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Tue, 2011-11-01 23:40 — mdmcdonald
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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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Direct Drinking Water Recycling Could Prevent Floods

Fri, 2012-04-20 20:53 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Homeland Security News Wire - April 18, 2012

The use of a more streamlined process to recycle wastewater could have saved Brisbane from severe flooding in 2011 and mitigated recent flood risks in NSW, a leading water expert says

Direct potable reuse (DPR) of wastewater could free up billions of liters of water from reservoirs around Australia, giving cities a greater buffer to capture rainwater and control major flooding events, says Dr. Stuart Khan, an environmental engineer at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Water Research Center.

Current plans for water recycling in Australia generally involve Indirect Potable Reuse (IPR), in which reclaimed water is treated to a high standard and then returned to rivers, lakes and aquifers, where it mixes with environmental waters before being re-extracted for further treatment.

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New Initiative Supports National Sanitation Planning

Wed, 2012-04-04 00:41 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Gigi Pomerantz

Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) will soon launch a new initiative to help off-track countries meet their WASH goals. The National Planning for Results Initiative (NPRI) aims to pool donor support to develop in-country planning capacity. SWA announced the initiative during their session on National Sanitation Planning at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseilles. The official launch of the NPRI will take place at the upcoming SWA High Level Meeting in April this year.

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Water
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A Nano Method to Clean Polluted Water

Sat, 2012-02-25 10:28 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Homeland Security News Wire - February 21, 2012

Decontaminating polluted waste water costs millions, but a new discovery by scientists at the University of Brighton could result in huge savings as well as delivering safer, cleaner water

Decontaminating polluted waste water costs millions, but a new discovery by scientists at the University of Brighton could result in huge savings as well as delivering safer, cleaner water.

The research, recently published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, represents a significant shift in scientists’ understanding of chemistry. Mercury is a serious contaminant so this breakthrough could save millions of pounds.

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Six Key Solutions for Pro-Poor WASH Financing

Tue, 2012-02-21 23:18 — Kathy Gilbeaux

 

submitted by Gigi Pomerantz

 by gbastinwsup - Sanitation Updates - February 20, 2012

Financing water and sanitation improvements for the very poor remains a major challenge over large areas of the globe.

In the lead-up to World Water Forum 2012, sector specialists throughout the world have been asked to report specific solutions for addressing this challenge. Based on these concrete examples, IRC and WSUP today propose six key solutions for pro-poor WASH finance.

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Video - Dr. Upmanu Lall - Water Shortages

Fri, 2011-12-30 22:57 — Kathy Gilbeaux
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Agriculture
Drought
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Will the Next War Be Fought Over Water?

Fri, 2011-12-30 22:49 — Kathy Gilbeaux

by Megan Erickson - bigthink.com - December 23, 2011

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Searching for Water in an Untapped Source: the Air

Thu, 2011-11-17 00:02 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Albert Gomez

by Zak Stone - good.is - November 14, 2011

      

As climate change and the needs of 7 billion humans increase demands on the global water supply, the pressure is on to come up with ways to squeeze water from a stone—or at least from the air. The Airdrop is a new gadget that steps up to the challenge by helping farmers in severely dry regions source water for irrigation systems by harvesting moisture that's evaporated into the ether. Edward Linnacre, the engineering student behind the project, won this year's James Dyson Award for creativity in engineering design for his low-tech solution to a grave problem.

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Safe Water and a Toilet -- Is That Too Much to Ask... for 2.5 Billion People? (Includes Video Link)

Wed, 2011-11-02 17:55 — Kathy Gilbeaux

by Matt Damon and Gary White - huffingtonpost.com - November 1, 2011

       

By the time you finish reading this paragraph, one more child will have died from something that's been preventable for over a century. Nearly 40 percent of the world's population is still unable to secure a safe glass of water or access a basic toilet. While we continue to rally around the goal of ensuring safe water and sanitation for all, the real question we are left asking ourselves: how do we truly confront this in a way that results in realizing our vision within our lifetime?

Even today, as solutions are known and available, lack of access to safe water and sanitation continues to claim more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.

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The Sky Is Falling In

Tue, 2011-11-01 23:51 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Theresa Bernardo

by Cathy Buckle - cathybuckle.com - October 29, 2011

The chat in the queue at a government hospital Outpatients department this week was about the searing heat that has been beating down on the country in the last few days. The extremely high temperatures scorching Zimbabwe have been the national talking point as day after day we’ve looked up into dazzling blue skies without even a whisp of cloud. One woman in the hospital queue said that God must have dropped the sun, letting it fall down lower in the sky. People laughed and her words made me think of Chicken Licken, Turkey Lurkey and all their mates who were sure the sky was falling in! Someone else in the hospital queue said that this heat was a sign from the ancestors: a warning of something, although no one volunteered what. The dreaded word on everyone’s lips is ‘drought.’ Memories of hunger and starvation are still very fresh in our minds although the hunger in our recent past was caused more by political mis-governance and negligence than by weather.

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