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NASA Satellites Can Help Farmers Save Massive Amounts of Water
Photo: NASA, public domain. Agriculture 2.0: Doing More With Less Imagine a farmer sitting at the kitchen table or at the wheel of a GPS-controlled tractor, looking at the screen of a iPad or smartphone that shows his fields seen from above with various
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China Spending $30 Billion on Water Conservation Next Year
Knowing that China is hurting for water, it comes as no surprise that the country is setting aside a massive $30 billion for water conservation during 2011. China's rapid growth could be
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Students Create Dirt Cheap Solar Solution for Disinfecting Water
Disinfecting water with the sun is an old idea. But students at University of Washington have come up with a clever way of checking whether or not the water being disinfected is finally ready to drink. Using simple
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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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How Electronics Companies Can Slow China's Water Pollution
One of the major components of gauging how green an electronics manufacturer really is, is watching their supply chain. Earning certifications such as EPEAT or ranking higher on the Greenpeace green electronics
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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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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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US Southwest May Enter Into Permanent Drought-Like Conditions by Mid-Century
If you closely follow the water issues that plague the US southwest, the precipitation predictions for the region, and have a notion of the development patterns there that headline may seem obvious. But if you
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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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Water Supply in CA Town Contaminated with Toxic Chemical Used to Make Explosives
The vast majority of the time, tap water is your best bet for clean, cheap water in the US. Not so in Barstow, CA. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently declared a state of emergency in San Bernadino County
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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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Drought in Amazon Allows Art to Surface after 7,000 Years
Climate change is having an impact on many countries in different ways. In the Maldives the sea is threatening to overcome the islands and in Brazil the Amazon River is drying up.
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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
