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Redoing Bathroom As Refuge Adds Value To Home
ASSOCIATED PRESSTell me if you've had this problem before: You're enjoying your shower; someone in the house flushes a toilet; and all of a sudden it turns from heaven into Hades. That scenario has been an annoying facet of America's daily bathroom life for decades &#...Tags: Kohler Company, Metal and Mineral, Energy Saving, Coral Gables, Building Material
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Water district all wet with drought talk
I am dumbfounded that after two years of Water restrictions, crying about drought, and all of the fear-mongering the South Florida Water Management District has been blasting out to keep us from running the shower while we bathe, that now that we have...Tags: Rivers, Lake Okeechobee, Defense, Meteorological Disasters, Floods
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Corps lowers level of Lake Okeechobee
(Fort Lauderdale) Sun SentinelTo prepare for a possible hit from Hurricane Ike, the Army Corps of Engineers on Thursday started draining water from Lake Okeechobee to ease the strain on the 70-year-old dike that protects South Florida from flooding. It's the first time in more than...Tags: Lake Okeechobee, Disasters, Defense, Natural Disasters, Meteorological Disasters
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Ike could strain South Florida's soggy drainage system
South Florida Sun-SentinelThink of saturated South Florida as a sponge that already absorbed a soggy summer and the drenching Tropical Storm Fay delivered. Now here comes Hurricane Ike, threatening to bring more water than the sponge can handle. Just when South Florida's 1,800...Tags: Engineering, South Florida Water Management District, Everglades, Lake Okeechobee, Hurricane Ike
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Plant profile: Pineapple
Special to the SentinelScientific name: Ananas comosus Growth habit: An evergreen upright clump forming perennial with arching leaves that grows to 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide. The leaves arise from a basal stem, are lancelike dark-green to blue-green, sometimes with spines,...Tags: Florida, Fertilizer
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South Florida prepares for Hurricane Ike's wrath
South Florida Sun-SentinelAs fierce but compact Hurricane Ike swerved toward the Florida Keys, the entire coastline of southeast Florida went on alert for a storm whose destination remains unclear. The hurricane weakened slightly as it moved north of Puerto Rico toward the...Tags: Puerto Rico, Natural Disasters, Meteorological Disasters, Florida's Turnpike, Regional Authority
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California revives program to buy water from farmers
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSaying California's water reserves are all but gone, state officials on Thursday announced the revival of a dormant 17-year-old program to buy water from Sacramento Valley farmers and sell it to the thirstiest Southern California agencies in case this...Tags: California, Natural Resource Industry, Ventura (Ventura, California), Los Angeles, San Diego (San Diego, California)
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Hurricane Ike spurs concern about Lake Okeechobee dike
South Florida Sun-SentinelTropical Storm Fay gave Lake Okeechobee a welcome boost, but a repeat drenching from a parade of storms churning toward Florida threatens to push the lake's aging dike past its limits. For the first time since April 2006, the Army Corps of Engineers on...Tags: Engineering, Meteorological Disasters, Everglades, Lake Okeechobee, Hurricane Ike
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Garden Q & A: Ailing pygmy date, robellini and paurotis palms; troublesome Christmas palm roots; powdery mildew
My pygmy date palm is in poor health. The inner leaves are turning brown. I watered it sporadically due to Water restrictions. I bought the plant two years ago and until now it was fine. What is wrong? — Steve De Marco, Hollywood The palm has fatal...Tags: Public Holidays, Boca Raton, Plant Diseases, Boynton Beach, Metal and Mineral
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Two gardens, one idea: Drought-tolerant doesn't have to mean dull
Times Staff WriterAt first glance, the two homes have nothing in common. One's an urban update of a rustic log cabin. The other, a 1920s Mediterranean casa. What links them is their imaginative drought-resistant gardens -- drastic departures from the lush carpets of...Tags: Metal and Mineral, New Jersey, Building Material, Conservation, Studio City
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Lawn? Yawn. Along the sidewalk, think different
Special to The TimesLandscape designer Robert Cornell just wanted to save water. When he planted drought-tolerant shrubs instead of turf grass on a little belt of land between the sidewalk and the street, he hardly expected the brouhaha that followed. The landmark garden on...Tags: California, Road Transportation, Santa Monica, Transportation, Van Nuys
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How we use water is more crucial than turf we plant
Sentinel Staff WriterTALKING WITH... Barry C. Troutman, 63, Orlando-based vice president of technical services for ValleyCrest Cos., a major landscaping company. Troutman has taken the lead locally in opposing efforts by local communities to ban St. Augustine grass as a...Tags: Water Supply, Weather Reports, Local Authority, Orlando Weather, Baseball
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