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In this year’s General Election, Fairfax County voters are asked to elect three directors to sit on the Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District Board. The candidates’ campaigns ...
They get down to the nitty gritty — at least they’re supposed to. That’s why they’re called soil and water conservation districts. They’re not supposed to sound exciting. They’re ...
In an effort to improve the environment and life for farmers, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment ... like terracing. The water and soil keep moving ...
Mumbai: In a major step to enhance the efficiency of water conservation efforts across Maharashtra, Soil and Water Conservation Minister Mr. Sanjay Rathod has directed the preparation of a revised ...
Behold an elected office that sounds mundane, saturated, and certainly down to earth: supervisor of a local soil and water conservation district. People pursue it for a reason. “There are two ...
Utah water managers say they're concerned about new water trends that have emerged as the region's irrigation season has ...
Dry soil conditions before the snowpack ... accounts with no overdraft protection. That's why water managers across the state have turned to conservation. Water consumption cuts were reported ...
In collaboration with the Bitterroot Conservation District, Teller Wildlife Refuge in Corvallis will soon start renting out ...
Seems like a lot of folks in California are doing the same: We’re using a lot more water each month than we did at our most conservation ... around plants to keep soil moisture longer; and ...
If the lawmakers hoped to embolden local officials to manage the troves of water under the soil, they failed. There are areas with groundwater that don’t have conservation districts. Each ...
Each year, 11 million tonnes of plastic waste contaminate water ecosystems, while microplastics from sewage and landfills accumulate in soil ... These messages aim to inspire awareness and ...
For the Indigenous Gayo, Alas, Kluet, Aneuk Jamee, and Karo peoples, Leuser is not merely a forest—it is sacred ancestral land. Their stewardship has kept the ecosystem intact for centuries. But in ...