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It takes between 3,000 gallons and 6,000 gallons of water to power a 60-watt incandescent bulb for 12 hours a day over the course of a year. That statistic was published on Thursday by researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, who have studied how demand for a dwindling natural resource–fresh water–plays into energy. […]
FORT COLLINS, COLO. — When it starts at 10,000 feet and slices through the mountains in the canyon that bears its name, the Cache la Poudre River is a shock of water in this dry land. But by the time it winds its way out to this laid-back college city of 120,000 people, most of […]
FORT COLLINS, COLO. — When it starts at 10,000 feet and slices through the mountains in the canyon that bears its name, the Cache la Poudre River is a shock of water in this dry land. But by the time it winds its way out to this laid-back college city of 120,000 people, most of […]
In the last 12 years, the most powerful oil companies have rushed to plunk down $150 billion in the oil sands.
ASPEN – Are we in an endgame struggle for survival or do we face the greatest opportunities in the history of civilization? Both. Granted, the messages remain grim, perhaps even darker than I had expected here under the blue skies at the Aspen Environment Forum. But of all the gatherings I’ve attended this year, I’ve […]
SEATTLE — Legislation to provide the largest new influx of water to towns and farms in the Columbia Basin in three decades was signed Thursday by Gov. Chris Gregoire. The bill will allow Lake Roosevelt, behind Grand Coulee Dam, to be drawn down an additional 82,500 acre-feet a year and as much as 132,000 acre-feet […]
LUANDA, ANGOLA — The project for the supply of drinking water to rural areas “Water for All” will benefit about 80 percent of the country’s population, as from 2012, informed Thursday in Caxito city, northern Bengo province, the minister of Energy and Waters, Botelho de Vasconcelos. Read More here. Source: Angola Press Agency
SALT LAKE CITY — For a few days Grand Canyon National Park’s chief of science and resource management, Martha Hahn, floated down mile after mile of Colorado River, marveling at aquatic habitat and shoreline that looked and acted like the Glen Canyon Dam never existed. Read more here. Source : Deseret Morning News
PAGE, AZ — Four arcs of water unleashed from a dam coursed through the Grand Canyon on Wednesday, March 5, in a flood meant to mimic the natural ones that used to nourish the ecosystem by spreading sediment, the Associated Press reports.More than 300,000 gallons of water per second were released from Lake Powell above the dam […]
They may not be gas-guzzlers, but electric cars have a raging thirst for water.
GAINESVILLE, FL — The weekend announcement that the talks between Georgia, Florida and Alabama over an 18-year impasse on water issues have broken down gives little indication as to what is next in the battle between the states. The negotiators for the three states and the federal government, as well as representatives of Georgia Power […]
SPOKANE, WA — The Western states’ booming population and growing fears about climate change have governments studying construction of new dams to capture more winter rain and spring snowmelt for use in dry summer months. Ironically, consideration of new dams comes even as older ones are being torn down across the country because of environmental […]
