water conservation

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.

A discussion of the problems with fresh water supplies around the US and the world, and what measures, small and large, people are taking to help conserve water.

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.

Foremost Groups Inc, a manufacturer of home furnishing products, has released a line of High-Efficiency toilets designed to conserve water amidst anticipated widespread droughts in the near future.

To supply an irrigation system, a low-maintenance rainwater harvesting system is key. Most systems can be daunting for the DIY-er, but this modular system makes it much easier.

I look forward to the day when our children and grandchildren look at us like we are idiots when we tell them that once we had to keep 40+ gallons of water heated 24/7/365 just "in case" we needed it. Also check out this comparison / review of different tankless water heater brands: http://www.comparethebrands.com/compare/90

The western half of the continental United States is heating up 70% faster than the world as a whole, with a long list of potential consequences, including drought, heat waves and wildfires.

Domestic Water measuring unit is a device that can be attached to standard tap and shower fittings in our homes. The unit accurately measures the water consumption from a single outlet and by increases user awareness may help reduces water consumption.

Drought, soaring populations and population densities, changing diets, and increasing living standards are allWater shortages are on the rise, from Mexico, the Andes, northern China, southern India, Spain, to Pakistan. factors. Is this an issue that technology can fix?

Every time I’ve used a public urinal, I’m appalled at the amount of water is used in one visit, not to mention multiplied by the the number of people that day times the number of bathrooms in the US. It’s enough to make my eco-brain spin and is enough to convince me to not flush.

This site contains the series of articles about an average home owner's experience with the energy audit report received on their home. These articles include the actual graphs, charts, recommendations, and so on from the actual report as well as hte home owner's reaction.

This really is tremendous reading and should encourage all home owners to stop procrastinating and have an energy audit on their own home. It also reminds all of us of the many different ways that everyone can conserve energy usage.

A friend invited me to join a site called GenGreen, which is basically a MySpace-esque site for the environmentally conscious. I was surprised to see some of the members who are using the site because I could never have guessed some of these people cared about the environment. What appears to make GenGreen different is that its focus is local and it has a somewhat separate section for each state in the U.S. You'll have to visit the site to see what I mean. It's a new-ish site, but their intentions are beyond anything I've seen. This is worth your attention!

If we followed the "if it's yellow, let it mellow - if it's brown, flush it down" mantra, the "average" person could save about 10 gallons of water per day. Multiply that by 300 million people in the United States, and that's over 3 billion gallons of water saved each day. Over a year, that's over 1 trillion gallons of water.

One of a series of articles on this site that discuss biofuels, when they make sense and when they don't.

In what is being described as a one-of-a-kind model for water-supply management, the Aquarion Water Company and the Nature Conservancy (TNC) have established a water-management partnership that will attempt to hold sufficient water in reserve for human needs without denying an area watershed the flow of water necessary for ecological health and vitality.