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LONDON and NEW YORK – March 18, 2013 – Ahead of the United Nation’s World Water Day on March 22, Impax Asset Management (“Impax”), the global equity specialist dedicated to investing in resource optimization and the increasing demand for global resources, is available to discuss macro themes that have created compelling investment opportunities in the water space. According to a UN estimate, 47 percent of the world's population will live in areas of high water stress by 2030. The drivers behind this stre...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Financing
LAKEWOOD, Calif., May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD), which provides groundwater for more than 10% of the state's population, has decided NOT to increase its groundwater pumping rates for the next fiscal year. Avoiding a water rate increase is a sharp contrast to the 5% to 28% increases in other water rates in the Los Angeles region. "WRD is very proud of the transparent open process we followed to approve our budget, and that hard work w...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Financing
LAKEWOOD, Calif., April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- -- The Finance Committee of the Water Replenishment District of Southern California today decided to recommend the Board of Directors not increase the District's replenishment assessment* (RA) for the fiscal year 2012-2013. At its May 4, 2012 meeting, the Board of Directors will hold its 10th and final budget hearing and workshop, where it will make its final decision on the 2012-2013 replenishment assessment. The zero increase scenario has bee...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Financing
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Dec. 21, 2011 – Ducks and other wetland-dependent wildlife will benefit from last week's congressional approval of a $35.5 million budget for the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) program for FY 2012. While significantly less than what the administration recommended months ago, this number is much improved from an initial $20 million figure proposed by the U.S. House of Representatives in the spring, largely through the work of Ducks Unlimited , its supporters...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Financing
By Don Talend
To consumers, it seems that everything—the depressed value of their homes notwithstanding—is getting more and more expensive these days. The higher cost of gasoline has hit home on basically a permanent basis over the past couple of years due to increased global demand. With states and many municipalities running fiscal deficits, many consumers have seen sales, income, and property taxes go up where they live. Over the long term, the era of cheap food appears to be over, thanks to increased global deman...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Financing, Legislation, Public Outreach
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From: Water Efficiency Topics: Financing, Infrastructure,
By Dan Rafter
The numbers tell the story: Michigan’s unemployment rate soared to 12.6% in March, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. No other state has a higher rate. The state’s auto industry, its economic engine for so long, is teetering. RealtyTrac, an online collector of foreclosure data, says that Michigan had the sixth-highest number of housing foreclosures in the country during the first quarter of the month. And to make matters even worse, the state’s fiscal year 2009 budget deficit is expected to...... continue reading
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