depends on its location.  In short, LCA is important as it identifies the impact of water use in certain products, consumers, companies, nations, etc. which can help reduce the amount of water used.

Water availability
Globally, about 4 percent of precipitation falling on land each year (about ), is used by rain-fed agriculture and about half is subject to evaporation and transpiration in forests and other natural or quasi-natural landscapes.  The remainder, which goes to groundwater replenishment and surface runoff, is sometimes called "total actual renewable freshwater resources".  Its magnitude was in 2012 estimated at /year.  It represents water that can be used either in-stream or after withdrawal from surface and groundwater sources.  Of this remainder, about  were withdrawn in 2007, of which , or 69 percent, were used by agriculture, and , or 19 percent, by other industry.  Most agricultural use of withdrawn water is for irrigation, which uses about 5.1 percent of total actual renewable freshwater resources.  World water use has been growing rapidly in the last hundred years.

Water footprint of products (agricultural sector)
The water footprint of a product is the total volume of freshwater used to produce the product, summed over the various steps of the production chain. The water footprint of a product refers not only to the total volume of water used; it also refers to where and when the water is used. The Water Footprint Network maintains a global database on the water footprint of products: WaterStat. Nearly over 70% of the water supply worldwide is used in the agricultural sector.

The water footprints involved in various diets vary greatly, and much of the variation tends to be associated with levels of meat consumption. The following table gives examples of estimated global average water footprints of popular agricultural products.

(For more product water footprints: see the Product Gallery of the Water Footprint Network)

Water footprint of companies (industrial sector)
The water footprint of a business, the 'corporate water footprint', is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used directly or indirectly to run and support a business. It is the total volume of water use to be associated with the use of the business outputs. The water footprint of a business consists of water used for producing/manufacturing or for supporting activities and the indirect water use in the producer's supply chain.

The Carbon Trust argue that a more robust approach is for businesses to go beyond simple volumetric measurement to assess the full range of water impact from all sites.  Its work with leading global pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) analysed four key categories: water availability, water quality, health impacts, and licence to operate (including reputational and regulatory risks) in order to enable GSK to quantitatively measure, and credibly reduce, its year-on-year water impact.

The Coca-Cola Company operates over a thousand manufacturing plants in about 200 countries. Making its drink uses a lot of water. Critics say its water footprint has been large. Coca-Cola has started to look at its water sustainability.  It has now set out goals to reduce its water footprint such as treating the water it uses so it goes back into the environment in a clean state. Another goal is to find sustainable sources for the raw materials it uses in its drinks, such as sugarcane, oranges, and corn. By making its water footprint better, the company can reduce costs, improve the environment, and benefit the communities in which it operates.

Water footprint of individual consumers (domestic sector)
The water footprint of an individual refers to the sum of their direct and indirect freshwater use. The direct water use is the water used at home, while the indirect water use relates to the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed.

The average global water footprint of an individual is 1,385 m3 per year. Residents of some example nations have water footprints as shown in the table:

Water footprint of nations

The water footprint of a nation is the amount of water used to produce the goods and services consumed by the inhabitants of that nation. Analysis of the water footprint of nations illustrates the global dimension of water consumption and pollution, by showing that several countries rely heavily on foreign water resources and that (consumption patterns in) many countries significantly and in various ways impact how, and how much, water is being consumed and polluted elsewhere on Earth. International water dependencies are substantial and are likely to increase with continued global trade liberalisation. The largest share (76%) of the virtual water flows between countries is related to international trade in crops and derived crop products. Trade in animal products and industrial products contributed 12% each to the global virtual water flows. The four major direct factors determining the water footprint of a country are: volume of consumption (related to the gross national income); consumption pattern (e.g. high versus low meat consumption); climate (growth conditions); and agricultural practice (water use efficiency).

Production or consumption
The assessment of total water use in connection to consumption can be approached from both ends of the supply chain. The water footprint of production estimates how much water from local sources is used or polluted in order to provide the goods and services produced in that country. The water footprint of consumption of a country looks at the amount of water used or polluted (locally, or in the case of imported goods, in other countries) in connection with all the goods and services that are consumed by the inhabitants of that country. The water footprint of production and that of consumption, can also be estimated for any administrative unit such as a city, province, river basin or the entire world.

