Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
Opencast mining involves scraping at the ground’s surface, while room and pillar mining occurs below ground. Likewise, longwall mining uses heavy machinery to dig at coal seams beneath the surface: learn more in this interactive inforgraphic.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
The infographic portrays the evolution of water technology, including its immediate successes of human progress and the disadvantages of that progress. Based on an essay by Peter Gleick, the scientific, social, and historical findings are translated into this piece, putting those patterns in a contemporary light.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
The population of China’s capital has doubled since 1980, and, though agricultural and industrial water use is down, municipal use is up.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
Entry in the 2011 Urban Water Design Challenge, sponsored by Visualizing.org and Circle of Blue. Andy Jepkes submitted this infographic for the 2011 Urban Water Design Challenge—sponsored by Circle of Blue and Visualizing.org. Graphic © Andy Jepkes for Circle of Blue and Visualizing.org Infographic: Breakdown of water consumption and water use for the 120 fastest-urbanizing […]
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
The relative water consumption per capita, percent usage of available freshwater in each country, and the respective breakdowns of use in agricultural, municipal, and industrial sectors are shown for the 120 fastest-urbanizing countries.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
This is a global overview of the water access (as a percentage of population) and of the urban factor.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
中国沿黄河开展雄心勃勃的节约用水和水权转换计划以应对迫在眉睫的水资源危机
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
Global clean water supply by countries those less than 50% of the population can reach, and its facts, based on WHO and Pacific Institute 2004 reports.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
Widely recognized as one of America’s top contemporary artists, Greg Mort created the watercolor, Circle of Blue, in honor of Circle of Blue’s commitment to global water issues.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
Entry in the 2011 Urban Water Design Challenge, sponsored by Visualizing.org and Circle of Blue.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
This visualization visually and physically describes the freshwater withdrawal per capita from the G7 and another nation.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
Ma Jun tells Circle of Blue that China is still on the track of a highly energy- and resource-intensive model, with the need to de-couple economic growth from the expansion of resource consumption
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
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