Posted by Julia Apland Hitz | Feb 8, 2010 | 0 Comments
“A scientific network set up recently by India’s environment ministry will contribute formally to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the country’s prime minister has announced.
Posted by Julia Apland Hitz | Feb 3, 2010 | 0 Comments
Gayle Leonard, in her blog Thirsty in Suburbia, posts about Jason Garland’s Twitter feed, which is set up to automatically update for all water use in his household, continually, dozens of times a day.
It’s undeniable documentation, it’s shocking, and it would get old very, very fast.
Posted by Julia Apland Hitz | Feb 1, 2010 | 0 Comments
In dry areas of the world where access to clean drinking water is a matter of life and death, this novel design lets people get a little help from their plant friends. Yanko Design has developed the ‘Savior Bud’, which collects moisture directly from tree leaves during the natural transpiration cycle.
Posted by Grant Goodrich | Dec 22, 2009 | 0 Comments
With much of the world focused on the Climate Talks in Copenhagen, Denmark over the past two weeks, many of you in the Great Lakes area may be wondering, “how will climate change affect the Lakes?” So let’s take a moment to briefly look at this question.
Posted by Stephen Yang | Dec 19, 2009 | 0 Comments
With Jenni’s recent post on “Water Human Rights: Pollution,” I started to question the safety and current state of the public water system here in the United States. Charles Duhigg’s New York Times article confirmed my suspicions of the potentially dangerous quality of water in the US municipal water system.
The Clean Water Act of 1972 and the Safe [...]
Posted by Upmanu Lall | Dec 15, 2009 | 0 Comments
With Copenhagen heading for an apparent impasse, the world faces an uncertain and potentially dire climate future. Of particular concern is the inability to predict how rainfall across the globe may change in intensity, frequency and seasonality. If there are droughts in some places and floods in others, there will be direct impacts on agriculture, health, energy and natural ecosystems.
Posted by Daniel Stellar | Dec 7, 2009 | 0 Comments
With the Copenhagen climate talks kicking off today, I thought it was worth highlighting the close connection between water and climate, particularly as it pertains to energy use. While goodness knows the delegates in Copenhagen will have enough to do to hammer out even a “framework” agreement, I hope some attention will be paid to the close [...]
Posted by Jennifer Vettel | Dec 3, 2009 | 1 Comments
In my previous blogs, I have been discussing different ways in which the human right to clean water is violated. I have already discussed how economic scarcity occurs, and this week I will be discussing pollution of water.
Pollution issues are largely leading to contamination of the water supplies around the world. There are countless types [...]
Posted by Columbia Water Center | Nov 26, 2009 | 0 Comments
The Columbia Water Center has spent the last two years pursuing its commitment to research on global water scarcity, in 15 countries on 5 continents across the world. In this age of extensive social media networks, it seems a daunting task to reach all those who have helped and supported us…. So we offer this [...]
Posted by Kristin Francoz | Nov 24, 2009 | 3 Comments
Today, Statkraft, a company in Norway, opened the world’s first osmotic power plant—a model of a sustainable energy system which uses osmosis to harness the energy of fresh water’s natural movement toward salt water through a membrane.
The idea for power generated through the movement of water, due to osmosis through a specially designed membrane, was [...]