Absolute or per capita
The absolute water footprint is the total sum of water footprints of all people. A country's per capita water footprint (that nation's water footprint divided by its number of inhabitants) can be used to compare its water footprint with those of other nations.

The global water footprint in the period 1996–2005 was 9.087 Gm3/yr (Billion Cubic Metres per year, or 9.087.000.000.000.000 liters/year), of which 74% was and green, 11% blue, 15% grey. This is an average amount per capita of 1.385 Gm3/yr., or 3.800 liters per person per day. On average 92% of this is embedded in agricultural products consumed, 4.4% in industrial products consumed, and 3.6% is domestic water use. The global water footprint related to producing goods for export is 1.762 Gm3/y.

In absolute terms, India is the country with the largest water footprint in the world, a total of 987 Gm3/yr. In relative terms (i.e. taking population size into account), the people of the USA have the largest water footprint, with 2480 m3/yr per capita, followed by the people in south European countries such as Greece, Italy and Spain (2300–2400 m3/yr per capita). High water footprints can also be found in Malaysia and Thailand. In contrast, the Chinese people have a relatively low per capita water footprint with an average of 700 m3/yr. (These numbers are also from the period 1996-2005.)

Internal or external

The internal water footprint is the amount of water used from domestic water resources; the external water footprint is the amount of water used in other countries to produce goods and services imported and consumed by the inhabitants of the country. When assessing the water footprint of a nation, it is crucial to take into account the international flows of virtual water (also called embodied water, i.e. the water used or polluted in connection to all agricultural and industrial commodities) leaving and entering the country. When taking the use of domestic water resources as a starting point for calculating a nation's water footprint, one should subtract the virtual water flows that leave the country and add the virtual water flows that enter the country.

The external part of a nation's water footprint varies strongly from country to country. Some African nations, such as Sudan, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Malawi and Chad have hardly any external water footprint, simply because they have little import. Some European countries on the other hand—e.g. Italy, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands—have external water footprints that constitute 50–80% of their total water footprint. The agricultural products that on average contribute most to the external water footprints of nations are: bovine meat, soybean, wheat, cocoa, rice, cotton and maize.

The top 10 gross virtual water exporting nations, which together account for more than half of the global virtual water export, are the United States (314 Gm3/year), China (143 Gm3/year), India (125 Gm3/year), Brazil (112 Gm3/year), Argentina (98 Gm3/year), Canada (91 Gm3/year), Australia (89 Gm3/year), Indonesia (72 Gm3/year), France (65 Gm3/year), and Germany (64 Gm3/year).

The top 10 gross virtual water importing nations are the United States (234 Gm3/year), Japan (127 Gm3/year), Germany (125 Gm3/year), China (121 Gm3/year), Italy (101 Gm3/year), Mexico (92 Gm3/year), France (78 Gm3/year), the United Kingdom (77 Gm3/year), and The Netherlands (71 Gm3/year).

Water use in continents

Europe

Each EU citizen consumes 4,815 litres of water per day on average; 44% is used in power production primarily to cool thermal plants or nuclear power plants. Energy production annual water consumption in the EU 27 in 2011 was, in billion m3: for gas 0.53, coal 1.54 and nuclear 2.44. Wind energy avoided the use of 387 million cubic metres (mn m3) of water in 2012, avoiding a cost of €743 million.

Asia
In south India the state Tamil Nadu is one of the main agricultural producers in India and it relies largely in groundwater for irrigation. In ten years, from 2002 to 2012, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment calculated that the groundwater reduced in 1.4 m yr−1, which "is nearly 8% more than the annual recharge rate."

Environmental water use
Although agriculture's water use includes provision of important terrestrial environmental values (as discussed in the "Water footprint of products" section above), and much "green water" is used in maintaining forests and wild lands, there is also direct environmental use (e.g. of surface water) that may be allocated by governments. For example, in California, where water use issues are sometimes severe because of drought, about 48 percent of "dedicated water use" in an average water year is for the environment (somewhat more than for agriculture). Such environmental water use is for keeping streams flowing, maintaining aquatic and riparian habitats, keeping wetlands wet, etc.

