Water Conservation

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• Mop More Efficiently; Separate the Waters!

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 693
  Carlos Rivadulla got the idea when he was sweeping floors in the army, and now, a few years later and with the help of his brother Juan Rivadulla, the siblings launched the Ecofrego , an eco-friendlier bucket that separates the clean water from the dirty one. It is really quite straightforward and we are surprised ...
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• California Dams to Feel Climate Impacts

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 723
  Californias hydroelectric facilities could generate considerably less power over the next 40 years as a result of rising temperatures associated with climate change, according to a recent study.
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• Rainwater Showers: One Solution for Tybee Island Tourists

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 693
  Image via: NIELS AHA on Flickr.com Lets say youre a small town or village and a large portion of your economy is dependent on tourism. Lets say you are also, while concerned about sustaining your economy, concerned with sustaining the natural environment - the very thing that keeps tourists coming back and thus ...
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• Massaging Adjustable Low Flow Showerhead

  
  Greener Choices for Stuff You Use Everyday! — Authority: 144
  Massaging Adjustable Low-flow Showerhead for $29.95 Nearly 25 percent of the water used in an average home is for showers, about 700 gallons a week for a family of four. By using a low-flow showerhead, you can cut that amount in half, and the latest low-flow technology doesn’t sacrifice water pressure or ...
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• Construction begins on Scottsdale rain garden

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 139
  Rain garden construction begins – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Construction is under way on the water garden and patio just outside of the Scottdale Public Library. The nearly $60,000 project includes a rain garden and permeable concrete………. Kathy Hamilton, landscape architect and storm water technician with ...
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• Water Conservation: The Benefits of Rain Harvesting

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 506
  Many areas in the United States face water shortages on a regular basis.  Certain cities place restrictions on the amount of water used for lawns and gardens because of water shortages.  Increasing water bill costs are affecting the consumer.  Because of these problems, water conservation has become an important ...
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• Is Bottled Water a Dead Man Walking?

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 666
  At the 2009 Net Impact Conference, Adam Werbach called Fiji Water a “Dead Man Walking,” stating that the company has greenwashed its brand and that it was only a matter of time before its actions caught up with the company (read a NY times article on Fiji here). While Werbach was referring to the way [...]
  3 days ago

• Demand for Water Officially Exceeds Supply

  
  Life within me — Authority: 141
  Water conservation is a tough subject. While millions of people across the globe don’t have access to safe drinking water, many millions more who are responsible for wasting so much of this precious resource balk at price increases or attempts to ration it because water is a ‘human right’. But now, the need to ...
  3 days ago

• Heart of Dryness: Water Infrastructure and Climate Change

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 563
  Photo courtesy of the James Workman The Los Angeles Aqueduct carries water from the Owens River to the city of Los Angeles. Built in the early 20th century, the pipe allowed for the settlement and cultivation of the San Fernando Valley. Courtesy of Aquafornia.org By James G. Workman Special to Circle of Blue ...
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• Heart of Dryness: Water Infrastructure and Climate Change

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 563
  Photo courtesy of the James Workman The Los Angeles Aqueduct carries water from the Owens River to the city of Los Angeles. Built in the early 20th century, the pipe allowed for the settlement and cultivation of the San Fernando Valley. Courtesy of Aquafornia.org By James G. Workman Special to Circle of Blue ...
  3 days ago

• Water Conservation: Jamaican Rio Grande (2 Of 3)

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 170
  Rio Grande is Jamaica’s largest free-flowing river and a major inland fishery. This water is important for the life and livelihood of 25,000 people in Portland, Jamaica and is a habitat for hundred. . .
  4 days ago

• Tahoes Environmental Dilema: Build Green or Not at All?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 693
  Developer Roger Wittenburg and the hotel he wants to tear down. Photo credit: Randy Pench/ The Sacramento Bee The city of Crystal Bay, Nevada, a quaint town on Lake Tahoes northern shore, has become the ideological battleground for local environmentalists: Can they really support the development of a behemoth new 16 ...
  4 days ago

• Dam fun & native plants at LCRA’s Wilkerson Center

  
  Digging — Authority: 420
  Queen butterfly in the Wilkerson Center’s native-plant gardenThe siren song of beautiful fall weather, combined with school holidays last week, pulled us, unresisting, outdoors every day to enjoy local sightseeing in Austin.On Wednesday I took the kids to the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) on Lake Austin ...
  5 days ago

• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
  5 days ago

• What you see is what you get: Water flow management made easier with visualization technology

  
  GreenTech Pastures — Authority: 543
  Water management is focus of green-tech projects highlighted by IBM, Wolfram Research.
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• Eco-friendly Plumbing

  
  Buy Owner Blog — Authority: 125
  According to Mindfully.org , “the average [American’s] individual daily consumption of water is 159 gallons,” while people in other countries live off of a small 25 gallons. Americans use a lot of water by performing everyday activities like bathing, going to the bathroom, washing dishes, cleaning the house and ...
  6 days ago

• Water Funds Proliferate in Latin America

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 723
  From Colombia to Brazil, new funds are combining private contributions and state money to help protect the watersheds around cities.
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• Water: Get to Know It, Then Conserve It

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 548
  Water. Some folks have it. Too many people don’t. The typical human body is made up of 66 percent water and could survive roughly a month without food–but only a week without water. The 2004 UNICEF report on the State of the World’s Children found that one in seven of the world’s children had no [...]
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• Heinz Tallies Cuts in Emissions

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 723
  With innovations such as burning leftover potato peels for natural gas and switching to alternative fuels, the food giant says it has made substantial cuts in emissions and waste, as well as energy and water use.
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