Tag: Water Crisis - Page 4
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Be a Hero for World Water Day!
Today is World Water Day, an occasion to remind the world about this most precious and vital of resources. Sadly, too many people still lack access to clean water for themselves and their animals.
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Portable Rainwater Harvesting and Filtration Prototype Supplies Clean Drinking Water
A prototype rainwater filtration system is designed to be highly portable and rapidly deployable, providing potable water just about anywhere.
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3D Street Painting Shows Just How Toxic Laundry Water Is (Video)
To raise awareness for a new Greenpeace report on hazardous chemicals used in textile manufacturing, artist-activists took to the street in Amsterdam.
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Study Finds Fracking Poses Air Pollution Health Risks, But EPA Still Denying Groundwater Impacts
Air pollutants monitored near natural gas drilling sites were measured at five times federal standards.
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Donate Your Social Media Voice for World Water Week
Help amplify the message of the global water crisis by lending your social media updates to World Water Day 2012
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Personal Water Filter Bottle Helps Fund Fight Against Global Water Crisis
A new refillable water filter bottle helps you not only fight against plastic bottle waste, but also helps to fund sustainable water projects.
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Chip In to Help Fund a Portable, Solar-Powered Device to Provide Safe Drinking Water
The portable HYQUATOR device could provide safe drinking water by killing pathogens, powered by the sun.
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World Water Forum: Fight Against Privatization Continues & UN Says to Value Ecosystems, Not Just Agriculture
"A narrow definition of 'water productivity' considers only the value of agricultural produce, but doesn't put a price on lost drinking water, reduced fish populations, parched pastures, or shrinking groundwater reservoirs."
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How Carbon Offsets Can Help Provide Clean Water for All
A UK offset company launches a world-first partnership to finance Life-Straw water purifiers in Africa.
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Global Water Supplies Threatened by Climate Change, Increased Demand
A report from the United Nations stresses that increased demand for fresh water, coupled with the effects of climate change, is threatening the world's water supplies.
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Lenny Kravitz Wants You to Buy Tap Water For a Cause
The rocker/actor has signed up for UNICEF's Tap Project, encouraging the purchase of restaurant tap water to provide clean water to children around the world.
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Human Prejudices Threaten Freshwater Biodiversity
New species found in disappearing arctic freshwaters highlight the threat to these underprotected ecosystems
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Miracle Tree Seeds and Sand Produce Inexpensive Clean Water
A substance from the so-called miracle tree can help to purify drinking water sustainably and inexpensively.
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Help a Massive Public Art Project Paint NYC's Water Tanks
Shop at Whole Foods on March 1st to help fund a summer art project drawing attention to issues of water conservancy.
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New Waterworld Discovered, Smaller Than Uranus (Photos)
This new super-Earth is a great discovery. It just needs a better name than GJ1214b.
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Smart Water Meter Sends You Info via iPad and Smartphone
A concept for a water meter would communicate water usage by sending information to a computer, smartphone or tablet.
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Agriculture Consumes 92% of Freshwater Used Globally - US Leads Per Capita Consumption
Where does all that water go? A new study from the Netherlands checks the flow.
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Floating Washing Machine Uses Dry Ice to Clean Clothes in Minutes
A concept washing machine is silent and doesn't use any soap or water. But liquid nitrogen and levitation are involved.
