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Know How Much Water You Use [Video]
How do you monitor your outdoor water use, like the water needed for plants? Well, you probably just let your intuition do the work. Now, there is something new to help you with that; a gadget that tells you how much water is being used in real time. Basically, the Water Saver can be attached to the end of a hose ...
Manna from Heavens for Parched Throats
At long last, we have found an oasis for those thirsting for safe drinking water in developing countries. A galaxy of researchers at Purdue University has invented a prototype water disinfection system that could provide the world’s 800 million people with safe drinking water. The new technology uses solar UV to disinfect water. The system uses ultraviolet radiation from the sun ...
Syria’s Water Scarcity Park Set to Prove Life Can Be Lived Well with Less Water
Water scarcity has turned out to be Syria’s largest problem and this realization seems to have spurred some kind of a noble effort from the government level.
Levi’s Waterless Jeans Cut Down on Water
Buying a pair of jeans was getting to be a difficult choice for the committed environmental activist. The fact that the blue color that is the birthright of a typical pair of jeans, could only be achieved by using almost 42 liters of water during textile production, was indeed a bitter pill to swallow.
The truth – tap water is better than bottled water and better for the environment
Eat This, Not That! took a look at what is found in bottled water. I don't know about the rest of the world, but for Americans and Japanese, what comes out of the tap is just as good if not better for you than what comes in the plastic bottles, and better for the environment, too! No recycling, no plastic, no ...
New York’s Del Posto Restaurant Says NO to Bottled Water
Del Posto, the famous Italian restaurant in New York, has joined the line-up of several restaurants in the city of San Francisco and the state of New York that are steering clear of bottled water. At the Del Posto, which is backed by such restauranteer celebrities as Mario Batali and Joseph Bastianich, diners can share an entree of wild branzino fish ...
Canada mapping out underground water
Canada's scientists are busy mapping the underground water supplies across the country. The scientists want to provide policy makers with info to develop water conservation laws. Image by esprit-de-sel Canada is, for the first time, using such advanced tools as: computer modeling satellite imagery airborne geophysical surveys. The last national mapping study of aquifers was in 1967. The group has been at it since 2003. There are ...
Water for Oil – Japan Has Low Electric Using Desalination Plant
Japan gets almost all of its oil from the Middle East and has nothing to give in return...except water. Ultra dry Middle East needs water, (doesn't everyone?) and must produce it from the salt water nearby. There's a consortium including Hitachi Plant Technologies Ltd. and Toray Industries Inc. that is developing a desalination plant. That's not new news. But the plant ...
Dirty Water, We Need it Clean
"Every day, 1.1 billion people have to wash with, bathe in and drink dirty water. That's the same as the population of North America and Europe. We can't live with that fact. Can you?" [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Mv8pauMKc[/youtube] After seeing this video I understood that there are places on Earth were people don't have the time and the power to think about solar power, gas prices or ...
Kenya’s Renewable Energy Blueprint – KEEP
I am not pretending for a moment that Kenya is the kid and the U. S. or any other 'developed' nation is the adult. It's the other way around. Kenyans have been here much longer than we 'Westerners'. However, the fact that the Kenyan government has a blue print for renewable energy - Kenya Energy Sector Environment Program (KEEP) ...
