A Gift of FreshWater
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Ruth K.Posted
Wed 22 Oct 2008 6:14pm
Canada is blessed with an abundance of freshwater. Our community and others around here were built on waterways as they provided transportation, water supply and power... immigrant. He built a dam across the creek and over the next twenty years established business with a saw mill, grist mill and distillery, all powered by water propelled wheels
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Freshwater please!
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Ruth K.Posted
Wed 22 Oct 2008 6:13pm
Dad sent pictures last week of a well drilling operation on their property in Mexico. Their home is outside the city and the water source has been unreliable. In Mexico... the noise of the drilling, which had gone on for a couple of days. This drill could go through rock, albeit slowly, and they were hoping to find a good source of water soon. (I just
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Fresh drinking water
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Greg T.Posted
Wed 14 Jan 2009 8:39pm
I ran across this article for creating fresh drinking water out of thin air. You can find the article over at newscientist.com scientists have made new discoveries to harvest pure drinking water from dew. It seems like a vast improvement on the idea of a solar still. Hopefully cities in America like Atlanta, Georgia do not have to rely
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A Fresh Look at Water
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Sierra Club ..Posted
Mon 29 Sep 2008 1:04am
Though water covers almost three-fourths of the earth's surface, we can only drink one percent of it. "It's just a tiny sliver on this enormous globe that supports us," says Eleanor Sterling, a museum curator who's made such abstract facts vividly concrete with satellite images of water's global distribution, dioramas of ecosystems that depend
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Water Footprints and Virtual Water
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TimPosted
Mon 27 Apr 2009 11:41pm
in 2002 as a way of measuring the total volume of freshwater used to produce the goods and services consumed by a nation. The water footprint includes the water content of goods..., fresh-water consumption worldwide has more than doubled since World War II to nearly 4,000 cubic kilometers annually and set to rise another 25 percent by 2030, says a 2007 report
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Water Saving Products
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My Green ElementPosted
Wed 15 Oct 2008 9:22pm
in the world is approximately 1.4 billion km 3, of which 97.5% is saltwater and 2.5% is freshwater.
- Of the 35 million km 3 of freshwater on earth, about 24.4 million km 3 are locked up in the form of glacial ice, permafrost, or permanent snow.
- Of all freshwater not locked up in ice caps or glaciers, some 20% is in areas
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Water Problems Worsten
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TimPosted
Mon 27 Apr 2009 11:41pm
disease and malnutrition, chronic hunger.
So far, many countries have held the problem at bay by overusing freshwater from lakes or aquifers, and by importing virtual water... model where it's cheap, cheap, cheap—then unavailable. It's huge because we're trying to grow around the world, and where we want to grow often has issues of freshwaterRead on »
