treehugger.com - 3/6/2009
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Every day, 500,000 gallons get sucked up from a limestone basin in northern Florida by the Nestle Water Co. Every hour of each of those days, the water fills 102,000 plastic bottles at a nearby bottling plant. Nestle, and the 22 other bottled water companies in Florida, ...
Water 'more important than oil' businesses told
guardian.co.uk 2/27/2009 — Looming water crisis could unravel world economy without radical action, investors told Dwindling water supplies are a greater risk to businesses than oil running out, a report for investors has warned. Among the industries most at risk are ...
Eco Arts: Give Plastic the Boot
ecofriend.org 2/27/2009 —
Eco Factor: Structures created from recycled plastic bottles encourage youth to kick single use plastic water bottles.
Drinking bottled water might keep you in good shape, but the millions of water bottles discarded every day in landfills are ...
Businesses Warned to Heed Potential for Water Scarcity
environmentalleader.com 3/3/2009 — Too few businesses and investors are taking into consideration the potential for economic upheaval if water resources become as scarce as predicted, according to a recent report from CERES.
Industry has traditionally taken for granted the ...
Solar Hot Water First. Then Photovoltaics.
treehugger.com 3/2/2009 —
The solar power subsidy is an equal opportunity employer; according to Brian's post, "any solar system you purchase this year is 30% percent off, thanks to the government (or at least, you'll get a tax rebate for that much). Solar powered water ...
Greenwashing H20: WTF is ‘Sustainable Water’?
ecoble.com 3/4/2009 — Image by Michel Filion via Flickr
Water…it’s pure, it’s natural, and it’s abundant - right?
Well, not exactly. While nearly 75% of the world is covered with water, only about 3% is fit for human consumption - and two-thirds of that is found in glaciers and icecaps. ...
Car washes: water-savers or wasters?
supereco.com 3/5/2009 —
We're going to have to scrub this misconception clean: the car wash is not the eco-devil. Yeah, we know what you were thinking—all that machinery, all that power, all those icky-sweet chemicals and the gallons and gallons of water swooshing down the drain ... But put down your ...
PLAY PUMP: The Merry-Go-Round Water Pump!
inhabitots.com 3/5/2009 — It's no secret that access to clean water is one of the most fundamental requirements for healthy individuals and thriving communities. The PlayPump system is bringing clean water into the hardest hit regions of Sub-Saharan Africa. There's only one ...
Human actions threaten Dead Sea levels
redorbit.com 3/5/2009 — United Press International: A German study suggests human water consumption is causing an alarming drop in Dead Sea water levels, with serious environmental consequences. Shahrazad Abu Ghazleh and colleagues at the University of Technology in ...
The Greenest Home Cleaner: Simply Water (and E-Cloth) —
Eco Child's Play
I’ve been poor, dirt poor, caretaking a small cabin in the woods working on a basil farm . During these slim economic times, I discovered that water, just water, was an effective cleaner. Now that I am a little more affluent and have stainless steel appliances, water is once again my ...
What Are You Doing to Manage Your Water Needs? —
La Marguerite
It has been more than a week since my last post. I have been very busy working on Terraqualo™ , a new venture designed to help farmers manage their water use more efficiently. Not a day goes by, without yet another report on the growing risks posed by the increasing scarcity of water. ...
Watch Flow, then March for Water —
green LA girl
California’s officially in a drought emergency , and World Water Day’s coming up on March 22 , so Angelenos are taking action — by screening a film!
An award-winning documentary film, that is. Flow (For Love of Water) , described as an “investigation into what experts ...
Hot or Not? Navy Showers —
Re-Nest
Since it's Kitchen & Bathroom month here, we're thinking a lot about water conservation. Because we don't have a garden, the majority of our water usage takes place in those two rooms.
We're always trying to use less water by taking shorter showers . However, we haven't yet taken the real ...
5 Water Solutions That Could Change the World! —
Planetsave
Having grown up in the beautiful Chicagoland area in the 80’s my water needs were strictly as follows: Need #1: Water from hose to power clown-face sprinkler, fill water balloons, and hose off muddy dirt-bike/self, Need #2: Water from faucet to occasionally brush teeth and occasionally make ...
TAP'dNY Bottles & Sells New York City Tap Water, In New York —
TreeHugger
Image credit:TAP'dNY
The bottled water company TAP'dNY is bottling New York tap water for sale in New York. From their website : " We offer an honest and local alternative to thirsty New Yorkers, giving them a smarter choice: to drink their own (award winning) water. "
They have enough ...
Drought ravaged California faces water rationing —
Ecoearth.info Blog
Edie: Residents of the drought-stricken American state of California are facing a water clampdown. The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has capped this year's allocation of water to State Water Project (SWP) contractors, which deliver to more than 25 million residents and more than 750,000 ...
2009 Tankless Water Heaters Review —
Re-Nest
I've had my tankless water heater for little under a year and I'm still in love. Though the installation was involved, the savings on my energy bill and convenience of unlimited hot water when we have visitors has been well worth it. Metaefficient has put together some information for those ...
ADB to intensify Asian water security study —
Ecoearth.info Blog
Malaysia Sun: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has commissioned a second edition of its Asian Water Development Outlook (AWDO) in the run up to the Asia-Pacific Water Summit in 2010. AWDO 2010 will focus on how countries in the region are coping with a wide range of water security issues that ...
Climate & water - Feb 28 —
Energy Bulletin -
How to survive the coming century Polar research reveals new evidence of global environmental change Adapting to water woes Las Vegas running out of water means dimming Los Angeles lights
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Businesses urged to "wake up" to water risks —
Ecoearth.info Blog
Business Green: Global water shortages are a greater and more imminent threat to businesses than oil supplies running out, according to a major new report from the Ceres group of sustainable investors which urges firms and investors to undertake water risk assessments as a matter of urgency. The ...
Grey Water Toilet System by Alison Norcott —
Re-Nest
We’re all about creative and smart ways to reuse water here at Re-Nest. Grey water systems in homes make so much sense, but are often met with resistance from city officials. Student, Alison Norcot, has devised a super smart water reuse system to resolve this issue that uses waste shower water ...
What’s Wrong with Bottled Water? —
greenstrides
It may be convenient to carry a bottle of water when on the go, but there is a huge impact on the environment that many are not aware of. For starters, we use millions of barrels of oil and billions of gallons of water every year just to make the plastic water bottles. Plus, a [...]
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Drinking bottled water is drinking oil —
Resilience Science
ScienceNOW reports a new paper by Peter Gleick and Heather Cooley in Environmental Research Letters that compares the energy use of bottled and tapwater:
… From start to finish, bottled water consumes between 1100 and 2000 times more energy on average than does tap water.
Bottled water ...
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