Criticism

Insufficient consideration of consequences of proposed water saving policies to farm households
According to Dennis Wichelns of the International Water Management Institute: "Although one goal of virtual water analysis is to describe opportunities for improving water security, there is almost no mention of the potential impacts of the prescriptions arising from that analysis on farm households in industrialized or developing countries. It is essential to consider more carefully the inherent flaws in the virtual water and water footprint perspectives, particularly when seeking guidance regarding policy decisions."

Regional water scarcity should be taken into account when interpreting water footprint
The application and interpretation of water footprints may sometimes be used to promote industrial activities that lead to facile criticism of certain products. For example, the 140 litres required for coffee production for one cup might be of no harm to water resources if its cultivation occurs mainly in humid areas, but could be damaging in more arid regions. Other factors such as hydrology, climate, geology, topography, population and demographics should also be taken into account. Nevertheless, high water footprint calculations do suggest that environmental concern may be appropriate.

Many of the criticisms, including the above ones, compare the description of the water footprint of a water system to generated impacts, which is about its performance. Such a comparison between descriptive and performance factors and indicators is basically flawed.

The use of the term footprint can also confuse people familiar with the notion of a carbon footprint, because the water footprint concept includes sums of water quantities without necessarily evaluating related impacts. This is in contrast to the carbon footprint, where carbon emissions are not simply summarized but normalized by CO2 emissions, which are globally identical, to account for the environmental harm. The difference is due to the somewhat more complex nature of water; while involved in the global hydrological cycle, it is expressed in conditions both local and regional through various forms like river basins, watersheds, on down to groundwater (as part of larger aquifer systems). Furthermore, looking at the definition of the footprint itself, and comparing ecological footprint, carbon footprint and water footprint, we realize that the three terms are indeed legitimate.

Sustainable water use
Sustainable water use involves the rigorous assessment of all source of clean water to establish the current and future rates of use, the impacts of that use both downstream and in the wider area where the water may be used and the impact of contaminated water streams on the environment and economic well being of the area. It also involves the implementation of social policies such as water pricing in order to manage water demand. In some localities, water may also have spiritual relevance and the use of such water may need to take account of such interests. For example, the Maori believe that water is the source and foundation of all life and have many spiritual associations with water and places associated with water.  On a national and global scale, water sustainability requires strategic and long term planning to ensure appropriate sources of clean water are identified and the environmental and economic impact of such choices are understood and accepted. The re-use and reclamation of water is also part of sustainability including downstream impacts on both surface waters and ground waters.

Sustainability assessment
Water footprint accounting has advanced substantially in recent years, however, water footprint analysis also needs sustainability assessment as its last phase. One of the developments is to employ sustainable efficiency and equity ("Sefficiency in Sequity"), which present a comprehensive approach to assessing the sustainable use of water.

Sectoral distributions of withdrawn water use
Several nations estimate sectoral distribution of use of water withdrawn from surface and groundwater sources. For example, in Canada, in 2005, 42 billion m3 of withdrawn water were used, of which about 38 billion m3 were freshwater. Distribution of this use among sectors was: thermoelectric power generation 66.2%, manufacturing 13.6%, residential 9.0%, agriculture 4.7%, commercial and institutional 2.7%, water treatment and distribution systems 2.3%, mining 1.1%, and oil and gas extraction 0.5%.  The 38 billion m3 of freshwater withdrawn in that year can be compared with the nation's annual freshwater yield (estimated as streamflow) of 3,472 billion m3.  Sectoral distribution is different in many respects in the US, where agriculture accounts for about 39% of fresh water withdrawals, thermoelectric power generation 38%, industrial 4%, residential 1%, and mining (including oil and gas) 1%.

Within the agricultural sector, withdrawn water use is for irrigation and for livestock.  Whereas all irrigation in the US (including loss in conveyance of irrigation water) is estimated to account for about 38 percent of US withdrawn freshwater use, the irrigation water used for production of livestock feed and forage has been estimated to account for about 9 percent, and other withdrawn freshwater use for the livestock sector (for drinking, washdown of facilities, etc.) is estimated at about 0.7 percent.  Because agriculture is a major user of withdrawn water, changes in the magnitude and efficiency of its water use are important.  In the US, from 1980 (when agriculture's withdrawn water use peaked) to 2010, there was a 23 percent reduction in agriculture's use of withdrawn water, while US agricultural output increased by 49 percent over that period.

