Population in the News

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Population News Sunday January 28th 2007

Plenty Of Pandas
(NBC San Diego: Thu, 25 Jan) It's not quite a population explosion, but China has 18 young panda cubs and they all need names. Find out how you can help name them in Thursday's webcast.

Saudi Arabia plans to increase water supply
(Zawya: Sun, 28 Jan) 28 January 2007 Riyadh: The Saudi Arabian Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has drawn up a plan to eliminate water shortages across the country.

China's 'one-child' policy
(Aljazeera: Tue, 23 Jan) The imbalance has grown since China introduced a one-child policy more than 25 years ago to curb population growth in the world's most populous nation - now with about 1.3 billion citizens.

Get Your Motor Running
(KQED: Capital Notes: Fri, 26 Jan) An interesting new report from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office gives some real numbers to fuel the frustration most Californians have with traffic jams and other transportation woes. One good example, lifted right out of the first pages of the LAO report: from 1990 to 2003, California's population increased by about 21%... travel on the state's highway system rose by 26%... while

Thursday, January 25, 2007
(The Pakistan Link: Thu, 25 Jan) ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's growth rate has dropped from 2.1 percent to 1.8 percent per year, according to a Population Ministry official. 'We will achieve our target to bring the rate down to 1.3 percent by 2020,' said the official on Wednesday.

Dewhurst says Texas needs more prisons
(News 8 Austin: Thu, 25 Jan) Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst says Texas will need to build prisons holding at least 4,000 new beds. He said the state's population growth demands more prison capacity.

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