The Travel Berkey Water Filter’s high quality and effectiveness has stood the test of time. First ordered by the Royal House in England, it’s also been used by relief organizations such as Unicef, the Peace Corps, and Red Cross Societies internationally. What’s more, British Berkefeld systems have been used for over 150 years by missionaries, [...]
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Travel Berkey Water Filter
Posted in third world assistance, water filtration on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Journal of Environmental Quality
Posted in water facts, water safety on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Journal of Environmental Quality (JEQ) is published by ASA, CSSA, and SSSA. The American Society of Agronomy (ASA) is a prominent international scientific society headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. Because of their common interests, ASA, the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) share a close working relationship [...]
UN Atlas of the Oceans
Posted in oceans, water conservation, water facts on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
About the Oceans provides an encyclopaedic collection of information about the oceans, organized in the following areas:
How Oceans were Formed: an overview of the physical, chemical and biological processes responsible for the birth and evolution of the oceans
How Oceans are Changing: present trends in oceanic changes in respect to meteorological and oceanographic characteristics, the protection [...]
Bottle Maker to Stop Using Plastic Linked to Health Concerns – New York Times
Posted in water safety on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The decision by Nalgene Outdoor Products, a unit of Thermo Fisher Scientific, based in Rochester, came after reports that the Canadian government would declare the chemical bisphenol-a, or BPA, toxic. Some animal studies have linked the chemical to changes in the hormonal system.
Bottle Maker to Stop Using Plastic Linked to Health Concerns – New York [...]
Saving Coral Reefs in Indonesia
Posted in oceans, third world assistance, water conservation on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On land, EcoReefs look attractive but artificial, like contemporary sculpture. Nearly two years later, they’re something else entirely: a hybrid of technology and organic life, like Jeff Goldblum at the end of The Fly. Their antler-shaped arms are covered with baby corals and sponges, more varieties than I can count. Parrotfish, Moorish idols and clownfish [...]
Article 31: The Right to Water
Posted in third world assistance, water safety on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Article 31: Everyone has the right to clean and accessible water, adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family, and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic circumstance.
United Nations – All human rights for all
SIGN THE PETITION that everyone has the right to [...]
FLOW: For Love Of Water
Posted in third world assistance, water conservation, water facts, water safety on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This new prize-winning film by Irena Salina highlights the local intimacies of an emerging global crisis.
FLOW: For Love Of Water
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Five Myths About Drinking Water (from National Public Radio)
Posted in water facts on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Myth No. 1: Drink Eight Glasses Each Day
Scientists say there’s no clear health benefit to chugging or even sipping water all day. So where does the standard advice of drinking eight glasses each day come from? “Nobody really knows,” says Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a kidney expert at the University of Pennsylvania.
Myth No. 2: Drinking Lots [...]
The World’s Water
Posted in water facts on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A site dedicated to providing water information, data, and resources to individuals, organizations, and institutions working on solutions to a wide range of global freshwater problems.
They’ve got amazing water stats.
The World’s Water
Tree-Nation, Plant trees, Offset CO2, Stop Global Warming, Environment …
Posted in third world assistance on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An honorable project to plant 8 million trees in the Sahara desert.
Tree-Nation, Plant trees, Offset CO2, Stop Global Warming, Environment …
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