World Water Week Ends
Friday, August 21st, 2009 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments OffMore than a thousand people met in Stockholm this week to discus the planet's most urgent water issues at the annual World Water Week conference. Near the end of the event, hosted by the Stockholm International ...
World Water Week Ends
Friday, August 21st, 2009 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments OffMore than a thousand people met in Stockholm this week to discuss the planet's most urgent water issues at the annual World Water Week conference. Near the end of the event, hosted by the Stockholm International ...
What’s Your Company’s Water Footprint?
Thursday, August 20th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments Offby Will Sarni Last year we heard a chorus of "water is the new oil," including a memorable BusinessWeek cover depicting oil baron T. Boone Pickens knee-deep in H20. This year the cry is "water is the ...
What’s Your Company’s Water Footprint?
Thursday, August 20th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments Offby Will Sarni Last year we heard a chorus of "water is the new oil," including a memorable BusinessWeek cover depicting oil baron T. Boone Pickens knee-deep in H20. This year the cry is "water is the ...
Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments OffIn Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water, authors and activists Maude Barlow and Tony Clark aim to document the rapid privatization and commodification of water. Blue Gold tells the ...
Saving Water Could Cut Water-Heating Emissions by 30%, Report Finds
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments Offby Alok JhaBritons could save 30% of the carbon emissions associated with heating water at home by following simple advice such as lagging pipes and using low-flow taps, according to energy experts.They estimate that installing just ...
Ashley Murray: Wastewater is a Resource
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments OffNominated by Zoë Chafe Ashley Murray's work is motivated by a simple conviction: human waste is a resource that should be reused. Her uphill battle: most sanitation systems have been built to dispose of (rather than reuse) ...
Ashley Murray: Wastewater is a Resource
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments OffNominated by Zoë Chafe Ashley Murray's work is motivated by a simple conviction: human waste is a resource that should be reused. Her uphill battle: most sanitation systems have been built to dispose of (rather than reuse) ...
What Percentage of Water that Goes Down the Drain is Actually Lost Forever?
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments OffLast week, peer-to-peer network CurrentTV invited us to participate in their Earth Week special, where they asked their readers to pose their most burning eco-questions to a handful of savvy bloggers. We've been thinking a ...
Obama Pressed To Increase Global Water Aid
Friday, March 20th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments OffIn his inauguration speech in January, U.S. President Barack Obama mentioned four words that lifted the hearts of water advocates worldwide: "Let clean water flow." Although Obama has proposed doubling U.S. spending on foreign aid, his new ...
World Water Day: Freshwater Roundup
Friday, March 20th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments OffSunday, March 22, is World Water Day. The UN initiative began in 1993 as a means of celebrating freshwater resources around the world, and of raising awareness around the need to keep these resources clean and ...
Let the Clean Waters Flow
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments Offby Jonathan Greenblatt Since January 20, the American people have been drinking from a fire hose. We are deluged with progress on issues that once seemed intractable - restarting the economy, safeguarding the environment, universalizing access to ...
Water Efficiency Key to Saving Energy, Expert Says
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments OffImage credit WikipediaIn regions where pumping and distributing water requires significant electricity use, policies that lead to reduced water consumption could address climate change more efficiently than requiring businesses and households to use less energy, according ...
Peter Gleick and The World’s Water
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments OffLooking for a way to update yourself on the state of the world's water? On Wed., Feb. 4, Peter Gleick, one of the world's leading authorities on water issues, will present The World's Water 2008-2009 biannual ...
No Such Thing As Waste Water
Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments OffOn the blue planet, and especially in the industrialized world, water is seemingly everywhere. At the turn of the faucet or the flush of a toilet, our control over our water supply is misleadingly large. Although ...
Pulling Water from the Air: The WaterMill
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments OffI'm in London, watching snowflakes fall amidst early morning rain flurries, reading David Grann's new book The Lost City of Z, and getting ready for the Barbican event tomorrow night. But there's an article in the ...
Plumbing the Future: Greywater Guerrillas
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments OffLooks like not all plumbers are simply average joes (sorry, couldn't help myself). According to this excellent article by Matthew Green of the East Bay Express, a league of "plumbing activists" are putting their technical skills ...
Water Corruption Prevents Progress
Friday, August 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments OffAfrica's largest water transfer effort, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, plans to supply water to the industrial heartland of South Africa and to generate energy for impoverished Lesotho. The multi-billion dollar investment offers economic growth ...
Water Footprints Make a Splash
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments OffBy Ben Block If the full water requirements of a morning roast are calculated - farm irrigation, bean transportation, and the serving of the coffee - one cup requires 140 liters of water. This notion of a ...
Toilet to Tap or Perfectly Potable? California Uses New Treatment Technology to Increase Water Resources
Friday, August 15th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Water | Comments OffPressed for water resources, California's Orange County has spent millions of dollars to build and recently open a state-of-the-art water treatment system that processes and transforms formerly flushed sewage into drinkable tap water. The Orange County ...