TED: Birke Baehr: What’s wrong with our food system

This young man represents the beginning of a food revolution. What do you put in your mouth?

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BREAKING: Fracking Bill Passed in NY

Great news! Fracking is now illegal in New York State. Here is the body of a letter written by Dan Cantor, WFP Executive Director of the Working Families Party who had a critical role in the passing of the bill. Now, if we could only make it illegal EVERYWHERE! A little before 1:00 a.m. last night, [...]

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Vital Water Graphics

My wife found this great site a while back that contains a report by The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) entitled Vital Water Graphics. The report is essentially a graphic look at global water issues. Here are a couple of my favorite that also happen to be the most striking to me. I encourage you [...]

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Cycle for Water

Cycle for Water Check out these two Dutchmen riding bamboo bikes from the Arctic to tip of South America to Raise Awareness for the global water crisis. These guys are right up my ally. Sustainable bicycle materials with a dedication to contributing to a solution to the water crisis! I give these fellas a standing [...]

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Re-thinking Groundwater: The Water Budget Myth

I wanted to bring up an important topic that got some blog time on the AWRA blog a couple days ago. The post has to do with how we manage groundwater withdrawals. It deserves attention for a couple important reasons. First is that the traditional way of determining how much water to pump out of the ground [...]

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Newsweeks Piece “The New Oil” on Water Privatization Shines

Newsweek, The New Oil; Should private companies control our most precious natural resource? Newweeks piece on the privatization of the worlds water supplies includes stunning picture galleries of disappearing lakes and a great interactive that showcases beautiful areas of the world we’ll likely lose to climate change and changing precipitation patterns. Here is one of the gallery photos of Lake [...]

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Back Room Deals by The World Bank to Profit from Thirst

I received this letter from Corporate Accountability International. Water is a Human Right and should not be treated as a commodity for profits! Help if you can… Dear Tim, Do you know what the World Bank did this summer? Probably not — and that’s no accident. The World Bank just finalized a 100 million euro investment in the [...]

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NEWS: Groundwater Use Increasing Sea Level Rise

Yet another reason why groundwater should stay in the ground! Unless of course your putting it back in. Thanks to Katie for passing along this interesting article from seaweb.org. People are drawing so much water from below that they are adding enough of it to the ocean (mainly by evaporation, then precipitation) to account for [...]

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China is Making a Water Folly

A recent story in the LA Times, China moving heaven and earth to bring water to Beijing, describes the Chinese massive water works project to bring water from the wet south to the dry north. It’s called the South-to-North Water Diversion. It’s pointless for me to regurgitate the LA Times article, but it is important [...]

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Ned Breslin: Thinking Beyond the 2015 MDGs

Ned Breslin: Thinking Beyond the 2015 MDGs … Young girls like Anita, a 10-year- old from Mozambique, continuously miss school to instead scoop water from the top of a dirty puddle.  She hoists it on her head and returns home, passing the school where her friends are learning. And as she turns for home she [...]

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