In the US, irrigation water application data are collected in the quinquennial Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey, conducted as part of the Census of Agriculture.  Such data indicate great differences in irrigation water use within various agricultural sectors.  For example, about 14 percent of corn-for-grain land and 11 percent of soybean land in the US are irrigated, compared with 66 percent of vegetable land, 79 percent of orchard land and 97 percent of rice land.

See also

References

External links
 Water Footprint Network
 Personal Water Footprint Calculator

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Environmental terminology
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Economic globalization
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Thread: Trump Celebrates Replacement Border Fence as 'Start of Our Southern Border WALL'
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Trump Celebrates Replacement Border Fence as 'Start of Our Southern Border WALL'
John Binder
President Trump celebrated what he called the "start of our Southern Border WALL" by sharing photos of a bollard fencing project in Calexico, California that has been ongoing since February.
In a tweet, Trump said he had a "great briefing" on Tuesday on the current construction project that is taking place in southern California.
Great briefing this afternoon on the start of our Southern Border WALL! pic.twitter.com/pmCNoxxlkH
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2018
The project in Calexico, though, was funded in Fiscal Year 2017 and does not include any of the prototype border walls that Trump toured this month.
Instead, the project consists of 30-food high bollard style fencing on a 2.2.5-mile section that spans from Calexico's West Port of Entry to beyond the Gran Plaza Outlets. The project, as mentioned by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), also includes 2.25 miles worth of new roads along the southern border.
DHS officials have previously said that the Calexico replacement fencing is one of Border Patrol's "highest priority projects" because the fencing being replaced is from the 1990s and was made up of recycled metal scraps.
"Although the existing wall has proven effective at deterring unlawful cross-border activity, smuggling organizations damaged and breached this outdated version of a border wall several hundred times during the last two years, resulting in costly repairs," according to news released at the time when construction began last month on the project.
Trump's celebration of the replacement fencing project comes after he signed a spending bill last week that did not include a single provision from his 70-point list of pro-American immigration reforms and went even further by banning him from building a new wall along the southern border using the prototype walls that he toured last month, as Breitbart Newsreported.
The replacement fencing is not the depiction of a "great" border wall that Trump has previously promised his supporters.
For example, in the 2016 presidential election, when giving his historic immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, Trump announced:
On day one, we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall. We will use the best technology including above and below ground sensors — that's the tunnels — remember that, above and below. Above and below ground sensors, towers, areal surveillance, and manpower to supplement the wall, find and dislocate tunnels, and keep out criminal cartels… [Emphasis added]
As Breitbart News reported, apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border have ticked back up to former President Obama-era levels, with a total of 26,666 illegal aliens being apprehended at the border last month alone.
Trump's populist immigration agenda — wherein he has called on the Republican-controlled Congress to reduce overall immigration levels to raise the wages of American workers — has largely fallen on deaf ears with the GOP leadership.
Despite immigration being the most important issue to Republican voters in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections, Republican lawmakers have refused to take up the issue, as Trump has. Instead, the Republican leadership is planning to tout their tax reform legislation as their biggest achievement, though half of swing voters say the tax cuts will have "no impact" on their vote in the midterms.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...n-border-wall/
Last edited by GeorgiaPeach; 03-28-2018 at 10:26 PM.
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
According to the article that replacement fencing was funded in 2017. That's not the border wall you promised us, nor is it a down payment, Mr. President. You may be be able to fool some of the people some of the time, but you'll never fool all of the people all of the time with fuzzy talk! We know what you promised and we know what was in the spending bill you recently signed .... or should I say we know what wasn't in it!
Mr. President, you should have vetoed the Ryan/McConnell and Schumer/Pelosi spending plan and fought harder for what you promised the American people on border security and immigration enforcement. However, instead of going with your own gut, you chose to take the advice of John Kelly. IMO, you've lost some credibility with many of your voters who consider illegal immigration and border security their #1 priority. It's time to flight like hell to regain that lost confidence!
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The picture that Breitbart has posted is fake. It's not the picture Trump Tweeted today. The actual pictures are in the Trump Twitter account below. The new bollard fencing is much higher, much taller. Breitbart is no longer Breitbart. Sad!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?...Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Maybe GeorgiaPeach or Jean can figure out a way to post the actual pictures. I've never been able to get pictures or images to paste, just videos, don't know why.
It wasn't Kelly, it was Mattis. Trump had lunch with Mattis right before he walked out and announced he was signing the bill and said he was doing so because of the military.
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Save America, Deport Congress! - Judy
Originally Posted by Judy
I heard on Fox and Friends it was Kelly. However, I also read in an MSN article it was Mattis and a few others. Not a big deal either way. Like I said earlier, he should have went with his own gut and vetoed it!
How do you know the pictures on Trump's twitter are pictures of the actual fence being built? Whatever, it's still not the border "wall" he promised us. Give a welder the tools and 20 minutes and he can probably cut right through that type of fencing. Doesn't look any different than some of the fencing I've seen in the past.
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From GeorgiaPeach's article:
Last edited by Judy; 03-29-2018 at 11:29 AM.
Trump is really getting desperate now to lay claim to fence replacement as his grand "Border Wall" that Mexico was going to pay for. But still, a bunch of Trump psychophants will still cling to his words accepting them as truth because they don't want to face the fact Trump screwed us on many important issues such as spending, immigration, DACA, and the wall.
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Donald Trump: 'A Real Wall, Not a Little Wall' Needed on Southern Border
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Trump's border wall will look more like a fence
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Trump wants a wall. Border experts want a fence
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Die Rotweinsorte Alicante Ganzin ist eine Neuzüchtung zwischen Aramon rupestris – Ganzin Nr. 4 und Alicante Bouschet. Die Kreuzung der Hybridrebe erfolgte im Jahr 1886 durch den Franzosen Victor Ganzin. Aramon rupestris – Ganzin Nr. 4 ist ihrerseits eine Kreuzung zwischen der Rebsorte Aramon und der Wildrebe Vitis rupestris.

