Latest Stories in Clean Water - Page 10
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The Home Swimming Pool. Full Of Empty Promise?
With the northern hemisphere approaching summer, this melancholy video of skateboarders repurposing swimming pools on foreclosed properties, seemed an apt reminder of the perils inherent in "me-too"
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DIY Seawater Desalination by Delicious Lady and Grandson (Video)
Directed by David Valero for the Spanish eco-short-films festival La Luciernaga fundida, this video shows how a grandmother and grandson desalinate seawater at home.
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Plastic Gets There First - Surfing Legends Say They've Found Plastic Even On Remotest Beaches (Video)
There are just so many examples of the principle of there really being no 'away' when it comes to plastic waste. The great state- and small country-sized floating plastic garbage patches in the Pacific and Atlantic are gaining publicity, but here's
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United by Blue, A New Ocean Conservation Venture
United By Blue is a new start up, which will leverage sales of organic cotton T-shirts and tote bags to coordinate ocean beach clean-ups around America. For each shirt or bag purchased one pound of marine debris is
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No More Baptisms in the Jordan River - Expected to Run Dry by 2011
Even the most famous and admired places aren't immune to the problems of abuse and pollution - the Jordan River being a prime example as it's expected to run dry by 2011 due to overexploitation, pollution and lack of
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More Expensive Water? Experts Say a Price Hike Is a Must
Water is one of the most undervalued resources we have. Especially in the developed world, we pay a fraction of the true cost of water in order to have the required resource run from our taps. But really, a barrel of
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Untapped: Is Water Underpriced?
Best known for chase scenes in movies, the concrete embankments of the LA River destroyed wetlands and disrupted migratory birds' flights
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Could Prickly Pear Cactus Be The Secret to Cheap, Clean Water?
Millions of people lack access to clean water globally, and that lack of access - or rather, access to unsafe drinking water - kills as many as 15 people per minute. We have many options for filtering water, but a
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Women Stand Up Paddle Hawaiian Islands for Oceanic Research
The Algalita Marine Research Foundation are the folk who continue to enlighten the world on the impact that plastics pollution is having on marine life and our oceans. It is their groundbreaking work (can you say
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Rachelle Begley Tells The World's Most Un-Funny Water Joke
When it comes to the water crisis, there's little to laugh about. And Rachelle Begley hit humorlessness on its head with this joke. She's not the only celebrity trying to bring water issues to everyone's attention. Check out some of our other favorite
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Ocean Saltiness Shows Global Warming Is Intensifying Our Water Cycle
After pulling data from 1.6 million salinity profiles and data from the international Argo Program - a massive fleet of small oceanic robotic probes that gather information used by 50 research and operational agencies from 26 countries - scientists
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Rainwater Harvesting In Venice Will Help Keep It From Sinking
There are farms in the Venice Lagoon producing local food, and like the city, they are sinking as the water from the aquifer below is pumped out. This farm used to irrigate with well and municipal water, but artists
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UK Imports Most Its Water, Including From Places Suffering Water Shortages
According to a new report released by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Engineering the Future working group, the bulk of water consumed by UK citizens is imported, mainly in the form of other items that have a
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How Much Hydration Do You Really Need?
A few months ago my wife and daughter were visiting the Art Gallery of Ontario and checking their bags. A woman ahead was
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US Rivers and Streams Heating Up - Temperatures Rising Annually
A new study by researchers at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and published in Yale 360 shows that the ocean isn't the only body of water with a temperature on the hike. America's rivers
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Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It (Interview)
Go to your tap and turn it on. Most likely, the second you turn the faucet handle, water gushes out. That alone might make you think there's not a water crisis happening right now in America. Or at least that if there is, it's
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When InfoGraphics Go Bad and Why We Like You
A few weeks ago to help bring awareness to World Water Day, we posted an infographic in a post titled Of All The Water in the World, Just 0.08% Makes It To Our Faucets (Infographic), with the goal being to illustrate the limited amount of clean, fresh
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China, Not Drought, Getting the Blame for Water Shortages
The worst drought in at least 50 years has hit China but it's not a lack of rainfall that's getting the brunt of the blame from Chinese farmers and neighboring countries. Rather than focus on the seemingly clear scientific
