Latest Stories in Clean Water - Page 5
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California Schools Now Required To Give Kids Water With Lunch
When I first read the headline of the article on PressDemocrat stating that kids are now to have access to fresh water where they eat their lunches, my jaw dropped a little. Have I been out of school long
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Why (and How) Should we Pick up Dog Waste?
It's a nice day, you're walking along and all of a sudden--squish. You don't even have to look because you know you've really
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Desalination Plants To Hit $87.8 Billion in Investments Over Next 5 Years
Desalination technology -- turning brackish or salt water into fresh water -- has been a hotly debated issue for years. The main problem is that the technology is incredibly energy intensive, and there for
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The Future of Water Technology Highlighted By Finalists for Imagine H2O Competition
The Imagine H2O contest has announced finalists for this year's competition. These ten start-ups are competing for a $100,000 prize plus business and legal support to help get their idea off the ground and into the marketplace. The
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Water Supplies Soaked Up By Oil Industry in California
Extracting and refining oil is a water-costly process. California doesn't have much water to spare, yet it is pouring billions of gallons of this invaluable substance into its oil business. Right now, oil
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Erosion Eating Up South Carolina Beaches
Folly Beach, a South Carolina Beach just outside of Charleston, needs another renourishment project just five years after the last one, according to a recent article in The State.According to the article, the rule for thumb for large
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Southeast US In As Much Water Trouble As Desert Southwest
It's usually the southwestern US that makes the news for its water woes, what with its deserts climates and high populations. However, researchers state that the southeast is in just as much
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What About Water?: The Year In Review
This year has been quite a doozy for water. From spreading smart metering to our water works, to shipping water from Alaska all the way to India, to clever and crazy ideas to help us conserve, down
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Solar Powered "Swater" Concept Collects and Purifies Water In the Desert
Ways to gather water in arid places has grabbed the attention of designers more often lately, and the newest concept to come on the radar is the Swater, by designers Chun Yen Tsao and Hsing-Tan Yang. The idea is a small basin
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Fiji Water Shutting Down Bottling Plant in Fiji... Not.
Yesterday, Fiji Water, one of the iconic brands of bottled water, made rumblings of shutting down their Fiji-based bottling plant after the government announced a plan to bump up the business tax on
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Google Earth Tour Explains Ocean Acidification With Amazing Visuals (Video)
The process of ocean acidification can be a confusing one. Exactly how does the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere change the pH balance in the oceans, and what kinds of issues does it cause? Oceana has created an excellent tour via
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Visible Shower Tank Helps Visualize Water Use
Usually water-saving design concepts for showers are some sort of electronic gadget that makes your water use visible -- by showing how much you're using, how much of an impact you're making on the planet with your water
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Bolivia's Capital City Faces Catastrophic Drought As Lake Titicaca Dries
The word "catastrophic" seems like it should be overkill, but when it comes to drought caused by an increase in global temperatures, that's just what the residents of La Paz, Bolivia's capital city, will
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Water Scarcity Spares Just Two Arab Nations by 2015
We've covered the growing issue of water scarcity around the globe a number of times (including pointing out some interactive maps on the subject). A new report coming from the Arab Forum for Environment and
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Chile Tackles Water Footprint Strategy, Sets New Standards for Measurements
Measuring our water footprint is the first step toward reaching efficiency. More businesses and communities are getting serious about these measurements,
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Thames Beats Out Amazon and Yellow River for Prize
The mighty Thames River, a mess in the 1950's, is back. It was declared biologically dead then and now it has won the esteemed International Thiess River Prize for good river management.
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What is "Evapotranspiration" And How Is It Changing Our Planet?
New research from Oregon State University shows that trends in evapotranspiration is having incredibly significant impacts on everything from our planet's vegetation growth to carbon absorption to
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Is the US Already Past the Point of Peak Water?
Peter Gleick, an expert on water issues at the Pacific Institute, poses a troubling question: are we already past peak water in the US? Compared to areas like Africa, India and China, we seem to
