Category: Solutions
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How a Girl Scout inspired a health care giant to ditch plastic straws
Photo: Shutterstock Most people don’t use plastic straws at home, so why are they so commonplace in restaurants? That was California teenager Shelby O’Neil’s revelation after watching a television spot for her state’s largest health care provider, Dignity Health. She didn’t keep that question to herself, instead composing an email that wound up in the…
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Water treatment for cement plant wastewater
Highlighting the importance of water treatment for cement plant wastewater. A cement plant wastewater treatment system has to be highly effective in order to remove the minute particulate that remains after cement production. This task becomes even more important when a closed system – the industry standard – is in place and the waste water…
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Drinking Tap Water Might Be Simplest Solution to Ocean Plastic Pollution
Is the solution to plastic water bottle pollution as simple as educating the masses that their tap water is safe to drink? Photo: Elite Reader Beaches are beautifully serene places. Imagine waves rolling in over a beautiful white sand beach in a calming splash. Relaxing, no? Now imagine a place where the sand is covered…
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Idaho on pace to set aquifer recharge record during 2017–18 season
Photo: Storage water is recharged this fall into New Sweden Irrigation District’s reservoir. Through the first part of December, the Idaho Department of Water Resources is on pace to recharge a record amount of water into the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer in Southern Idaho. COURTESY IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES The Idaho Water Resource Board…
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Hirst decision protects salmon and water rights for farmers, tribes
Water rights across Washington is an extremely complex area of law, and it affects all of us. So what is the fair and equitable distribution of this most precious resource? As Washingtonians, one of our core principles is standing up for a just society, and that includes defending people’s civil rights. We fight for the…
