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Under pressure to take steps to clean urban runoff and improve water quality, the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved spending more than $230 million on projects ranging from cleaning up lakes to dealing with storm-drain runoff. Last month, a panel convened by the State Water Resources Control Board concluded in a report that numeric limits for the amount of pollutants that can be discharged into runoff can be established for both construction and industrial sites throughout the entire state. To gauge the relative importance of the transpiration change to global freshwater flow, Stott and his colleagues compared actual river-runoff data from the past century with runoff calculated in models that take account of climate change, solar radiation, deforestation, and carbon dioxide--driven changes in transpiration. |
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