Antarctic ice offers a remedy.”
read more: Terra Daily
Monthly Archive for February, 2010
“The WMO regards drinking water shortages among principal obstacles to sustainable development. Even now, one third of humanity experiences permanent water shortages. Two thirds will share the plight by 2025 if the trend persists.
Antarctic ice offers a remedy.”
Antarctic ice offers a remedy.”
Photo retrieved from: LA Times
“When California water officials look into the future, many of them see Australia: a vast, arid continent that has been suffering through drought for more than a decade. Severe shortages have prompted Australia to implement strict water-saving measures throughout the country. It has required residents to use less water in their homes, caused government to build large-scale desalination plants and led farmers to implement drip irrigation systems.
“Australia, it seems, could offer a model of how to adapt in California, where, despite this weekend’s rains, the state remains in a third year of drought — a drought many water officials expect not only will continue but continue to be exacerbated by a growing population and climate change considerations
“The past is no longer a guide to water management,” said Bradley Udall, director of western water assessment for the University of Colorado at Boulder. “Climate theory models all point us in one direction, and that is a future with less water. We need to think here in the U.S. about how to deal with that now, not later.”
read more: Los Angeles Times
“We in Europe need to get our act together on adaptation (to climate change) in the same way that we are leading on mitigation”
read more: Terra Daily
Between April 1, 2008, and March 31, 2009, Massey violated its effluent limits at its various operations at least 971 times, and accrued 12,977 days of violation during that 12-month period. The U.S. government’s lawsuit against Massey, which resulted in the $20 million settlement, alleged more than 60,000 days of violations over a six-year period, or about 10,000 days of violations per year.
read more: kftc
Klose is one of several scientists who are pondering the possibility that last May’s 7.9-magnitude earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province, which left 80,000 dead, could also have had a man-made trigger, this time in the form of the Zipingpu Dam.
read more: Earthquakes
“Basically what we’d be saying is, ‘Let’s dam all of Patagonia, so that we can have enough electricity to keep digging holes for mines and destroy the north.’ It is just destruction fostering more destruction.”
Read more: Patagonia
“The relatively modest rehabilitation of the Inga dams and transmission lines has already run into serious problems. Around 2002, $110 million that the World Bank supposedly spent on Congo’s electricity sector went missing.”
Read More: Huffington Post
Four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and Northern California will be removed under an agreement that ends decades of fighting between fishermen, farmers, environmental and Native American groups over water and fishing rights.via: New York Times
Utilizing rainwater runoff is a double bonus for homeowners, both in environmental and financial terms. It reduces the amount of water consumed from the municipal system, and it lessens the strain on wastewater treatment facilities that must process water after it flows down the drain. A rain barrel is great for small-scale applications like a flower garden, and now there is an option for large-scale rainwater collection without the need for a traditional cistern: the Rainwater Pillow.
Via: Metaefficient
Water Number: $4 a bottle. In the latest skirmish in the war on tap water, the sports arena that hosts the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team — with the lovely name of the Quicken Loans Arena concession — has removed its drinking water fountains. The only way for thirsty fans to get water now is to wait in line at the concessions counter for a free small cup or pay $4 for bottled water or try to drink water from the bathroom faucets.Read more: War on Tap Water
* Water shortages risk triggering conflicts* But world can look to Indus, Mekong for cooperation
read more at: Reuters
The highest goodness resembles water
Water greatly benefits myriad things without contention
It stays in places that people dislike
Therefore it is similar to Tao
Water greatly benefits myriad things without contention
It stays in places that people dislike
Therefore it is similar to Tao
Dwelling at the right place
Heart with great depth
Giving with great kindness
Words with great integrity
Governing with great administration
Handling with great capability
Moving with great timing
Because it does not contend
It is therefore beyond reproach
water gives itself to everything without protest. Like water, we do not engage in petty squabbles, because our only wish is to be of service.
From a translation of the Tao Te Ching by Derek Lin, published by Skylight Illuminations
scary stuff:
The World Health Organization states that one fifth of the world’s population (more than 1.1 billion people) live in areas where water is physically scarce. By 2025 the UN estimates 1.8 billion people will live in countries or regions suffering from absolute water scarcity – meaning water demand by all users cannot be fully met by available supplies.
read more at: International Water Management Institute
The Dead Sea in Jordan is shrinking at an alarming rate – a development that has led to the creation of some 3,000 sinkholes along the sea’s coasts.The sea has shrunk by a third since the 1960s when its major water source – the River Jordan – was diverted for upstream projects in Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.
But for many people, the projects have backfired and the farmers who work near the sea say the once verdant and fertile land has become increasingly barren.
Al Jazeera: Land Sinking as Dead Sea Shrinks
FindaSpring.com is a community database of natural springs in North America (and the world!).
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Proposed law would apply to new home-building, larger developments and some redevelopment projects to prevent runoff from reaching the ocean. A builders group has voiced some objections.
read more: Los Angeles might require rainwater capture – latimes.com
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