Die wuchsschwache und ertragsarme Sorte hat Beeren mit tiefrotem Fruchtfleisch. Die Sorte ist nicht resistent gegen die Reblaus. Der Wein ist neutral im Geschmack, verfügt jedoch über 46-mal mehr Farbe als die Sorte Aramon, zählt also zur Familie der Färbertrauben! Deshalb wurde sie als Partner für die Züchtung weiterer Färbertrauben (Teinturier) – Sorten verwendet, zum Beispiel bei den kalifornischen (→ Weinbau in Kalifornien) Sorten Royalty und Rubired, die beide von Harold Olmo bearbeitet wurden. Der Züchter Albert Seibel verwendete sie ebenfalls für die Seibel-Reben Seibel 4646, Seibel 5437 und Seibel 6339.

Es sind keine Synonyme bekannt.

Abstammung: Aramon rupestris – Ganzin Nr. 4 (Aramon × Vitis rupestris) × Alicante Bouschet.

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 Die Triebspitze ist offen. Sie ist spinnwebig behaart und hellgrün gefärbt. Die Jungblätter sind ebenfalls spinnwebig behaart und kupferfarben gefärbt (Anthocyan).
 Die mittelgroßen Blätter sind fünflappig und tief gebuchtet (siehe auch den Artikel Blattform). Die Stielbucht ist lyren-förmig offen. Das Blatt ist spitz gesägt. Die Zähne sind im Vergleich der Rebsorten sehr eng gesetzt. Im Herbst verfärbt sich das Laub rot.
 Die walzenförmige Traube ist sehr lang. Die ovalen Beeren sind von schwarzblauer Farbe.

Alicante Ganzin ist sehr empfindlich gegen die Pilzkrankheiten Echter Mehltau und Falscher Mehltau. Sie besitzt zwittrige Blüten und ist somit selbstfruchtend. Beim Weinbau wird der ökonomische Nachteil vermieden, keinen Ertrag liefernde, männliche Pflanzen anbauen zu müssen. Aufgrund der Krankheitsanfälligkeit spielt die Sorte im Weinbau jedoch keine Rolle.

