Articles for Delta State

Amid above-average snowpack, Newsom urges focus on state water resilience and adaptation
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Amid above-average snowpack, Newsom urges focus on state water resilience and adaptation

LA Times  

With California snowpack and reservoirs at above-average levels following two wet winters, Gov. “The water system in California was designed for a world that no longer exists.” The governor presented a new water plan that lays out priorities for changing how the state captures, stores and moves water, including efforts to replenish groundwater, recycle wastewater and restore the natural ecosystems …

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YSRC government to use Pattiseema for second time
1 year, 5 months ago

YSRC government to use Pattiseema for second time

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Water resources minister Ambati Rambabu has said that the state government aims to store Krishna waters at the Pulichintala Project for future needs. Hence it was decided to lift the Godavari's surplus water from the Pattiseema project to the Krishna river, he said. “There is no alternative to supply sufficient irrigation water to the Krishna Delta and hence it …

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Tidal marsh or ‘fake habitat’? California environmental project draws criticism
2 years, 3 months ago

Tidal marsh or ‘fake habitat’? California environmental project draws criticism

LA Times  

Southwest of Sacramento, the branching arms of waterways reach into a patchwork of farm fields and pastures. A large portion of that requirement could be satisfied by the property southwest of Sacramento — called the Lower Yolo Ranch Tidal Habitat Restoration Project — if federal wildlife officials agree with claims by state and federal water agencies that much of the …

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Leadership change approved at Delta State University
2 years, 6 months ago

Leadership change approved at Delta State University

Associated Press  

JACKSON, Miss — William LaForge, who has served as the president of Delta State University since 2013, will depart at the end of June. “The very basic explanation I was provided was that the IHL Board thinks a leadership change is warranted because the comparative state of the university from the time when I began my service in 2013 until …

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Lusia Harris, the only woman to be drafted by an NBA team, dies at 66
2 years, 11 months ago

Lusia Harris, the only woman to be drafted by an NBA team, dies at 66

LA Times  

Lusia Harris goes in for a layup for Delta State in 1977, the year she was drafted by the New Orleans Jazz. Lusia Harris, the only woman to be drafted by an NBA team and the first person to score a point in women’s basketball for the United States in the Olympics, has died at her home in Mississippi. “The …

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Start your day here: The Biden administration will give out 400 million free N95 masks
2 years, 11 months ago

Start your day here: The Biden administration will give out 400 million free N95 masks

NPR  

Delta State Athletics Mourns the Passing of @DeltaStateWBB Legend Lusia Harris-Stewart 📰: https://t.co/gb03SsqiaN pic.twitter.com/Hu9EkUjPB4 — Delta St. "We are deeply saddened to share the news that our angel, matriarch, sister, mother, grandmother, Olympic medalist, The Queen of Basketball, Lusia Harris has passed away unexpectedly today in Mississippi," the family said in a statement shared by Delta State University, her alma …

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Extreme Heat Could Also Mean Power and Water Shortages
3 years, 4 months ago

Extreme Heat Could Also Mean Power and Water Shortages

Wired  

Across the Western United States, signs of a parched present—and future—are everywhere. “The spatial coverage of drought in the West is huge right now,” says Dan McEvoy, assistant professor of climatology at the Desert Research Institute in Nevada, who studies the causes and effects of western droughts. And California is pretty bad.” As he spoke with WIRED during his vacation …

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Delta variant most predominant in second wave in Jharkhand’s 5 districts
3 years, 6 months ago

Delta variant most predominant in second wave in Jharkhand’s 5 districts

Hindustan Times  

Genome sequencing of samples of Covid-19 patients from across five major districts of Jharkhand has shown the prevalence of variants of concern among 90% samples, with the Delta variant being most predominant. Health department officials said 364 samples collected in the months of April and May from Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Hazaribagh, and Palamu over the past two months were sent …

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3rd Covid wave in Maha: Curbs, vax can delay it, reduce impact
3 years, 6 months ago

3rd Covid wave in Maha: Curbs, vax can delay it, reduce impact

Hindustan Times  

Maharashtra is likely to witness the third wave of Covid-19 infections as early as mid-August, according to state Covid task force members, but they feel curbs, coupled with faster vaccination, could delay it and reduce its impact. HT Image Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray had convened a meeting on Wednesday over preparations for the possible third wave, where the state health …

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Busy 2020 hurricane season has Louisiana bracing a 6th time
4 years, 2 months ago

Busy 2020 hurricane season has Louisiana bracing a 6th time

Associated Press  

— For the sixth time in the Atlantic hurricane season, people in Louisiana are once more fleeing the state’s barrier islands and sailing boats to safe harbor while emergency officials ramp up command centers and consider ordering evacuations. Forecasts placed most of Louisiana within Delta’s path, with the latest National Hurricane Center estimating landfall in the state on Friday. The …

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Hurricane Delta lashes Mexico’s Yucatan, then heads for US
4 years, 2 months ago

Hurricane Delta lashes Mexico’s Yucatan, then heads for US

Associated Press  

CANCUN, Mexico — Hurricane Delta emerged into the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday and headed toward Louisiana after making landfall just south of the Mexican resort of Cancun, toppling trees and cutting power to residents of the Yucatan peninsula’s resort-studded coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Delta weakened to a Category 1 storm during the afternoon, but …

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