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• Thai Rainwater no longer safe to drink

  
  PCT Thailand's Free Expatriates Blog — Authority: 147
  Rainwater no longer safe to drinkRainwater in Thailand is no longer safe for consumption, especially in the coastal provinces in the East, due to rising level of acidity caused by toxins from factories and traffic smog.Citing a study sponsored by the Department of Pollution Control, a Kasetsart University lecturer ...
  6 hours ago

• Denny’s Cabin in Missouri

  
  Tiny House Blog — Authority: 496
  Denny Henke wrote me and told me about his cabin/eco village in Missouri. I have posted a few of his photographs but you can view the rest on flickr and visit his ongoing blog called Our Tomorrow . I’ll let Denny tell his story. I’ve been living full time in my 12×16 cabin since May of 2008. The cabin was ...
  16 hours ago

• The Daily Five: Tuesday, 10 November, 2009

  
  EcoTech Daily — Authority: 126
  Manhole Cover Harvests Rainwater; Backyard wind turbine; Cheaper thermal solar power; The Future of the Grid; Next Generation in EcoTechnology Futuristic Manhole Cover Harvests Rainwater Power and Tells You Where to Catch a Bus City streets could be much more interesting and informative with these manhole covers - ...
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• Rotterdam’s Parks Will Recycle Rainwater While Serving As Urban Playgrounds

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 519
  WaterpleinenTo launch its 14th anthology, Water, Alphabet City has organized a series of events this week in Toronto, two of which are the HYDROCity symposium and its accompanying exhibition at the University of Toronto. Another event is a lunchtime talk in which Jeroen Bodewits will discuss Waterpleinen, a project ...
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• Manhole of the Future is Powered by Rainwater

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 742
  Instead of acting as one of the most bland parts of city landscapes, what if manholes served a purpose? That’s what designers Cheolyeon Jo and Youngsun Lee propose with their “ Eco Sign “, an electronic manhole cover that gives directions to the closest train or bus stop . Read the rest of Manhole ...
  5 days ago

• Floodway clean-up to evict 2,070 families

  
  PinoyBusiness.ORG - Home — Authority: 135
  In order to avoid the floods that happened during the onslaught of tropical storm Ondoy last September, the government wants to clear the floodway of any obstructions. Because of this, about 2,070 illegal settler families who live along Napindan Channel and Manggahan Floodway in Pasig City would be evicted. This is ...
  6 days ago

• Rainwater Harvesting with Brad Lancaster

  
  RAW INSPIRATIONS — Authority: 117
  Brad holds the torch for our rethinking our relationship with rain water. Using this valuable resource can solve a lot of problems. Wed Nov 2 7 PM pst / 10 PM est www.VisionaryCultureRadio.com Brad Lancaster is a nationally renown speaker and author of the acclaimed Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume ...
  6 days ago

• Daniel Libeskind designs a green-roofed complex for Dusseldorf

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 440
  Design for the Ko-Bogen, a dynamic new office and retail complex for downtown Dusseldorf was unveiled recently. Daniel Libeskind has designed it beautifully to fit in with the surrounding historic architecture of Köenigsallee Boulevard. This amazing urban space joins two city blocks with one continuous roofline, ...
  6 days ago

• Rainwater is safe for health: study

  
  Pakistan Views — Authority: 152
  Drinking untreated rainwater is safe for your health, according to an Australian study. Researchers from Melbourne’s Monash University looked at 300 homes that used rainwater collected in water tanks as their primary drinking source in what they described as a “world first” study that comes amid growing ...
  6 days ago

• Rain Water Harvesting Or the History of the Rainwater Barrel

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 144
  By Ron Hartwell While the history of the barrel goes back to Babylon and Roman times and the rain water barrel would have to follow that , the history of rainwater harvesting very possibly would date back to the very first appearance of "Man". It is quite likely that the "cave man" collected rain water for future ...
  1 week ago

• Books: Sandra Brown on ‘Rainwater’

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 441
  Sandra Brown Sandra Brown , who lives in Arlington, Texas, is a writer who has produced a long string of New York Times bestsellers. Sandra started her career as a romance novelist, but over the past two decades, her specialty has become the fast-paced, contemporary thriller — crime fiction dealing in ...
  1 week ago

• India, Mumbai: water cuts are on, protests against water shortage

  
  WASH news Asia & Pacific — Authority: 130
  Mumbai will have to live with steep water cuts until at least 15 July 2010. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has imposed a 15% cut in water supply for residential consumers, and a 30% cut for commercial establishments like hotels and malls. Normally, Mumbai gets 3,420 million litres a day (mld) of water ...
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• Water Damaged Drywall – Fixing His Drywall Will Cost You More Than Acquiring a New One

  
  hotcrew57.com — Authority: 159
  When the surface is fixed with color one might not manage to see the horizon however you will try to understand the dampness in the position where the destruction actually happened. When our drywall water damage is in the attic then you could maybe obtain a leak where the wall seems damaged to the post or you could ...
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• Upscale Subprime

  
  Blue Jeans Millionaire — Authority: 124
  It’s not just the mom and pop buyers who are looking at onerous mortgage resets on the poorly underwritten loans giddily funded back during the recent  bubble. The smart money in commercial real estate is not the Wall Street Firms that bought in at top dollar in 2007. The smart money is the guys who sold to the ...
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• Israel denies Palestinians access to water: Amnesty International

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 611
  According to an Amnesty International report, Israel is ‘using its “total control” over water supplies to discriminate against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.’ “Water is a basic need and a right, but for many Palestinians obtaining even poor quality, subsistence-level quantities of water has become a ...
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• Report: Palestinians denied water

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 548
  BBC Some Palestinians only get 20 litres of water a day, Amnesty says Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says. In a report, the human rights group says Israeli water restrictions discriminate against Palestinians in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jammu and Kashmir to introduce water conservation law

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  By Binoo JoshiJammu, Oct 27 (IANS) The Kashmir valley needs 110 million gallons of water a day but gets only 40 million now. Alarmed by the disastrous effects of climate change such as receding glaciers and drying streams, the Jammu and Kashmir government will bring a law to force water conservation.A bill will be ...
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• Michigan Family Spends Millions on ‘Green’ GM Dealership

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 158
  How beneficial is it to go “green”?Ask the LaFontaine family, builders of what may be America’s first Gold LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) auto dealership.After constructing their new Highland Township Buick-Pontiac-GMC-Cadillac store, the LaFontaines admitted they got “carried ...
  2 weeks ago

• Every little bit helps, says the eco-conscious owner at Deerfield gas station

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 440
  A gas station owner has recently added some green features to his property, giving some relief to the environment. The Deerfield gas station got energy-saving motion sensors on the light switches and tap faucets in addition to the rain barrel. For his efforts of reducing the gas pump’s carbon footprint, David Welch ...
  2 weeks ago

• Geneva Raindrops Award 2009 contest for video films

  
  WASH News International — Authority: 113
  The International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA) will be awarding three prizes for the best videos on the advantages of the use of rainwater. The duration of the videos should be from 10 seconds to 6 minutes. The prizes will be awarded in December 2009. The prizes are: 1st winner – CHF 500.00 (US$ 500) ...
  2 weeks ago

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