and thus water footprint numbers must be considered in the context of the local watershed. The focus of the Coca-cola report is on water footprint assessments of the following:
Like other materials, laminated wood can be shipped across continents and oceans. But that, said SOM s Brian Lee,
a Chicago developer that is turning a 500-acre industrial site on Lake michigan into a new residential and retail community.
though Woodbury said one would fit in with the Lakeshore project) will have to convince local officials to drastically change their building codes.
In 1875, the forest around Walker Lake north of Flagstaff, Ariz. was open with abundant grass cover.
Walker Lake photos, 1875, by John Hillers, 2003, by Neil Weintraub; Timberguide screenshot, TNC
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Sea level rise is expected to force millions of Bangladeshis living along its coast to seek drier ground,
They may degrade rather quickly in sea water. And they release dangerous chemicals like BPA as they do so.
who 10 years ago discovered The Great Garbage Patch, a section of garbage-strewn ocean larger than Texas killing wildlife between California and Hawaii.
INTTRA, an e-commerce platform for the ocean freight industry, recently put together some estimates of how much paper gets saved as a result of e-commerce.
INTTRA says that ocean freight providers alone have saved potentially 25,000 trees annually as a result of using its e-commerce network.
It s an island in the Hudson river near Albany. It has a hydroplant about a mile from us,
and when we have really heavy storms we have sewer overflow into the Potomac and Anacostia rivers.
and the dried up rivers, there are other economic implications of the dryness. Stocks continue to plummet in the hydropower industry.
Explain why phosphorus becomes such a problem in our waterways. It s a basic nutrient,
when you get too much of it in a waterway. It leads to algae that grows everywhere.
The waterways become oxygen-deficient, and that has a negative effect on all animal life.
from where it can easily be washed into the waterways. What is the level of understanding that the public has about these environmental issues?
In the Great lakes area, we ve conducted forums in major cities to educate people about lawn care
What if you sell these fish to somebody else who wants to raise them in open ocean pen systems
You can use river water, certainly well water, but when you start getting into lower grade water,
And there are a lot of plants in the U s. on the sea taking advantage of that. But there's also the environmental concern in putting warmer water back into the ocean--the long-term fate of the ecology of the ocean.
That's an issue. Smartplanet: Let's get back to your three points: technology, economics, policy. What can we do on Capitol hill?
while daydreaming at the beach about morse code. As a mechanical engineer, he spent much of career with IBM
and the sea had been considered but deemed unfeasible. Last year Gabon set five tons of tusks aflame in a very public event,
Now that raw sewage is dumped no longer into the river and laws limit industrial water pollution, the city is working to bring back miles of streams,
native plants and trees will be added  around the banks to complete the stream habitat. Residents can assist the effort by stabilizing bare soil with plants
limiting impervious surfaces, such as concrete, on their property and letting grass grow near stream banks.
Show attendees clamored for photographs of the PNC Bank  Living Wall, a 16-foot high exhibit of plants, such as ferns and  vines,
the wall echoes the recently-unveiled  2, 380-square-foot green wall at the bank's Pittsburgh headquarters
particularly in the Gulf region where water production is a costly and energy-intensive process, explained Dr. Sultan al-Jaber, managing director and CEO of Masdar City.
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Ten million tons of fertilizer pollute Chinese waterways each year, killing off wildlife and contributing to spectacular blooms of green algae visible in Chinese rivers.
Goldenway says it can produce 0. 6 tons of organic fertilizer from a single ton of food waste,
 Beddard s uncle is one of the largest organic farmers on the East Coast,
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and mining or being displaced by government policies to protect forests and coasts. This trend will play out across the globe.
which works for the coastal preservation, said that the  Pondicherry harbor constructed in 1989 has blocked the natural movement of sand causing massive erosion to northern beaches  on India's  southeastern coast.
The beach is disappearing so fishermen have no space to put their boats or to spread their nets,
Over the years, the government has built also walls made of rock to keep the Bay of bengal Sea from washing away villages in Pondicherry.
activists from the eastern Assam state warned that hundreds of villages along the Brahmaputra river Basin are already being displaced.
Ravindranath from the Rural Volunteer Centre, explained that mining activity has made the river water so heavy that farmers can't use it for irrigation.
and poor Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh are leaving the river basin to become laborers and rickshaw pullers in cities.
I believe such a measure would help bridge the gulf between the elderly and technology.
when forests and wetlands are destroyed to clear land to grow biofuel crops. And with ILUC added to the mix, it looks like some top biofuel crops are worse for the environment, in terms of carbon emissions, than crude oil.
as sea levels continue an upward march. One research group says the global climate adaptation services industry is already worth $2 billion.
It's about working with nature to create innovative and clever waterways throughout Melbourne--in our backyards and in public spaces.
Capturing this water falling onto a site assists in improving the ecology of the city's urban waterways,
where rainfall percolates through the soil and indigenous plantings, moves through the mountains and down to the river,
with waterfalls often aerating and creating movement in the water, Johnson said. My designs follow this natural system, scaled back to work in any backyard.
Building a rain garden to help filter stormwater before it enters our waterways. Installing a rainwater tank to capture water for the garden,
a river was cut in the science classroom floor which actually flows with water when it rains, thanks to the new science wing's rainwater harvesting system.
