Water

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What Costs More Than Gas, Is Potentially Polluted, and Puts Chemicals In Your Kids?

Recently a dozen high school students in California were taken to hospitals after getting sick from drinking Aquafina bottled water.

New York, NY

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PlaNYC on Water Quality

New York City's biggest water quality problem can be described with a three letter acronym: CSO. It stands for Combined Sewage Overflows.

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The Watercone: One Serving Per Day, No Pumps, Filters or Batteries Required

According to the 2nd UN World Water Development Report , one fifth of the world's population lacks access to safe drinking water.

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Should Access to Clean Water Be a Human Right?

Can anyone really own water? And more importantly, should they? This is the central question of the documentary film Flow (For Love of Water).

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Raising Water Productivity

With water shortages emerging as a constraint on food production growth, the world needs an effort to raise water productivity similar to the one that nearly tripled land productivity during the last half of the twentieth century.

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Water, Water Everywhere...

"...., and nary a drop to drink", wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

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A Bottled Water Solution

Environmental Guru Paul Hawken wrote that we ought to “design a system where...doing good is like falling off a log" (Ecology of Commerce)

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Green Bottled Water?

In The Shaky Ground of Sustainable Development, Environmental historian Donald Worster worried that in the partnership between ecological sustainability and development “it will be 'development' that makes most of the decisions and 'sustainability' will come trotting along.

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Water Footprints Make a Splash

If the full water requirements of a morning roast are calculated - farm irrigation, bean transportation, and the serving of the coffee - one cup requires 140 liters of water.