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The Emergency Medical Services for Children Day (EMSC Day) is celebrated on Wednesday of The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week. This year we celebrate EMSC Day on 18th of May. The holiday is hosted by The EMSC Natural Resource Center and aims to raise awareness about the specialized medical services for children. The "Benny the Bearamedic" logo is the symbol of the holiday and could be seen on T-shirts, posters and printed materials of the activists. In this essay, we will discuss the four main groups that are targeted by the organizers of the holiday.
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My name is very Nigerian, Yoruba if we're being specific. Each of my three names (first name + two middle names) is distinctly Yoruba and a fellow Yoruba person cannot hear them without recognizing this. I have noticed that people are often surprised that my parents who gave birth and raised me and my siblings in North America chose only Yoruba names for us but I am glad they did. I have always liked my name.
My mom's reasoning was that no matter where we go, our names would tell fellow Nigerians where we're from before they even talk to us, and immediately tell strangers that although we may sound North American or act North American, we're not. Somewhere along the line our origins are different.
However, like most of you who live abroad know, getting people to pronounce your name right is a bit like trying to get Nigerians at a gathering to be quiet while speeches are being made—impossible!
Age 6: we arrive in Canada after living in Naija for three years. I am very gung-ho about all things Nigerian and correct anyone and everyone who says my name incorrectly. This feels like my full time job and at the age of six I shouldn't have been in the workforce!
After a year at the most, I give up on this. By the age of 11 I realize that even my siblings don't say my name absolutely "properly" (they have this cute mix of Naija and North American way of saying it). I begin introducing myself by the North Americanized version of name. I occasionally become embarrassed when I catch myself mispronouncing my name to Nigerians I am just meeting. After a while it feels 'wrong' to say my name correctly.
In my mid-20s, I record my voicemail welcome message and on it say my name correctly. Friends who call and leave messages suddenly pronounce my name correctly when leaving a message, but continue to call me by the mispronounced name when we meet. I am not bothered by this and I change my voicemail message to omit my name entirely after short while because that is the phase I was in (constantly changing my voicemail welcome messages).
Lately, I notice that when I am telling stories and I say that someone said "GNG, blah blah blah" I don't say my name correctly. Something strikes me as wrong about that.
Today, I resolve to introduce myself by the correct pronunciation of my name, and even if people can't pronounce it right, at least make sure they know the right away to say it. I prepared for this by telling some coworkers the right way to say my name last week. Only one comes close to saying it almost correctly, and she remembers it the next time we meet.
How about you? Have you had any name-related issues?
I recently had to change my name; dropping what for over two and a half decades had been my first name and using a not too popular name as my first name; the media loved it. When I introduce myself with my new first name and people find it difficult to pronounce i quickly revert to the former name for their convenience. Like you, I have resolved that people call me what I want to be called even if it twists their tongue and even if they cant pronounce it properly at first, they would soon get the hang of it.
I will start by ensuring my sweetums starts calling me my new first today.
When in rome! My brother in law blesse his heart is still your six year old self, he completely exasperates people for not just going with the flow but making them say his ENTIRE name and the RIGHT WAY. It's quite annoying how self righteous he is about it considering the fact that he has a HEAVY Nigerian accent and cannot pronounce American names correctly either. He claims it's because he's Nigerian with an accent while the Americans don't have an accent hence they should know how to pronounce his name.
I could give a ratz tail on how people pronounce my name, I really don't care. I had to shorten my real name to Abbie, because for one I'm an introvert and did not enjoy prolonging conversations by a) making people pronounce my name correctly, b) answering questions about what it means and c) giving people a tutorial about the continent of Africa, the country of Nigeria and the "tribe" of the Yorubas. uh! It's so tiring!! And I don't feel it makes me less of an Abiola or that I'm not embracing my culture because of it. My priorities are just arranged better than to hassle over a mispronounced name.
My son has 6 syllabi in his name and we just call him the short version for the same reason.
