Worth a Look: Water Footprint
Waterfootprint Network Manual http://www.waterfootprint.org/downloads/WaterFootprintManual2009.pdf A PILOT IN CORPORATE WATER FOOTPRINT ACCOUNTING AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT: THE WATER FOOTPRINT OF A SUGAR-CONTAINING CARBONATED BEVERAGE http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Report39-WaterFootprintCarbonatedBeverage.pdf THE WATER FOOTPRINT OF SWEETENERS AND BIO-ETHANOL FROM SUGAR CANE, SUGAR BEET AND MAIZE http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Report38-WaterFootprint-sweeteners-ethanol.pdf Homepage: http://www.waterfootprint.org
Journal: Weak Signals–US Dirty Drinking Water
Millions in U.S. Drink Dirty Water, Records Show More than 20 percent of the nation’s water treatment systems have violated key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act over the last five years, according to a New York Times analysis of federal data. Phi Beta Iota: We alerted on this August 21, 2007 with our …
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Journal: $20M water desalination project in Iraq
Adding to installations in Oman and Egypt, India’s Shivsu Canadian Clear says its new plant in Baghdad is expected to convert 20 million liters per day. The company’s Vice President Satish Kumar told the Cleantech Group today that the Iraq installation uses reverse osmosis to convert seawater into potable water that has industrial and drinking …
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Journal: Water, Science, Politics, & the Middle East
Lack of Mid-East peace deepens water crisis By Natalia Antelava, BBC News, Berui, 13 October 2009 For the last two years Iraq, Syria, Jordan and parts of Turkey and Lebanon, have suffered from the devastating effects of the worst drought that the Middle East has experienced in decades. In addition to human suffering, the security …
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Worth A Look: Matt Damon Pumps Water.org
Speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative Conference, Matt Damon announced: Water.org commits to bringing safe dinking water and sanitation to a minimum of 50,000 people in Haiti overthe next three years. It will enhance awareness of good hygiene practices among local communities, and focus on integrating sustainable water resources management into community practices. Water.org co-founders …
Journal: CIA Blows–Blackwater, $5M Bar Bill, and Reprise of Rendition Atrocities
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is more of a laughingstock around the world than most realize. From being called “useful idiots” (tontos utiles) in Latin America to much, much worse in the Middle East, it appears to have become a bloated bureaucracy incapable of achieving anything of positive significance. Intelligence is an inherently governmental function, …
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