Category: Solutions
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‘Our water is our diamond’
Photo: White water lilies bloom in South Center Lake off the shore of Loren’s Park in Center City. Three cities — Chisago City, Lindstrom and Center City — are surrounded by the Chisago Lakes Chain of Lakes. Most of Lindstrom’s 3.5 square miles lie within the shoreland district. Photo Credits: Ann Wessel, BWSR As urban…
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California’s ‘dry farmers’ grow crops without irrigation
The environmentally conscious practice relies on rainwater to grow seasonal crops DECEMBER 18: Jim Leap is photographed on his property on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018, in San Juan Bautista, Calif. Leap grows grains, fruits, and vegetables on about one acre of his land using dry farming techniques. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) SAN JUAN BAUTISTA…
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Green water-purification system works without heavy metals or corrosive chemicals
This photo shows a concentrator where samples were placed. Credit: Dan Wang Scientists at the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and Yangzhou University (YZU) in Jiangsu have developed an effective and energy-efficient technique for purifying water by using graphitic carbon nitride sheets. Their prototype, presented February 7…
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Intel pledges decade of water leasing to protect Middle Deschutes
Deschutes River Conservancy’s water leasing program aims to restore, improve flows in the Middle Deschutes River downstream from Bend (Photo: Deschutes River Conservancy) Irrigation diversions can dry up river in summer BEND, Ore. – (Update: Funding amount not disclosed) The Deschutes River Conservancy announced Wednesday that its water leasing program has just secured funding from…
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Why the modern bathroom is a wasteful, unhealthy design
Piped water may be the greatest convenience ever known but our sewage systems and bathrooms are a disaster For centuries, the people of London and other big cities got their cooking and washing water from rivers or wells, limiting their consumption to pretty much what they could carry. They dumped their waste into brick-lined cesspits…
