Tenacity and technology: Current freshwater crisis has solutions, Scientific American article explains
July 24, 2008
As demand for water skyrockets and droughts abound, an article in the recent Scientific American presents a six-point plan to mitigate the world’s water woes. Water infrastructure must change for the better, it declares. Read more
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Texas residents still lack water as EPA grant expires, unspent
July 24, 2008
SANTA ROSA, Texas - A recent EPA audit revealed that a $4 million grant to the city of Santa Rosa was never spent, according to a report from the Associated Press. The grant, intended to provide low-income neighborhoods called colonias with water and sewage infrastructure, expired in 2002. Read more
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From tap to bottled in 18 miles
May 15, 2008
NEW YORK - After two years of extremely heated debate that included references to ecology, history, geography, and the politics of selling or buying mass-produced cupcakes, the Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn voted at the end of last month to discontinue the sale of bottled water. It comes to about 670 gallons of water per week. Read more
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Coke thirsts to be water neutral
April 22, 2008
Coke has good business reasons to take sustainability seriously. Its brand is all-important. It depends on clean water, a scarce resource. And the company has been stung by alleged misdeeds. Although no one ever proved a connection, a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Kerala, India, was shut down in 2004 after nearby wells went dry. That fed into a global anti-Coke campaign that caused about 20 colleges, including the University of Michigan and NYU, to suspend the sale of Coca-Cola products, albeit temporarily. (Fortune) Read morePopularity: 5%
US water utilities partner to study climate change effects
March 13, 2008
DENVER — Eight utilities across the United States - from New York to Southern California - have formed the Water Utility Climate Alliance (WUCA) to research the ways in which global warming will impact their operations. WUCA wants to improve climate-related information collection and maintenance, as well as ensure that water providers around the world have access to the data. Read morePopularity: 7%
