Bancroft's creation was planted decades before either succulents or native low-water plants would become popular.
Schoeffler owns a Cadillac dealership, but is worried about pollution, and about dredging and erosion that's turned native marsh into open water.
This initiative generated multiple benefits: protecting native biodiversity, increasing local water supply, and enabling the company to use the cleared vegetation as biomass fuel.
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With a tenth of people in the United Kingdom living in one-third of its land mass, it is obviously going to cost more to deliver services such as health, water and sewerage in my native Eilean Siar (Western Isles) than it is in urban Chelsea.
As part of that experience, she assisted at a clinic on a nearby Native American reservation, where she learned about water fluoridation issues on tribal land and helped to provide dental care to an at risk population.
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Entrepreneurs like Pedro Tomas Delgado Ortiz, whose company Aquaphytex is pioneering the use of native plants to clean and treat wastewater and drinking water in Africa, have to be in business already, they have to have a viable product, and they have to have staff.
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Walking by a fast-moving creek on the property, the 60-year-old Duluth native pointed out where the polar bear, Berlin, sought to escape rising water by moving to higher ground outside his cage.
As the Delhi (India) native thanked delegates for selecting her as the winner of the International Year of Water Cooperation slogan contest and adopting her message as the official 2013 slogan, she said it was important for humanity to understand the deeper meaning behind her words, and work towards resolving transboundary issues involving water sharing.
It is a solid resort course, with ample fairways and little in the way of penal hazards, with water seriously in play on just one hole, but the tall thick native grasses are much tougher than the wispy rough of the British Isles, and while the greens are not crazily undulated, they have plenty of tricky pin positions.
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Native tribes will not have to relocate, but could face a change of lifestyle once water levels shrink.
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Lying in the shadow of the active volcano Mt Tarawera, Rotorua Lakes is an unrivalled natural landscape where water is clean enough to drink, sweet-smelling air comes alive with native birdsong and fern-filled forests are as bright as a bottle of absinthe.
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