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The eco machine that can make water out of thin air

Posted in water filtration on November 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Water, Water, everywhere; nor any drop to drink. The plight of the Ancient Mariner is about to be alleviated thanks to a firm of eco-inventors from Canada who claim to have found the solution to the worlds worsening water shortages by drawing the liquid of life from an unlimited and untapped source – the air.
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Oceans Ten Times More Acidic Than Thought

Posted in oceans on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may make Earth’s oceans more acidic faster than previously thought—unbalancing ecosystems in the process, a new study says.
Since 2000, scientists have measured the acidity of seawater around Tatoosh Island off the coast of Washington state. The acidity increased ten times quicker than climate models predicted.
The research also [...]

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Plumbing the oceans could bring limitless clean energy

Posted in oceans, water power on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The idea of tapping the ocean’s different thermal layers to generate electricity was first proposed in 1881 by French physicist Jacques d’Arsonval but didn’t receive much attention until the world oil crises of the 1970s. In 1979, a US government-backed partnership that included Lockheed Martin, lowered a cold water pipe from a barge off Hawaii [...]

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GenderAnalyzer – Determine if a blog is written by a man or woman

Posted in 1 on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

And now for something silly. This site is a gender analyzer. Here’s what it said about 2knowH2O.com:
“We think http://2knowh2o.com is written by a man 83%.”
It is correct.

GenderAnalyzer – Determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman

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WeatherTRAK Irrigation Systems and Smart ET Controllers from HydroPoint

Posted in energy efficiency, water conservation on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Landscapes consume the lion’s share of urban water, and are overwatered by 30-to-300%. Add to that, water rates are rising across North America. But the real cost of overwatering — property destruction, water runoff and liabilities — is 5-to-10 times as high as water bills. These expenses, combined with increasing social responsibility, drive companies to [...]

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Bottled Water: FAQ on Safety and Purity

Posted in bottled water, water facts, water filtration on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Americans drank 9 billion gallons of bottled water last year, or slightly more than 29 gallons for every man, woman, and child in the country.
They also spent $22 billion on a product that critics of the bottled water industry say they should be getting for free from their home faucets.
Most of the criticism has focused [...]

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Bush Ocean Plan Is Criticized – washingtonpost.com

Posted in oceans on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

President Bush’s vision for protecting two vast areas of the Pacific Ocean from fishing and mineral exploitation, a move that would constitute a major expansion of his environmental legacy, is running into dogged resistance both inside and outside the White House and has placed his wife and his vice president on opposite sides of the [...]

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Download global groundwater maps

Posted in water facts on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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USGS Ground Water Report

Posted in water facts on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

USGS has published “Ground-Water Availability in the United States” as USGS Circular 1323. “This report examines what is known about the Nation’s ground-water availability and outlines a program of study by the U.S. Geological Survey Ground-Water Resources Program to improve our understanding of ground-water availability in major aquifers across the Nation. The approach is designed [...]

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