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Arizona officials announced Thursday the state will no longer grant certifications for new developments within the Phoenix area, as groundwater rapidly disappears amid years of water overuse and climate change-driven drought.

A new study showed that the groundwater supporting the Phoenix area likely can’t meet additional development demand in the coming century, officials said at a news conference. Gov. Katie Hobbs and the state’s top water officials outlined the results of the study looking at groundwater demand within the Phoenix metro area, which is regulated by a state law that tries to ensure Arizona’s housing developments, businesses and farms are not using more groundwater than is being replaced.

The study found that around 4% of the area’s demand for groundwater, close to 4.9 million acre-feet, cannot be met over the next 100 years under current conditions – a huge shortage that will have significant ...

Leonore Gewessler, the Austrian Minister for Climate Action, comments, "The Green Transition Information Factory demonstrates the added value of the European Earth observation system (Copernicus) for the transition in the energy and mobility fields as well as with regard to sustainable cities. If decision-makers or the public want to know where the best place is for wind of PV systems, this great tool which has been developed by ESA in cooperation with Austrian space companies, makes it easy to locate them." The overall ambition for ESA's Green Transition Information Factory is to enable such analyzes and comparison across countries and regions for all of Europe. As a next step, an invitation to tender is being prepared that will expand the initiative and define a blueprint for scaling up the geographic coverage of the platform. ESA's Director General Josef Aschbacher said, "We are sitting on a gold mine of Earth observation data, during the golden age of space data. We need ...

Leonore Gewessler, the Austrian Minister for Climate Action, comments, "The Green Transition Information Factory demonstrates the added value of the European Earth observation system (Copernicus) for the transition in the energy and mobility fields as well as with regard to sustainable cities. If decision-makers or the public want to know where the best place is for wind of PV systems, this great tool which has been developed by ESA in cooperation with Austrian space companies, makes it easy to locate them." The overall ambition for ESA's Green Transition Information Factory is to enable such analyzes and comparison across countries and regions for all of Europe. As a next step, an invitation to tender is being prepared that will expand the initiative and define a blueprint for scaling up the geographic coverage of the platform. ESA's Director General Josef Aschbacher said, "We are sitting on a gold mine of Earth observation data, during the golden age of space data. We need ...