In the last three years alone, more than 9,400 of the nation’s 25,000 sewage systems — including those in major cities — have reported violating the law by dumping untreated or partly treated human waste, chemicals and other hazardous materials into rivers and lakes and elsewhere, according to data from state environmental agencies and the [...]
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Sewers at Capacity, Pollution Spills Into Waterways – Series – NYTimes.com
Posted in pollution, water safety on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
5,600 deep ocean species recorded for the first time « …free your imagination…
Posted in oceans on November 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A report released Sunday recorded 17,650 species living below 656 feet, the point where sunlight ceases. The findings were the latest update on a 10-year census of marine life.“Parts of the deep sea that we assumed were homogenous are actually quite complex,” said Robert S. Carney, an oceanographer at Louisiana State University and a lead [...]
Scott Harrison: Water As Luxury
Posted in charitable giving, third world assistance, water facts on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The founder of charity:water, Scott Harrison, gives a video presentation.
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Posted in oceans on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in water facts on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica – NYTimes.com
Posted in oceans, sustainability, tagged endangered on November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sea turtles are sensitive to numerous effects of warming. They feed on reefs, which are dying in hotter, more acidic seas. They lay eggs on beaches that are being inundated by rising seas and more violent storm surges.
More uniquely, their gender is determined not by genes but by the egg’s temperature during development. Small rises [...]
Miniature Robots to Swarm the Oceans | LiveScience
Posted in oceans, research on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Swarms of soup-can-sized robots will soon plunge into the ocean seeking data on poorly understood phenomena from currents to biology.
With $2.5 million in new funding from the National Science Foundation, researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography will create and deploy fleets of autonomous underwater explorers (AUEs) to explore the depths. Tens or hundreds of [...]
mycharity: water
Posted in 1 on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently co-founded a dairy-free ice cream company. If we sell enough ice cream at our Whole Foods (and other) accounts to stay viable I will donate $250 minus any amount that you donate on this page to charity:water. Currently we are in 25 Whole Foods stores in Northern California.
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Researchers Explore Growing Ocean Garbage Patches – NYTimes.com
Posted in oceans, pollution on November 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
ABOARD THE ALGUITA, 1,000 miles northeast of Hawaii — In this remote patch of the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from any national boundary, the detritus of human life is collecting in a swirling current so large that it defies precise measurement.
Light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, Popsicle sticks and tiny pieces of plastic, each the [...]
Out There: Water, Water Everywhere
Posted in water facts on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Water is ridiculously common, one of the most common molecules in the universe,” said Nicolas Cowan, an astronomer and astrobiologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.
What seems rare is finding water in liquid form. In space, it either vaporizes if it is too hot or freezes if it is too cold .
“The only time [...]
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