Lots of people make a strong case that the world is going to have to get a lot smarter about water, fast. A recent study in the journal Nature reports that ...
In a Fast Company cover story published in 2007, Fishman examined how the bottled water industry turned what was once a free natural resource into a ...
From the cotton field in rural India to the local rag bin, a typical pair of blue jeans consumes 919 gallons of water during its life cycle, Levi Strauss & ...
China has introduced the country's first national plan on groundwater pollution control, urging a combination of legal, economic, technological and ...
During the dry season from June to September, the village women in Morocco's mountain regions travel more than three hours every day to fetch water for their ...
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In September, the Coca Cola Foundation approved funding for the GWP Mediterranean project on ‘Rainwater Harvesting in the Cyclades Islands’. The project aims ...
The Water Futures Partnership is now open to new local and global partners. SABMiller, WWF and the German international development agency (GIZ) are inviting ...
The United States hopes to increase its dependency on Oil Sands production as an alternative energy source. With increasing oil prices and new technologies, ...
Dubbed "super sand", it could become a low-cost way to purify water in the developing world. The technology involves coating grains of sand in an oxide of a ...
Companies including Gap, Kraft and MillerCoors are all dealing with financial hits from water shortages and floods, according to news reports. The Gap cut its ...
Dr Reza Ardakanian is the Director of the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC). He was asked about achievements and activities related ...
Hydrovolts' new hydropower technology taps a plentiful but overlooked source of renewable energy from water currents in canals and channels around the world. ...
For people in developing countries, getting clean water to cook with, clean with, and drink, can be a difficult and dangerous task. Piet Hendrikse wanted to ...
The SolarBag purifies 3 liters at a time, and can be used several times per day, on sunny or cloudy days. It is simple to operate, using the sunlight to ...
ThermoEnergy targets the 27 EU economies that will be forced to make significant investments in their water treatment infrastructure to comply with wastewater ...
With WSP’s help, the Ministry of Public Works deployed 150 data collectors on motorcycles and equipped with phones using the FLOW software to map the rural ...
A fuel cell system that can generate electricity from organic compounds and clean up wastewater at the same time has been developed by scientists in China. ...
The map below will direct you to the Water Risk Atlas prototype for the Yellow River Basin in China. This prototype is not fully compatible with Internet ...