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Water Sustainability Flows Through Complex Human-Nature Interactions

Sat, 2012-08-11 22:21 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Homeland Security News Wire - August 10, 2012

The fate of water in China mirrors problems across the world: water is fouled, pushed far from its natural origins, squandered, and exploited; China’s crisis is daunting, though not unique: two-thirds of China’s 669 cities have water shortages, more than 40 percent of its rivers are severely polluted, 80 percent of its lakes suffer from eutrophication — an over abundance of nutrients — and about 300 million rural residents lack access to safe drinking water

In this week’s Science journal, Jianguo “Jack” Liu, director of Michigan State University’s Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, and doctoral student Wu Yang look at lessons learned in China and management strategies that hold solutions for China — and across the world.

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Students and Scientists Gather in Singapore to Discuss Water Problem

Tue, 2012-07-10 14:38 — Kathy Gilbeaux

NTU places water research in the forefront // Source: ntu.edu.sg

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Homeland Security News Wire - July 6, 2012

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AquaSel, A Non-Thermal Brine Concentrator (NTBC)

Mon, 2012-07-09 00:56 — Maeryn Obley

NTBC 3D renderingImage: NTBC 3D rendering

submitted by Albert Gomez

ge-energy.com

GE’s AquaSel system is breakthrough non-thermal desalination technology with extremely high water recovery. It originates from GE’s leading expertise in desalination and zero liquid discharge technologies plus significant research and development.

(VISIT WEBSITE)

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Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us

Fri, 2012-06-22 20:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

A class 2 brine disposal well in western Louisiana near the Texas border. The well sat by the side of the road, without restricted access. (Abrahm Lustgarten/ProPublica)

propublica.org - by Abrahm Lustgarten - June 21, 2012

Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad expanses of the nation's geology as an invisible dumping ground.

No company would be allowed to pour such dangerous chemicals into the rivers or onto the soil. But until recently, scientists and environmental officials have assumed that deep layers of rock beneath the earth would safely entomb the waste for millennia.

There are growing signs they were mistaken.

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UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - Launches Flagship Publication on State of the World's Refugees

Mon, 2012-06-04 20:48 — Kathy Gilbeaux

unhcr.org - May 31, 2012

NEW YORK, United States, May 31 (UNHCR) – UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres warned on Thursday that factors causing mass population flight are growing and over the coming decade more people on the move will become refugees or displaced within their own country.

In comments marking the launch in New York of "The State of the World's Refugees: In Search of Solidarity," Guterres said displacement from conflict was becoming compounded by a combination of causes, including climate change, population growth, urbanization, food insecurity, water scarcity and resource competition.

All these factors are interacting with each other, increasing instability and conflict and forcing people to move. In a world that is becoming smaller and smaller, finding solutions, he said, would need determined international political will.

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LED Research Shines New Light on Ultraviolet Disinfection Technology

Sun, 2012-06-03 16:24 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Lou Elin Dwyer

medcitynews.com - by Frank Vinluan - May 14, 2012

LED lighting isn’t just for illuminating rooms and roads. Someday it could be used to sterilize surgical tools or purify water.

At the right wavelength, ultraviolet light kills microorganisms on surfaces and in water. But the effort to develop new UV disinfection devices that utilize LEDs has been hampered by the semiconductors used to make LEDs.

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Rainwater Harvesting in the Amazon Cleans up Where Oil Left its Mark

Tue, 2012-05-29 23:37 — Corey Watts

submitted by Albert Gomez

Good Environment - www.good.is - May 29, 2012 (Photo by Mitch Anderson)

Oil companies started drilling around Ecuador’s Lago Agrio in 1972. Texaco had found oil here a few years before, in the middle of the Amazon, and for decades the oil industry harvested the oil gushing from the ground. Chevron took over when it bought Texaco, and Ecuador’s state oil company took over from Chevron. All the while, the drilling operations were pouring pollution in the area’s air and water—so much pollution that last year an Ecuadorian judge ordered Chevron to pay a total $18 billion to a group of 30,000 indigenous people, represented by a coalition of lawyers from Ecuador and North America. 

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Video - The Atlanta Summit on Sustaining U.S. Leadership in Global Health & Water

Mon, 2012-05-21 23:32 — Kathy Gilbeaux

csis.org - May 21, 2012

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Little of Earth’s Water is Usable in Everyday Life

Thu, 2012-05-10 21:01 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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Picture of Earth showing if all Earth's water (liquid, ice, freshwater, saline) was put into a sphere it would be about 860 miles (about 1,385 kilometers) in diameter. Diameter would be about the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah to Topeka, Kansas, USA.
Credit: Illustration by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Howard Perlman, USGS.

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Homeland Security News Wire - May 9, 2012

Very little of Earth’s water is usable in everyday life; about 96 percent of water on Earth is saline; of the total freshwater, over 68 percent is locked up in ice and glaciers; another 30 percent of freshwater is in the ground; rivers are the source of most of the fresh surface water people use, but they only constitute about 300 mi3 (1,250 km3), about 1/10,000th of one percent of total water

How much water exists on, in, and above Earth?

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Thirsty? Ditch the Plastic Bottle With This Drinking Fountain App

Thu, 2012-04-26 10:25 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Image Credit: Flickr – Shannon Kringen

submitted by Albert Gomez

good.is - by Brittany Shoot - April 25, 2012

The WeTap app, currently available for Android smartphones, allows users to bookmark drinking fountains using GPS and Google Maps, rate the quality of the faucets, and share the news with other users. Using an early prototype of the WeTap app, environmental activist Evelyn Wendel recruited students from UCLA’s Institute of Environmental Studies and set to work mapping drinking fountains on her alma mater’s campus. Then, she extended her reach to cover the state of California. She’s since set her sights on mapping the entire United States. And after partnering with the OpenMaps project in the U.K., the project is flourishing on two continents.

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