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U.S. visa system not expected to be on-line before next week: State Department

June 17, 2015 creative bureau, clock, consular, indian, man-holding, next-week, outsourcing, state-department, the-clock, treasury, twitter

The U.S. State Department does not expect to resolve a technical problem affecting travel visas before next week, a spokesman said on Wednesday

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A third of world’s aquifers are being sucked dry: NASA data

June 17, 2015 creative california, chris-arsenault, man-holding, rome, the-clock, twitter, university, water-resources

By Chris Arsenault ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Human water use is sucking dry around a third of the world’s largest underground water basins at an alarming rate, with potentially risky consequences for farmers and other consumers, researchers said. Eight of the planet’s 37 biggest aquifers are classified as “overstressed” because they have almost no new water flowing in to offset usage, according to two studies from the University of California based on NASA satellite data