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A very interesting poster has been created on the basis of this measurement. In addition, the design is really nice and has been rewarded on multiple occasions...

Ben Grumbles, Assistant Administrator for Water, Environmental Protection Agency, is interviewed about the linkages between energy, water and climate change. That includes, particularly, a regulation EPA has proposed aimed at protecting drinking water around the areas where carbon dioxide would be stored underground through future carbon sequestration technology.

A number of influential scientists and experts in Asian studies now say that control and management of an even more vital resource – the Tibetan Plateau’s vast supply of freshwater – is also emerging at the center of the increasingly tense political and cultural strife between China and Tibet.

Map of the United States that shows the areas where water has tested abnormally high for heavy metal contaminants

Scary facts about water quality.

North Carolina-based Primo Water launched earlier this month and becomes the only US bottled water company to use bio-based material for its singe serve 16.9 fl.oz bottles.

A breakthrough technology announced today quickly and cheaply removes metal contaminants like mercury from water. Is the breakthrough a Trojan Horse?

Hello again everyone, hopefully everyone’s weekend was good?

Late last week Health Canada issued their report on Bisphenol A (BPA) in consumer products, most notably in infant and children’s products.

Happy Earth Day everybody! Today is the day where everyone is supposed to do all those little things to help save the environment. Theres no doubt that we should be doing those things everyday, but today is hopefully a day where someone tries it for the first time and continues to everyday after today.

LifeStraw is a personal, portable water purifier developed to combat waterborne diseases, of which nearly 6,000 people die from each day. Forbes Magazine calls it, “One of the Ten Things that will Change the Way We Live”.

Excellent reasons to choose a solar powered garden fountain over the standard non-solar powered one. Some of the reasons mentioned are not obvious at all.

An IPCC report this week linked climate change and drought to shortages in food, and warned that lack of fresh water could lead to a global food crisis.

Ever looked at the ingredients of most soft drinks?

I figured it was high time I do a more thorough water audit of our household. With the water supply in the Pacific Northwest guaranteed for the next fifty years, I've been a bit lazy about this. But understanding the world's present water crises, and how much worse it's expected to get, conserving water is still a good idea.

The same Washington Post newspaper that so courageously uncovered the Watergate assault on American values now investigates the way Vice-President Cheney secretly manipulates the enactment of environmental policies to make sure his supporters wring the last drop of water, coal, power and cash from the natural world Americans depend on. He reroutes rivers, fills in valleys, drills where the polar bear should roam - a little asthma or cancer never seems to have hurt anyone he ever met....