Tag: Drinking Water - Page 7
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Blue Water Satellite Scans Toxic Algae Blooms From Space
Using satellites helps us monitor everything from animal migrations to forest cover to water supply levels. And now Blue Water Satellite has come up with another perfect use -- monitoring toxic blooms of blue-green algae
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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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Hexavalent Chromium, Erin Brockovich Chemical, Found in 31 of 35 U.S. Cities' Tap Water
Hexavalent chromium, the cancer-causing chemical made famous by the film Erin Brockovich, has been detected in the tap water of 31 of the 35 U.S. cities tested by Environmental Working Group-commissioned studies. That's 89
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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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TEDWomen documentary "Shape What's to Come"
TED launches TEDWomen, its latest in a series of global gatherings, this Tuesday and Wednesday, December 7-8, in Washington, D.C. The inaugural event, called
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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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Rethinking the Home Water System
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt once noted that "civilized people ought to know how to dispose of the sewage in some other way than putting it into the drinking water."
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U.S. Water System Crumbling, Survey Supports Fix
How many of us take clean water for granted in the United States? It comes out of faucet like magic, right? And it's cheap compared to so many other necessities (and luxuries) in our lives. But what about the pipes,
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Nestle vs. Oregon: Battle Heats Up Over Columbia River Gorge
Nestle, the world's top-selling bottled water company, has been trying to win the right to tap between 100 and 166 million gallons of water from Oregon's Columbia River Gorge annually, and wants to justify it as environmentally sound by simply
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NYC Water So Good, Battle to Replicate It Breaks Out in Florida
Why New Yorkers continue to drink bottled water is a mystery. Its quality has been praised all over the place, but that praise has just reached new heights: restaurants in Florida dueling over technology to replicate it.
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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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8 Facts You Didn't Know About Water
Today is a huge day for bloggers and activists around the world: it's Blog Action Day. For those of you that aren't familiar with the event, Blog Action
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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
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All-Salt Medicine Reuses Drugs Floating In Our Water Supply (Video)
Salt is the all-purpose seasoning, so why not the all-purpose pharmaceutical too? Using the drug-laced water supply of San Jose and evaporating out all the water, artists Jon Cohrs and Morgan Levy create All-Salt, an all-purpose