A river runs through KMD's Bertschi School Seattle. Photo by Benjamin Benschneider Even the format of how we learn,
Guan Haisen (pictured top), an appraiser who works at Beijing Antique City, imports the Ocean Optics LIBS system from the U s,
These photographs, part of an ongoing Nature of Los angeles series, tell the story that moves beyond the stories of concrete that often color depictions of the West Coast metropolis. LA is a place you can take for granted,
These natural infrastructure projects filter rainwater and allow it to slowly seep back into the ground rather than runoff into waterways, taking pollutants with it.
Storm water runoff and the overflow of combined sewer systems--where stormwater and raw sewage flow together in the same pipes--into waterways are two of the biggest problems facing urban water supplies.
by committing to a comprehensive citywide program that will benefit its neighborhoods and its rivers alike.
and revive ancient rivers. There are young women teaching old women how to plant tomatoes in the grass between high rises;
artists turning ocean trash into gorgeous, consumer criticism; and even a crowdsourced multimedia campaign with visions for Mexico of the Future  which includes submissions such as a solar panel on every house  and respect for flora and fauna.
the water in the river is the blood of our ancestors.''We wanted to illustrate that
We move more earth and stone than all the world rivers. We have left a fine layer of plutonium
not including the oceans. Can you unpack this stat? DB: Essentially 43%of the seven continents is devoted now to feeding humanity.
and then letting it run off into the ocean. And then it goes into the cycle
like finding way to desalinate sea water cheaply and easily. If we did that we would not have to worry about depleting aquifers
because it would take us a very long time to deplete all the water in the oceans.
The good news is that we â â¢ve been dealing with sea level rise and weird weather for most of human history.
and can build sea walls or shift populations. The majority of people driving climate change those are the rich will adapt fine, no problem.
There are projects testing out the possibility of seeding the ocean with iron; this is a fertilization scheme.
Ocean plankton are one of the biggest CO2 sucks on the planet, and if you fertilize them there might be more blooms.
and the oceans and atmosphere only absorb five billion tons. A senior scientist at the Jet propulsion Lab, meanwhile--Sassan Saatchi--is relying on Lefsky's data to create forest biomass maps.
researchers will be flying up and down the West Coast shooting light pulses to create the most detailed map of the coast yet.
in addition to a hefty supply of fish and seafood fetched from its 100-mile coastline. Since the meltdown, Fukushima has dropped from the nation fourth-largest rice producer to its seventh
following tides and currents. â Å Some fish in one area of the sea are contaminated,
and prevent the contamination of rivers and lakes through stromwater runoff. The U s. Conference of Mayors, the official organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more, recently adopted a number of resolution that call the 1,
and contaminated a river (image above). One disposal strategy, which the EPA includes in its approaches to regulate coal ash,
Located in in the Bay South garden, the one-of-a-kind park showcases a total of 18 man-made supertrees, massive structures towering as a high as 50 meters over the ocean bay.
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On the Salinas Valley farm, entrepreneurs with Mountain view-based startup Blue River Technology are trying to show that the Lettuce Bot can
because they can bind with positively charged metals that leach into rivers from industrial operations. To test the peels
River, which was polluted with copper and lead. The peels performed as well or better than many typical filtering materials, like silica or carbon.
That reduced erosion, the runoff of chemicals into waterways and the use of fuel for tractors.
She can picture a future beach assault situation similar to the U s. invasion of Normandy,
we send in robots on the beach and let the robots take the fire, and then set up a logistics camp
Unlike corn or even sugar ethanol, halophyte algae (algae that grow in saltwater) do not compete with food stocks for freshwater. oewhen the cost of pumping ocean water into so-called wasteland regions such as the Sahara
halophyte algae farmers could use solar-powered pumps to move water up from sea level or even up from underground aquifers such as the Nubian sandstone aquifer system that sits beneath desolate regions of Libya, Chad, and Sudan.
Tidal-current turbines and tidal-stream turbines tapping the power of sea systems like the Gulf stream could provide energy for power-hungry states such as Florida.
which flows at 1, 000 times the rate of the Mississippi river, might be tapped for power,
The Center of Excellence in Ocean Energy Technology at Florida Atlantic University The Issue: Hunger The earth population is projected to increase by 2. 5 billion people in the next four decades,
Individuals (mostly women and children) are forced often to trek long distances to lakes ponds, or public water pumps in other villages,
The efforts-such as planting trees along the shorelines of rivers to prevent soil erosion-are also creating jobs, the report,
State of Watershed Payments 2012, says. Produced by the nonprofit Forest Trends, the report is the second instalment of an inventory of initiatives around the world that are paying individuals
including wetlands, streams and forests that can capture, filter and store freshwater. Protecting watershed services Countries are seeking to protect watershed services-the benefits,
like clean water, obtained from healthy watershed ecosystems-by incentivizing the maintenance and improvement of watershed areas.
Of the 205 oepayments for watershed services programmes tracked around the world, more than half are in China (61) and the United states (67).
Forest Trends discovered watershed investment programmes in 29 countries, but a staggering 91 percent of the payments in 2011 took place in China.
There are, however, massive initiatives underway in Africa. South africa runs the continent largest water conservation programme, Working for Water,
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.
Countries like Bulgaria, Gabon, Ghana, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi and Romania are oein line to implement their first IWS mechanism in 2012 and the coming years,
Researchers Maryanne Grieg-Gran and Ina Porras, from the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), say they have been recording oefaltering progress of payment for watershed services initiatives in their reviews of such schemes
said Carroll. oeredirecting more of the government, multilateral bank and aid dollars away from grey infrastructure concrete,
manmade infrastructure and towards watershed payment systems and natural infrastructure is another piece of the puzzle.
And though investments in watershed services are growing rapidly, 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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