Making sense of water consumption (Water Wednesday) The Energy star label has become an iconic way to help people identify the most energy-efficient electronics gadgets, appliances and other technologies.
and volume of the water that goes into keeping up lawns and landscaping. The EPA figures that residential outdoor watering uses up to 7 billion gallons of water on a daily basis. Most people tend to adjust the settings for these devices once per year
and then forget about them. Watersense-blessed irrigation controllers will be tied into local weather data, so that plants and grass will be watered only when conditions call for it.
The EPA figures that the new technologies could help save up to 110 billion gallons of wasted water annually,
the EPA believes that it has helped consumers save up to 125 billion gallons of water and more than $2 billion in water and energy bills.
Past Water Wednesday posts: Online tool allows for comparisons of water strategy Scotts Miracle-Gro believes lawns aren t just ornaments Deloitte donates expertise to online management tool Cities that charge more for waster see fewer unexplained
losses Tampa Bay, Veolia offer twist on smart water management The philosophy behind Molson Coors beerprint Tech giant LG extends into water treatment Pepsico,
Nature Conservancy share watershed lessons Alliance to share water risk data; the value of wastewater Greenpeace challenges apparel industry to come clean Pushing for more disclosure Smarter home irrigation technologies Smart grid gains ground with water managers 3 water
management tips from Intel Pepsico grant supports clean water in rural China Many businesses blind to water risks
Meet the Maverick: the only fully legal flying carthe last time a flying car had shot a at making an impact was in 1956,
when the precursor to the FAA deemed the iconic Taylor Areocar safe for flight. Even without tangled masses of red tape holding it back,
Police are concerned extremely as there is no water supply within the Park and temperatures can reach as high as 46 degrees,
or water and have walked long distances through dangerous terrain to get phone reception. The force has asked Apple to fix the issue,
We have changed also the water cycle. We are taking what is known as fossil water. This is found in underground aquifers that have been around for maybe millions of years we are pumping that water to the surface
using it to irrigate our crops and then letting it run off into the ocean. And then it goes into the cycle
but it never goes back to those aquifers. When that water is gone where does that leave our present agricultural system?
SP: So we have done essentially all this which has helped fuel our exploding population and our overwhelming population is now causing even more problems.
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.
utilizes mostly cheap and abundant resources like saltwater and wasteland, and has the potential to reduce global carbon-dioxide output tremendously.
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.
could lessen the world food and water shortages. Some 68%of the freshwater that is now tied up in conventional agriculture could
As many as 2/3 of the earth inhabitants will live in water-stressed areas by 2030 and decreasing water supplies will have a direct effect on hunger.
Nearly 200 million Africans are facing serious water shortages. That number will climb to 230 million by 2025
Finding fresh water in Africa is often a huge task, requiring people (mostly women and children) to trek miles to public wells. While the average human requires only about 4 liters of drinking water a day, as much as 5,
000 liters of water is needed to produce a person daily food requirements. Futurist Fixes 1. The Food Pill.
Finding fresh water in many parts of Africa is a monumental task. Individuals (mostly women and children) are forced often to trek long distances to lakes
ponds, or public water pumps in other villages, and are able to bring back only about 25 liters (6. 6 gallons) at a time.
but also to pump desperately needed fresh water from depths of up to 100 meters. While the average human requires only about 4 liters of drinking water a day
as much as 5, 000 liters of water is needed to produce a person daily food requirements.
are able to produce 1, 400 liters of water an hour, all while keeping children entertained. oewe ve got 700 units in the ground right now,
At a community about 40 miles north of Johannesburg, they had 500 children and no water supply to the school at all;
they had no fresh water, no toilet, no water to wash their hands. Every drop they used they had to bring from kilometers away.
We installed a Playpump there some years ago. The Playpump is just one example of a new and building movement,
With sections focusing on food, water, shelter, health and sanitation, energy and transportation, and education, oedesign for the Other 90%focused on problem solving for the vast majority of the world people who survive under the poverty level
Lifestraw is a personal water-purification device, designed by Torben Vestergaard Frandsen. The simple activated carbon filtration system aims to tackle the Millennium Development Goal of reducing the proportion of the world people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.
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.
¢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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