While water covers 73% of the earth’s surface, clean water is, in many parts of the world, a scarce and expensive resource, and is increasingly becoming more scarce and more expensive. It is common in the eastern and central parts of the US, however, even here we experience water shortages. Frakking, coal processing, cooling [...]
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Conservation,
Vapour Inc.,
water
Cryptome with resources (but not a complete list) of High-Hazard reservoirs in the New York City Area.watch tangled full movie online
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risk new york,
water
Their focus, of course, is different from ours, but Toolmonger is an incredible site – often showing emergency response/reconstruction tools we’d never hear of otherwise. Here’s one the Rol-La-Tank: (or Fol-Da-Tank, which might be the company name, or the name of the product line). They’ve got both URL’s Foldatank.com and Fol-Da-Tank – this should give [...]
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Gear,
water
Liz Borkowski at The Pump Handlehas an interesting discussion of sewage systems – she points out thatWhile most of sewage systems do a great job of making the water look clean and getting rid of bacteria and viruses, they often aren’t designed to remove synthetic chemicals. With so many of us dependent on daily doses [...]
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pharmaceuticals,
Sewage Systems,
Toxicity,
Toxicology,
water
The Swiss Firm MW Line makes solar boats that are ferrying people around lakes and rivers in Switzerland, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. The only backup power, apparently, is on-shore charging from the grid. They’re also the shipbuilder for the PlanetSolar project which plans to have a solar-only craft in the water ready for [...]
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Energy,
Solar,
Transportation,
water
In mid-2003, the World Health organization reported on cholera in Iraq: rom 28 April to 4 June 2003, a total of 73 laboratory-confirmed cholera cases have been reported in Iraq : 68 in Basra governorate, 4 in Missan governorate, 1 in Muthana governorate. No deaths have been reported. From 17 May to 4 June 2003, [...]
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cholera water-borne risks,
Drapeau,
Epidemiology,
Iraq,
water