For years, technological visionaries have painted a seductive vision of using ocean tides and waves to produce power. They foresee large installations off the coast and in tidal estuaries that could provide as much as 10 percent of the nation’s electricity.
But the technical difficulties of making such systems work are proving formidable. Last year, a [...]
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Power From the Restless Sea Stirs the Imagination
Posted in oceans, water power on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NRDC Wins Settlement in Beach Water Lawsuit Against EPA
Posted in oceans, pollution, water conservation, water testing on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a settlement to a lawsuit brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has agreed to develop new public health standards and pollution testing methods for U.S. beaches. The settlement agreement will result in a safer, healthier experience for tens of millions of people who visit U.S. beaches each [...]
No Swift Return to Storm-Battered Galveston Island
Posted in pollution on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
GALVESTON, Tex. — As the search continued here for people killed or stranded by Hurricane Ike, the authorities said Monday that they were faced with much larger challenges than simply clearing roadways and restoring electricity before they could let residents back onto this debris-strewn island.
The sludge left in homes and on roads as floodwaters recede [...]
EPA announces tranche of research grants
Posted in pollution, water filtration, water testing on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the award of $3.6 million in research grants to four universities, one non-profit, and one research institute to improve the detection of known and emerging drinking water contaminants; including the harmful substances produced by blue-green algae in algal blooms and noroviruses.
Grant recipients include Georgia Tech, to develop [...]
Controlled drugs dumped uncontrolled into water
Posted in pollution, water safety on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a frustrating quirk in government policy, the most tightly controlled drugs — like painkilling narcotics prone to abuse — are the ones that most often elude environmental regulation when they become waste.
Federal narcotics regulators impose strict rules meant to keep controlled pharmaceuticals out of the wrong hands. Yet those rules also make these drugs [...]
DEKA Research
Posted in third world assistance, water filtration on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
DEKA Research & Development Corporation is a dynamic, growing company, focused on the development of radical new technologies that span a diverse set of applications. Our team is comprised of engineering, manufacturing and quality professionals dedicated to creating innovative solutions for advanced technologies. The people at DEKA focus on the complete development process, from proof [...]
Research into Ice Age retreat predicts higher sea level rises
Posted in oceans, water facts on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have reconstructed events at the end of the last ice age to produce a theory that sea levels could rise at a rate of over 1m per century.
The researchers found that the Laurentide ice sheet, which covered most of North America between 95,000 and 7000 years ago, disintegrated rapidly.
The [...]
UNEP report warns of fast glacier loss
Posted in oceans, water facts on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released a report that warns glaciers around the world are shrinking significantly, with strong retreats in the 1940s, a short break of stability or growth in the 1970s, but increasing rates of ice loss since then.
Over the last decade of available data, from 1996 to 2005, the average thickness [...]
WSUP – Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor
Posted in pollution, third world assistance, water conservation, water facts, water filtration, water safety, water testing on September 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Our mandate is to support local service providers around the world to deliver affordable and sustainable water and sanitation services to poor people in urban communities.
We work with local communities right from the start of every project and the partnership continues throughout the whole process.
WSUP is itself a partnership – between public, private and civil [...]
World Business Council for Sustainable Development – Water (WBCSD)
Posted in pollution, tap water, third world assistance, water conservation, water facts, water filtration, water safety on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone understands that water is essential to life. But many are only just now beginning to grasp how essential it is to everything in life – food, energy, transportation, nature, leisure, identity, culture, social norms, and virtually all the products used on a daily basis.
With population growth and economic development accelerating demand for everything, freshwater [...]
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