Posted in devastation, water on Oct 27th, 2008 No Comments »
By Kari Lydersen, article on alternet.
From the mining of raw materials to energy production to the manufacturing process itself, industry guzzles tons of water.
…..The rampant waste of freshwater for general public use — lawn watering, the creation of suburban fake lakes, excessive bathing and household washing — has been well documented, as has the politically … Read more »
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Posted in water on Sep 27th, 2008 No Comments »
By Tara Lohan, on Alternet.
Can anyone really own water? That was the questions that got French filmmaker Irena Salina inspired to take on a mammoth project — chronicling the global water crisis and solutions — from privatization to politics to pollution.
Her creation, the award-winning film “FLOW: For Love of Water,” was a Sundance hit and … Read more »
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Posted in news, water on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Environment News Service
The world’s supplies of clean, fresh water cannot sustain today’s “profligate” use and inadequate management, which have brought shrinking food supplies and rising food costs to most countries, WWF Director General James Leape told the opening session of World Water Week in Stockholm today.
“Behind the world food crisis is a global freshwater … Read more »
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Sharon Astyk looks at how to get water off your roof, out of the ground or otherwise when things get difficult.
Why do you need to know this? Isn’t it just crazy talk to imagine us not having *WATER*? Well, how much is your water bill right now? Are you sure … Read more »
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Posted in water on Aug 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Says Diane Francis on Alternet.
Bottled water is a joke, one of the biggest consumer and taxpayer ripoffs ever. I applaud California’s Attorney General Jerry Brown who said recently that he will sue to block a proposed water-bottling operation in Northern California by Nestle.
Next, Attorneys General everywhere should require recycling of all plastic bottles and containers … Read more »
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8 principles, by Brad Lancaster on Oil Drum: Local.
Principle #1: Begin with long and thoughtful observation.
Principle #2: Start harvesting rain at the top of your watershed, then work your way down.
Principle #3: Always plan an overflow route, and manage overflow as a resource.
Principle #4. Start with small and simple strategies that harvest the rain as […] Read more »
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Posted in water on Jul 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
asks Colin Dunn on Alternet.
Summer is heating up, and all the pools, barbeques, lawn-watering and the like that put our water use under the microscope, even more than it is the rest of the year. But did you know that we all have a “water-footprint”?
Quite similar in concept to the carbon footprint, our water footprints […] Read more »
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How U.S. farming policy leads to ‘dead zones,’ huge marine areas where nothing can grow, by Kent Garber.
Each spring, the cycle of death begins anew. Nitrogen and phosphorus, leached from fertilizer, pass from farmland into streams, from streams into rivers—the Mississippi, the Potomac, the Susquehanna—and then, finally, into some of the country’s great bodies of […] Read more »
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Posted in water on Jun 9th, 2008 No Comments »
More about water, an article in YES! magazine, by Maude Barlow.
Clearly, the powers that be in the United States have decided that water is not a public good but a private resource that must be secured by whatever means.
But there are alternatives.
North Americans must learn to live within our means, by conserving water […] Read more »
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Interview with Vandana Shiva on Alternet.
Vandana Shiva: One aspect of the inconsistency is between the principles of Gaia, the principles of soil, the ecology, renewability, how the atmosphere cleans itself and the laws of the global marketplace. The global marketplace is driven by the World Bank and the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the illogic […] Read more »
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