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Archives for February, 2009

UNICEF: World Water Day

Bloomberg Reports- Las Vegas Running out of Water

Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) — On a cloudless December day in the Nevada desert, workers in white hard hats descend into a 30- foot-wide shaft next to Lake Mead.
As they’ve been doing since June, they’ll blast and dig straight down into the limestone surrounding the reservoir that supplies 90 percent of Las Vegas’s water. In September, [...]

UNICEF: World Water Day 2008: Zambia children teach hygiene

Water Art - Liquid Sculpture

The fine art of water….
Check out this artist who has the taste of liquid sculpture. Martin Waugh is often asked about the technical process of creating this Liquid Sculpture images. In his words:
What you see on this site are high-resolution photographs of liquids in motion, captured with high-speed flash photography.
I use Photoshop to clean up the [...]

Youth Noise - Drop Campaign

 
The Goal of DROP is to amplify the voices of young people in raising awareness of our water crisis, build a strong coalition based movement, and find unique and innovative solutions to fixing it”
From the East Village to East Africa, there is one issue that clearly transcends these disparate communities:  the crucial need for clean water.  [...]

Reuse & reduce, wine bottles

Reuse - your empty wine and glass bottles.  A simple way to help keep things greener and reduce the amount of waste is to be creative with your glass jars/ empty bottles and cans. 
The easiest transformation a wine bottle can take requires almost no transformation at all. A water decanter is one option, but also, [...]

World Day of Sea Mammals Protection

 Happy Mammal protection Day! 

World Day of Sea Mammals Protection is being celebrated on February 19 of each year. This is a day of protection of all sea mammals and other living organisms of seas and oceans.
 
This day has been celebrated since 1986, when the International Whaling Commission (additional information is available at: www.iwcoffice.org) has introduced [...]

Water Quality Worldwide

Some Water Saving tips and ideas

When your saving water you save on energy and money! It’s easy to think of water as cheaper than electricity, since power bills often dwarf water bills. But water is much more valuable because it’s finite — we can get endless electricity from renewable sources like wind and the sun, but we’re stuck with the [...]

Stimulus Bill Includes $7 Billion for Water Infrastructure

The House and Senate approved HR 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, on February 13.  The President is expected to sign the legislation on Tuesday, February 17.  The $787 billion package of tax cuts and government spending includes approximately $150 billion in emergency funding for public works infrastructure, including over $7 billion for drinking [...]