For job hunting purposes, I'd rather his potential employer get to meet him first before making assumptions about him based on his foreign name. It's sad but there are people out there like that I and feel so bad for the Shanekwas and Shenanays of this world.
Ok what is your name? Lol!
I love my nigerian name. It's difficult for americans to pronounce but i refuse to go by my easy 3 letter english name just because i prefer my nigerian name. However, if i'm not in the mood to repeat my name 10 times, i just tell them the easy name. I have had to change the pronunciation of my name to suit the "american tongue". Some of them actually get it right the first time (well, the american version of right). Still, whenever i meet a Nigerian for the first time and they say my name perfectly, i'm excited. My father heard me say my americanized pronunciation of my name to some dude and he was cracking up seriously. He has actually told us to drop our nigerian names for work and stuff cos he says people are discriminated by their names. But i refused. I love my name to death. It means "child of wealth". That's why i'm rich biatch!
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I have never had any name issues-with my 1st name at least- because my parents gave me an english name. But reading this really helped me see things from a different perspective, cuz it use to urk me when I would hear my 9ja friends pronounce their names in the 'yankified/janded' way. I always thought it's one thing if your name is mispronounced, but another if you mispronounce it yourself. Reading this softened me up though. I see where your coming from. Im not yoruba but im in love with yoruba names for real. at least one of my kids will have a yoruba name.
i love this sory, especially the beginning. reminds of the times when tribal marks where used by certain tribes for identity. and i remember my father once said its extremely important to identify with ur roots and one of the eaiset ways to do that is ur name. while at times, it might put one in trouble, there r lots of times it saves.
and for pronouncing names, u got me laughing at ur determination and resignation. it happens. just give up on trying to correct people. my simple name is pronounce in so many different ways. i have noticed that most Yoruba people pronounce it the same way, just like most igbos pronounce it the same way. i dont bother anymore. i only get mad when my surname is messed with. and i wonder why. i just tell people who struggle with uzezi to just call me UZ or zezi or zi. but i love the full name anyday.
The beautiful thing about Yoruba names is that you can get several shorts out of them. Remove the prefix (of which many mean same thing), suffix…..
While they may not mis-pronounce my name, i have my name written with as many as 3 different prefixes, 2 of which mean same thing. So, how do i correct 'em……i write my name without the prefix….Rethots, simple. It gives an interesting initials too.
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We were there for the art but the people watching was equally as hot.
Scream's the type of gallery that pulls you in with the temptation of huge, seismographic, in your face, contemporary works that thrill in their triptastic visionary outlook and we weren't disappointed. But, being August, the legendary rammed nature of the gallery on preview nights had diminished and it was actually (*shocked face*) possible to view the art. Of course, it was still humid and hot…something to do with the low ceilings apparently, but the hip West London meets Mayfair throng spewed onto the street like Bohemian peacocks and magpies, which was kind of relevant as they tended to mirror Derek Santini's dark, masterful and jaw dropping 3D work, The Magpie, spotlighted in the window.
Santini's lenticular process involves photographing a sequence of still images, using live models, which are layered and printed using a special technique under a ribbed plastic sheet acting as a lens. This then results in a hologram-like effect when the viewer passes – this illusion of depth is a trick on the eye that winks suggestively and holds your gaze.
The intensity of colour and shape used in Malgosia Stepnik's work reflects the inner workings of the human psyche and appear, for all sakes, like an art form of the famous Rorschach test where subjects interpretations of inkblots are used to define personality characteristics and emotional functioning. If Ms Stepnik is is intending to confront our psychological well-being as well as to entertain, then she's hit a rich subject matter. Her psychadelic works (or should that read psychodelic?) have names such as Intensity and Catharsis, showing her Psychology studies background. From a similar background myself, I'd be more impressed by a Rogerian or Jungian interpretation but that's a whole other matter.
More straightforward and glitzy were Russell Young's American counter culture works that feature actress Sharon Tate (in 'Babydoll' pictured above) before her premature demise at the hands of cult leader, Charles Manson and a star on full beam, Marilyn Monroe, entertaining the troops in Korea. These works are touched by Hollywood fairie dust and act as huge signifiers of the cult of fame and celebrity.
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