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and requires far less water, heat and pressure. Those cost savings allow it to turn,


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With the global alarm clock going off over water shortages, land degradation and the lack of arable land to farm on,

In addition to land degradation, there also increasing competition for land and water between urban and industrial users and within the agricultural industry itself between livestock, staple crops, non-food crops and biofuel production.

Podponics containers use only the exact amounts of water nutrients and light a crop needs so they are able to reduce energy consumption

and innovation can be applied directly at the source of the need in any part of the world regardless of soil quality or water availability


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developed a water-carrying device modeled after a biological cell (Idea#22), and opened an arts and science incubator, Le Laboratoire in Paris,

Edible water bottles required a cognitive transformation, whereas orange juice inside an orange-like membrane might be slightly more familiar.


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conserve their water and forests, and establish local gardens, markets, businesses, and community-based food systems.


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Device that harvests water from thin air wins the James Dyson Awardyoung Melbourne-based inventor Edward Linacre has won the 2011 James Dyson Award,

Linacre stole this year's competition with his Airdrop irrigation concept that collects water from thin air.

James Dyson Award) The Airdrop irrigation concept is a low-tech design that uses the simple process of condensation to harvest water from the air.

which water is harvested then. The collected water is stored in an underground tank, ready to be pumped out via subsurface drip irrigation hosing.

The Airdrop design also features an LCD screen displaying water levels, pressure strength, solar battery life and system health.

Utilizing a turbine intake system air is channeled underground through a network of pipin..."The one that I made in the backyard at mum's house was creating about a liter of water a day,

"Linacre told Gizmag. Although the backyard trial was successful on a small scale, Linacre did prove that it could be implemented on a large agricultural scale."

taking water out of the air and irrigating their crops.""The James Dyson Award is an international competition that attracts designs and inventions from young creators all over the world.


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and relaxing by the water The trick with being spontaneous is to do things that your employees wouldn t expect.


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600 litres of water to produce one litre of pure ethanol if it comes from sugar,

900 litres of water if it comes from palm oil. Advances in bioechnology have helped us push food production to its limit.


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Ecotoxicity in surrounding water was two orders of magnitude lower. Thanks to clover and alfalfa, the experimental plots also used 86 percent less synthetic fertilizer.


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¢Built to harvest all of the water and energy from the site;¢¢Smaller and reconfigurable to the needs of the mobile workforce;


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Protecting water pays dividendsas soaring temperatures and rapid urbanization threaten water security, countries are beginning to invest in the protection and preservation of their water sources,

a new report reveals. The efforts-such as planting trees along the shorelines of rivers to prevent soil erosion-are also creating jobs, the report,

or preserve water-friendly features of the landscape, including wetlands, streams and forests that can capture,

like clean water, obtained from healthy watershed ecosystems-by incentivizing the maintenance and improvement of watershed areas.

South africa runs the continent largest water conservation programme, Working for Water, which since its inception in 1995 has employed at least 20,000 people to uproot water-hogging invasive plants such as water hyacinth

and eucalyptus. Studies estimate that the programme has saved South africa more than US$50 billion in avoided costs from invasive plant impacts.

through the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), is now working with private companies in South africa to offset their water consumption oefootprints

and improve their water efficiency by investing in watershed services. Around the world, there are at least 73 new investments in watershed services (IWS) programmes under development.

Greig-Gran and Porras say governments can raise funds from the private sector for payments schemes in other, more indirect ways, directing revenue from taxes on energy and water.

and on improving water sources to strengthen the case for long-term investments in such schemes.

An evaluation by the World bank estimates that 700 million people in 40 countries face water shortages.

they are compared tiny to the estimated $1 trillion per year that will be needed through 2025 to meet water supply and sanitation demands


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and to rate their performance on sensitive issues like the treatment of small-scale farmers, sustainable water and land use, climate change,


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Plants are grown in beds stacked as much as six high by using a mineral-rich water solution


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