A solution to the world’s plastic crisis may have a possible long-term solution: a Waterloo, Canada teenager, Daniel Burd, has found a way to make plastic bags degrade faster — in three months, he figures. Burd recently won the top prize at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Ottawa. He came back with a long list [...]
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Is There a Solution to the “Continent of Plastic” that Pollutes the Pacific?
Posted in oceans, pollution on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Novel nanotechnology material addresses water pollution and oil spills
Posted in nanotechnology on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New work coming out of MIT now describes a novel nanostructures membrane that can be switched between superhydrophilic and superhydrophobic behavior on demand. Think of it as an ‘oil spill clean-up paper towel’ that absorbs only the oil but not the water. Given the global scale of severe water pollution arising from oil spills and [...]
ETF Investing » A flood of water ETFs
Posted in water company on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another post about investing in water, via a popular new approach called an exchange-traded fund or ETF.
PowerShares Water Resources Portfolio (PHO) is an ETF launched in 2005 that has over $2 billion in assets. It tracks the Palisades Water Index, a basket of companies that focus on the provision of potable water, the treatment of [...]
Water: The Ultimate Commodity
Posted in water company on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are the stock market indexes that track water companies:
Palisades Water Index – This index was designed to track the performance of companies involved in the global water industry, including pump and filter manufacturers, water utilities and irrigation equipment manufacturers. The ticker symbol for the Palisades Water Index is ZWI.
Dow Jones U.S. Water Index – [...]
Aquatechtrade.com – the B2B portal for the water industry
Posted in water filtration on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Aquatechtrade.com is a virtual marketplace, containing an extensive list of companies, featured products and services, a daily news bulletin, information on job vacancies and various trade fairs.
Aquatechtrade.com – Aquatechtrade.com is the B2B portal for the water industry with an online buyers guide, list of companies.
Plastic Bottle Waste – Solution on the Horizon
Posted in water filtration on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Irish company, Aqua-Nu Filtration Systems Ltd., is set to unveil its powerful new drinking water micro-filter to the market – promising a permanent solution to the environmental problem of plastic bottle waste. The PURITYCAPSULE(TM) micro-filter offers consumers the opportunity to drink water from virtually any source with complete confidence in its quality – eliminating the [...]
Local entrepreneur to acquire bottled water firm – News for Inland Southern California
Posted in water filtration on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Richard Heckmann, the former CEO of Palm Desert-based US Filter announced early Tuesday that his acquisition firm would acquire China Water and Drinks Inc., a Nevada-based company operating in Asia as a bottled water seller, for about $625 million.
China Water, which will produce 1.1 billion small water bottles and 21 million five-gallon jugs by the [...]
Drinking water can be harmful to smallest babies
Posted in water facts on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Even when they’re very tiny, they have an intact thirst reflex or a drive to drink,” Dr. Jennifer Anders, a pediatric emergency physician at the center, told Reuters Health. “When they have that thirst and they want to drink, the fluid they need to drink more of is their breast milk or formula.”
Because babies kidneys [...]
USGS Water Resources of the United States
Posted in water facts on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) mission is to provide water information that benefits the Nation’s citizens: Publications, data, maps, and applications software. USGS Water-Resources offices are located in every State.
NWISWeb Water Data:
Access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites throughout the Nation.
-Real-Time
-Surface Water
-Ground Water
-Water Quality
-Site Inventory
USGS Water Resources of the United States
Developing a Playground-Powered Water Pump
Posted in third world assistance on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rebecca Moore took inspiration from the Instituto water project, and as an independent study helped design a new type of water pump and purification system for a small school in Cusco, Peru. The system used playground equipment, such as a seesaw or merry-go-round, to pump water from the ground into the school. The water would [...]
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