Water in the News
In Mexico City, Harvesting Water from the Sky Image: Flickr/Vovan UK
From PRI - The World: "Faced with chronic water shortages, many residents of Mexico City aren’t waiting for the city government to fix things. They’re turning to the sky." Read and listen to this report on the growing practice of rainwater harvesting. |
The Global Water Crisis
The world's fresh water supply is facing a major crisis in the near future. Click the image above to see the full infographic of surprising facts about our global water supply. |
Peruvian Billboard Converts Humidity to Drinking Water
From Fastcoexist.com via The Cultureist: This fascinating water project in Lima, Peru was developed by students. They created a billboard that filters humidity to create clean water for the water-starved city--and also advertises for their engineering school. |
Antianxiety drugs flushed into water may be making fish fearless Photo: Flickr/Jurvetson
From Scientific American: "Antianxiety drugs may be making fish more aggressive. New laboratory tests reveal that even extremely low concentrations of the calming drugs benzodiazepines—more commonly known as Valium and Xanax, among others—cause fish to become less timid and to feed faster, among other effects." |
**For more news about water, also see our story in the "People" section on Boyan Slat, a teenager who devised a potential solution to remove plastic from ocean waters.
Oslo, Norway Copes with a Shortage of GarbageFrom the New York Times: "Oslo, a recycling-friendly place where roughly half the city and most of its schools are heated by burning garbage — household trash, industrial waste, even toxic and dangerous waste from hospitals and drug arrests — has a problem: it has literally run out of garbage to burn."
Guess where they're thinking of importing garbage from? |
Image: Flickr/Mac Jewell
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“From an environmental point of view, it’s a huge problem.There is pressure to produce more and more waste, as long as there is this overcapacity.” |
For Many Maasai, Climate Change May Mean the End of Traditional WaysClimate change is just the latest of many threats to the traditional culture of the pastoralist Maasai people of East Africa. But for many, it's the one that's finally forcing them to abandon their old ways, as repeated bouts of extreme weather lead them to give up their cattle.
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Australian bride marries in $36 wedding dress made of recycled bread bag clipsWe've all seen those square plastic tags on loaves of bread. Australian designer Stephanie Watson decided that she would put them to good use; a decade ago, she began collecting them when she and her future groom were in their teens. They joked that they would marry when she had collected enough to make a wedding dress.
FInd out how everyone chipped in to help, and how this remarkable dress became a reality. |