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• A Public Television Series: Californias Water

  
  California Greening — Authority: 426
  I do not know anything about Huell Howsers politics, but I do know that he has a gift for presenting California history and culture in an easy popular format. Notice that this PBS series has been "generously funded" by institutions with a direct stake in this mess. Even so, anyone interested in a video overview ...
  2 days ago

• Peter Gleick: What the Frack? Poisoning our Water in the Name of Energy Profits

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 562
  Image courtesy US Geological Survey Produced water brine pit in Oklahoma oil and gas field from hyrdaulic facturing, or fracking. Here is your word for the day: Fracking or fraccing. [No, fellow Battlestar Galactica fans, this is a different use of the word "frack," although for some, the sentiment is the same.] ...
  2 days ago

• New McKinsey Report Warns of Rising Demand on Water Resources

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 707
  Photo via futureatlas.com We had a brief reprieve from dire water news when Mike posted about US water use in the US in 2005 lower than most years since 1975 . Thanks to efficiency measures in industrial and agricultural sectors, it seemed like we were on a good path. However, a report released on Monday by ...
  2 days ago

• New water legislation already old.

  
  California Greening — Authority: 426
  The recently passed and widely publicized wildly hyped water legislation is already out of date.  This is almost a full year before the voters are going to be asked to approve a bond measure that wont do what it is supposed to do even if that was not enough.  In order to follow this, you have to set aside any ...
  3 days ago

• Help Improve Water Access In Nicaragua

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 614
  laszlo-photos Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Access to safe and clean water is a right that should be afforded to everyone, but unfortunately pollution, climate change and privatization, among other obstacles prevent one billion people obtaining this vital necessity. This upcoming Thanksgiving week, SYRV , a ...
  1 week ago

• Celebrity Summit on the Summit Climb

  
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• Indian Students Develop Bio-Cell to Clean Sewage Water and Generate Electricity

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 433
  A group of students at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur have developed a bio cell(battery) that can be used to treat sewage water and generate electric energy, being a perfect solution to combat the water and energy crisis.
  1 week ago

• London Restoring Water Fountains, Giving Citizens Free Drinking Water

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 707
  Photo via Maurice When did water fountains become more of a novelty than an expectation in urban areas? And when did their restoration become news? It seems to say something about the state of free clean drinking water in cities - perhaps weve realized weve gone too far towards bottled water and are finally, finally ...
  1 week ago

• Sewage-to-Drinking Water System Readied for Luxury Singapore Resort Island

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 707
  photo: Shahram Sharif via flickr. Now this is extreme water recycling: Dallas, Texas-based Global Water Group has installed its first sewage-to-drinking water system on the Singaporean island of Pulau Seringat, Greentech... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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• Looking for water on Earth

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 137
  Never Mind Water on the MoonImage of the Day: Please, can we have some more water?Her’s another egregious example of science gone awry from its intended purpose of serving humanity. At a time when socially blind NASA “elites” are spending tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money playing space invaders, ...
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• SF Green Festival 09 - Reclaimed and Eco-Art Speaks to Minimizing Waste

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 707
  Attendees at the San Francisco Green Festival werent lacking for beautiful things to look at. This display used found materials including flowers and edibles. It is beautiful, and colorful, but right next to it was another large and impressive piece of art created from industrial materials welded together. It was that ...
  1 week ago

• SF Green Festival 09 - Reclaimed and Eco-Art Speaks to Minimizing Waste

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 707
  Attendees at the San Francisco Green Festival werent lacking for beautiful things to look at. This display used found materials including flowers and edibles. It is beautiful, and colorful, but right next to it was another large and impressive piece of art created from industrial materials welded together. It was that ...
  1 week ago

• The World Water Crisis

  
  Going Green Power Blog — Authority: 134
  Berkey Filter Review Water is a unique and fascinating substance! Both scientists and civilians are aware that life cannot continue without liquid water. People are able to live weeks without food but merely days without water. Recent tests on the moon were designed to detect any presence of water, for eventual ...
  1 week ago

• Heart of Dryness: Water, Climate and Energy

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 562
  Photo courtesy of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The Hoover Dam embodies historic intersections of energy and water. How will climate change alter this relationship? By James G. Workman Special to Circle of Blue Copyright 2009 Walker & Company, Excerpt from Heart of Dryness Circle of Blue presents ...
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• Harvesting Fog Provides Drinking Water, Food to Peruvian Slums

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 707
  Photo via Green Diary In Lima, Peru, more than 1.3 million people have no access to drinking water. The citizens without it are in the poorest areas, where water trucked in can cost nine times as much as it does in richer areas. So, citizens have had to either make do without running water, or, with the help of a ...
  2 weeks ago

• News from Mother Jones: Health Cares Carbon Footprint

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 707
  Happy Thursday, TreeHuggers. Everyone knows that America spends a ton of money on health care. But it turns out we spend a lot of fossil fuels on it, too. In fact, a recent study found that a full 8 percent of our carbon emissions come from health-care-related sources. Hospitals are the biggest culprits, followed by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wretched Excess Dept: Worlds Largest Bathtub Needs 6,340 Gallons of Water

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 707
  Photo Via Luxury Launches Baths arent the greenest use of water, and thats with standard sized bath tubs. So what about a 4-foot deep, 72-foot long tub that snags the Guinness World Record (UK) as the biggest bathtub? Yeah... its definitely not the greenest use of water. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  2 weeks ago

• How the Bushmen of Africa Can Save Us from the Global Water Crisis (Video)

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 707
  Images via YouTube and Amazon I started in on a book about a month ago titled Heart of Dryness , which discusses how the bushmen of the Kalahari can teach us what we need to know about how to live in dry climates, something were all increasingly finding ourselves in as we drill ourselves further into a global ...
  2 weeks ago

• Learn About Your New KOR One Hydration Vessel: An Interview with Eric Barnes

  
  OppGreen Insights — Authority: 130
  KOR Water co-founder Eric Barnes says KOR’s mission is to inspire people to transform the way they think and feel about hydration in everyday life. It is so important to reduce the massive waste generated by disposable plastic bottles, and KOR provides a stylish, accessible, proactive way to do that. Now that you ...
  2 weeks ago

• Looking at a Tiered-Water Severance Tax

  
  California Greening — Authority: 426
  A tiered-water severance tax is worth reviewing in addressing the issues of raising revenues and developing research and development. This would be assessed to municipalities and irrigator associations and water authorities based on the allocated supplies of state water. The fund established by this would be applied ...
  3 weeks ago

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