If there is one thing Robert Eperu wants more than anything, it is access to clean water, close to his home in the Katine district of Uganda. Only then will members of the family no longer need to walk four miles each day to collect water from a well covered in algae, contaminated with feces […]
World freshwater running out as population grows
When I was in high school, I worked for a local environmental advocacy group – canvassing throughout a warren of suburban neighborhoods on the issue of polluted underground aquifers that ran below those neighborhoods. While it was the kind of door to door work usually relegated to impressionable high-energy high school kids, our tight band […]
A Peek into the World’s Water Infrastructure
Only 2.5% of the total water available in the world is fresh and drinkable. Snow melts off the mountain peaks every year and run into the rivers that reroute into lakes and to our taps from thereon. These are the renewable sources that are vital to life on this planet. However, unluckily these are not […]
Information on How to Avoid Water Borne Diseases
Understanding that there is no such thing as ‘pure water’ helps defuse the panic that some people display when they learn that there is anything dissolved in water at all. All natural waters contain at least some dissolved chemicals, and much of this is beneficial to our health, as it supplies some of the trace […]
Prime Minister Exhorts Official Youth Organizations To Join Hands For Water Conservation
Better Coordination And Synergy Among The Organizations Stressed New Delhi (PIB-GR-TYP-BIN): The Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, on April 18 reviewed the functioning of official youth organizations, including the NCC, NSS, Bharat Scouts and Guides, Indian Red Cross Society, and NYKS. In the course of the two hour meeting, the Prime Minister repeatedly stressed the […]
Jeffrey Cohen Optical Guesses Tapping into the Waterways in the Sky
1888 Press Release – Specialty funding guru Jeff Cohen jolts the technology world by predicting atmospheric water harvesting is going to be a future big hit sector. While the United States Geological Survey (USGS) says 71% of earth’s surface is made up of water, the harsh reality is that only a small percentage of the […]