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Canada Takes Water Awareness Lead

Scott James — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:46:30 +0000

Say what you will about Canada being up on the latest trends in fashion or music, but our neighbor to the North may be on the verge of setting the course in national water management policy. Recently ministers from across the country met to talk about how best to protect and preserve Canada’s water from [...]

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The Other Coastal Problem: Rising Seas

Scott James — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:36:18 +0000

Rising sea levels will have an effect on coastal cities, and while the BP Gulf oil leak is getting the press these days, sea level rise from climate change will have an even more long-term and potentially dramatic effect. With the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicting a 7 – 23 inch rise by [...]

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Is Traditional Water Management the Future?

Scott James — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:53:48 +0000

The world’s water situation is only going to get more challenging in the coming years. There will be more people a water supply that is increasingly polluted and often distributed with aging infrastructure. Clearly we will need to embrace new methods of water management- is it possible that those methods have been around for thousands [...]

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Is Climate Change Genocide?

Scott James — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:39:31 +0000

Climate change and rising temperatures are widely believed to be causing the retreat of glaciers and lower river flows. According to researchers, that is what’s happening to the Andean glaciers. Evo Morales, President of Boliva, believes there should be an international court of environmental justice- and many Bolivians agree with him. In fact, Boliva’s UN [...]

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Rivers in the Desert: Solar-Powered Desalination

Scott James — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:32:57 +0000

Water crises and water shortages are increasing around the world- at this point there are 1.2 billion people in 40 countries without reliable access to clean water. But what if there were a way to use the sun to turn oceans into drinking water? IBM and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), the [...]

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Plants Conserve 44% More Water With Active Enzyme

Scott James — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:15:24 +0000

A team of biologists identified plant enzymes last month that help plants utilize raised levels of carbon dioxide to more efficiently use water. The team, led by biology professor Julian Schroeder at UC- San Diego, discovered protein censors that control the response of pores on the leaves of plants. By adding an active enzyme to [...]

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Will Smart Water Grids Become a $16.3 Billion Industry by 2020?

Scott James — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:00:56 +0000

If you read this site you know that water is a major issue and how we relate to and manage our water could be the defining issue of the 21st century. Water innovation is just now starting to build buzz and attract investors, with venture capital still not flush and technologies very much in their [...]

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Will Yemen’s Capital Run Out of Water Growing a Drug?

Scott James — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:12:15 +0000

Where once there were 180 wells, now there are 80…What if an entire CITY ran out of drinking water? Sanaa, Yemen, the country’s capital, is dealing with a massive water shortage. The World Bank’s Sanaa Water Basin Management Project says the city could run out of drinking water in just 15 years. Some say a [...]

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