The draft European Water Stewardship Standard defines requirements for sustainable water management and includes a list of indicators which may be used for reporting and certification. The standard was finalised in June with the European Water Partnership (EWP), an open member organisation with an interest in water management.
The draft European Water Stewardship Standard defines requirements for sustainable water management and includes a list of indicators which may be used for reporting and certification.
The standard was finalised in June with the European Water Partnership (EWP), an open member organisation with an interest in water management.
REUTERS - The International Monetary Fund will give Pakistan $450 million in emergency flood aid, providing some relief for a government overwhelmed by the disaster and facing renewed militant violence. IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in Washington on Thursday that the funds would be dispersed in "coming weeks". Strauss-Kahn said discussions with a delegation led by Pakistan's Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on how to "reorganise" an $11 billion IMF loan program would continue. He said Islamabad remained committed to terms including tax and energy sector reforms.
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in Washington on Thursday that the funds would be dispersed in "coming weeks".
Strauss-Kahn said discussions with a delegation led by Pakistan's Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on how to "reorganise" an $11 billion IMF loan program would continue.
He said Islamabad remained committed to terms including tax and energy sector reforms.
The Shock Doctrine. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Bathgate was one of hundreds of rare fruit aficionados gathered to share seeds, cuttings and knowledge. The organization founded in 1968 encourages gardeners and hobby farmers to plant unusual fruit instead of commonplace fare, such as apples and oranges. Members search the globe for new varieties or seek to develop tastier, heartier strains suitable for backyard growing. While the organization focuses on fruit that is not widely commercially grown, members have a chance at immortality, and perhaps profit, with discoveries that become named varieties. They point out that the Hass avocado, a variety that accounts for 95 percent of avocados grown in California, came from a tree amateur horticulturist Rudolph Hass discovered in his grove in the Orange County suburb of La Habra Heights in 1926. The peach was Bathgate's shot at fame in the small but passionate world of exotic fruit growers. "Isn't it delicious?" the 77-year-old retired aerospace engineer beamed. "I grafted it onto a friend's tree that never produced, and it's been going gangbusters since then." Along with sampling new varieties of plums, apricots, peaches and other stone fruit, the growers could tour a pomegranate plantation or learn to propagate jujubes during the four-day conference held each year in August. Edgar Valdivia, 70, escorted visitors through his shady San Fernando Valley backyard to show off spiky, pink dragon fruit, which is also known as a pitaya (pih-TIE'-yuh) or pitahaya (pih-tah-HAY'-yuh).
Bathgate was one of hundreds of rare fruit aficionados gathered to share seeds, cuttings and knowledge. The organization founded in 1968 encourages gardeners and hobby farmers to plant unusual fruit instead of commonplace fare, such as apples and oranges. Members search the globe for new varieties or seek to develop tastier, heartier strains suitable for backyard growing.
While the organization focuses on fruit that is not widely commercially grown, members have a chance at immortality, and perhaps profit, with discoveries that become named varieties.
They point out that the Hass avocado, a variety that accounts for 95 percent of avocados grown in California, came from a tree amateur horticulturist Rudolph Hass discovered in his grove in the Orange County suburb of La Habra Heights in 1926.
The peach was Bathgate's shot at fame in the small but passionate world of exotic fruit growers.
"Isn't it delicious?" the 77-year-old retired aerospace engineer beamed. "I grafted it onto a friend's tree that never produced, and it's been going gangbusters since then."
Along with sampling new varieties of plums, apricots, peaches and other stone fruit, the growers could tour a pomegranate plantation or learn to propagate jujubes during the four-day conference held each year in August.
Edgar Valdivia, 70, escorted visitors through his shady San Fernando Valley backyard to show off spiky, pink dragon fruit, which is also known as a pitaya (pih-TIE'-yuh) or pitahaya (pih-tah-HAY'-yuh).
