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• The World Water Crisis

  
  Going Green Power Blog — Authority: 132
  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 ...
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• Heart of Dryness: Water, Climate and Energy

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 518
  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: 727
  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 ...
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• News from Mother Jones: Health Cares Carbon Footprint

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 727
  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 ...
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• Wretched Excess Dept: Worlds Largest Bathtub Needs 6,340 Gallons of Water

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 727
  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
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• How the Bushmen of Africa Can Save Us from the Global Water Crisis (Video)

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 727
  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 ...
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• Learn About Your New KOR One Hydration Vessel: An Interview with Eric Barnes

  
  OppGreen Insights — Authority: 132
  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 ...
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• Looking at a Tiered-Water Severance Tax

  
  California Greening — Authority: 124
  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 ...
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• Smart Water Technologies To Be a $16.3B Industry by 2020

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 727
  Photo via Pink Sherbet Photography Electricity gets all the attention when it comes to the smart grid, but not to be ignored is also what a smart grid can do for water consumption. Americans consume twice the world average in water , massive amounts are wasted in households, manufacturing, agriculture, and ...
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• POLITICS: Chapel Hill’s new mayor has the correct formula for sustainable development; Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina blames California’s water crisis on environmental regulation

  
  The Conservation Report — Authority: 487
  Certainly, our society is propped up by oil, and since oil is a nonrenewable resource and inherently inefficient (not to mention our knack for increasing entropy), our political leaders must make prudent policy decisions that facilitate society’s transfer from depending largely on ever-decreasing or unavailable ...
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• Change begins in Marin but we need more.

  
  California Greening — Authority: 124
  The election of Pam Hartwell-Herrero to the City Council in Fairfax means that Greens make up a majority of the council members. She joins Greens Larry Bragman and Lew Tremaine. If this is a sign of that things are changing, I would hope that it continues in Marin. Assembly member Jared Huffman represents the 6th ...
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• Climate Change Is Water Change — Water Experts React to Barcelona Negotiations

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 518
  Water experts have convened in Barcelona to ensure water management strategies are integrated into global climate change negotiations – so far their efforts have fallen on deaf ears. The Global Public Policy Network organized a Water Day to coincide with the last build-up conference before the United Nations ...
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• Keith Schneider: Water Not Mixed into Barcelona Climate Talks

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 518
  Circle of Blue’s Senior Editor Keith Schneider breaks down the U.N. Barcelona climate conference with day one leaving us to question, “Where’s the water?” BARCELONA (November 3, 2009) — On Monday, at the latest global negotiation on a new treaty to cool the planet and heat up global economies, thousands ...
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• Keith Schneider: Water Not Mixed into Barcelona Climate Talks

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 518
  Circle of Blue’s Senior Editor Keith Schneider breaks down the U.N. Barcelona climate conference with day one leaving us to question, “Where’s the water?” BARCELONA (November 3, 2009) — On Monday, at the latest global negotiation on a new treaty to cool the planet and heat up global economies, thousands ...
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• Are We Running Out of Safe Water?

  
  Mindzle - Living Green Smart - Sustainable Living Articles — Authority: 123
  Berkey Filter Review Water is a life giving 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 moon explosions were planned for the purpose of, hopefully, detecting the presence of water ...
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• Politics of Water Splits Environmental Organizations

  
  California Greening — Authority: 124
  If you want to know more about what we should really be doing regarding water in California, you need to read Mato Ska here . here , here , or here . I want to talk about the politics. That is beginning to splinter over more than North / South, Valley / Coast or even the widening gap between Democrats and ...
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• Climate Change May Kill 250,000 Kids Next Year - Many More to Die Annually by 2030

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 727
  photo: 200 More Montreal Stencils via flickr. Now heres one to tug at your climate change heartstrings... A new report from Save the Children highlights the impact that global warming is having on the worlds children and how many more will be put at risk in the coming decades. The stats: Climate change could ...
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• REAPING RICHES IN A WRETCHED REGION: SUBSIDIZED INDUSTRIAL FARMING AND ITS LINK TO PERPETUAL POVERTY

  
  Green Party Watch — Authority: 506
  Lloyd G. Carter is a Fresno County (CA) Green with a long resume in both journalism and law.  He was recently published in the Environmental Law Review, Golden Gate University, same title as this post.   You may have heard about Sean Hannity and the use of Fox News to propagandize the water situation in ...
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• Husband and wife artists tackle global water crisis with new exhibit

  
  Clarksville, TN Online — Authority: 547
  Husband and wife artists Gregg Schlanger and Monica Quattrochio, troubled by what a billion Third World inhabitants must drink to survive, are opening a new installation and exhibit at the Twist Art Gallery in Nashville that deals specifically with water. “Water is a symbol of life, fertility, purification and ...
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• Yemens Water Crisis A Mideast Warning

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  The City of Sanaa From Terra Daily: Sanaa may be the first capital city in the world to run out of water. If that happens, it will be a signpost to the conflicts over shrinking resources that scientists and sociologists see coming in the decades ahead. The ancient city, which dates back to the Sabean dynasty of ...
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