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4:46 pm in artists, arts, Culture & Celebrity, drinking water, exhibits, italy, turkey by TreeHugger
Ayşe Erkmen's 'Plan B.' Photo: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV).
Water-treatment plants might not seem to have much aesthetic potential. But Turkish sculptor Ayşe Erkmen is making a splash at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Read the full story on TreeHugger
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12:15 pm in activism, drinking water, Take Action, water crisis by TreeHugger
Photo by dr_relling via Flickr CC
A nine-year-old girl created a MyCharityWater campaign for her birthday in June, hoping to raise $300 to provide clean water for those in need. Tragically, she was killed in a car accident. The outpouring of grief and support by nearly 10,000 people for her family after her untimely death has created a phenomenal amount of hope for others. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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10:35 am in africa, concepts & prototypes, Design & Architecture, drinking water, water crisis by TreeHugger
image via YouTube video screengrab
When it comes to drilling new wells for water, the cost can be prohibitive as heavy machinery needs to be brought in to do the digging. However, a team of students from Brigham Young University came up with a human-powered solution that can dig wells in villages inexpensively. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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4:52 pm in china, drinking water, epa, Food & Health, food safety by TreeHugger
Image: Hyougushi via flickr
You'd think the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would have established limits on things like arsenic and heavy metals in our food supply by now. There are limits for certain specified foods, but most items fall through the cracks—including popular, kid-friendly beverages like apple juice. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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10:10 am in africa, drinking water, Science & Technology, Travel & Nature, water crisis by TreeHugger
Photo by Oxfam East Africa via Flickr CC
An epic drought is taking place on the Horn of Africa. As Mat reported last week, "Overall at least 10 million people in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia are affected," and things are only getting worse. The Guardian has updated a map illustrating which areas are affected, to what extent, and how many people are being uprooted. Check it out after the jump....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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9:58 am in Business & Politics, drinking water, News, Take Action, water conservation by TreeHugger
Sewage-choked Fountain Creek empties into the clear waters of the Arkansas
River in Pueblo, Colorado. Photo by Ross Vincent, Sierra Club.
The Sierra Club has long had activists in Washington, DC, working to enact laws and policies that will protect our air, land, and water. So while I had been thinking that the Republicans (and some Democrats) in the House of Representatives seemed particularly aggressive about attacking the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies and policies to repeal environmental laws, this quote fr...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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1:45 pm in drinking water, Science & Technology, water crisis by TreeHugger
Photo by Jon Gos via Flickr CC
Knowing if there are issues with the quality of water in a given area starts with the ability to test it. Unfortunately, many areas lack the financial ability to regularly test water supplies. A device called Water Canary wants to change that, putting data in the hands of those who need it through an inexpensive tool, and offering the open-source community a chance to adapt and perfect it for local areas. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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10:29 am in africa, Business & Politics, drinking water, united nations by TreeHugger
Photo: Tony Young under a Creative Commons license.
Lake Victoria is vital to the livelihood of about 30 million people in East Africa. But as the region urbanizes, pollution levels in the lake have increased and access to clean water for disadvantaged populations is far from a sure thing. So the governments of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, with the help of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) have stepped in with an ambitious initiative to protect local ecosystems and ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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10:52 am in drinking water, Food & Health, Science & Technology, water crisis by TreeHugger
Circle of Blue has an outstanding article about America's problem with too much arsenic in the water.
"A decade after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took aggressive action to limit arsenic in American drinking water, the agency, in its latest assessment published in January, reports that nearly 1,000 water systems serving 1.1 million people are still not in compliance."
Read the full piece on Circle of Blue....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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7:50 pm in canada, concrete, drinking water, environmental footprint, ontario, Take Action by TreeHugger
Image: Rabble.ca. Proposed mega-quarry deeper than Niagara Falls
As Lloyd detailed in an earlier post on the enormous ecological footprint of concrete, a US-owned hedge fund is proposing a mega-quarry in Melancthon, about an hour and a half away from Toronto. It's an area best known for its excellent agricultural land and favourable micro-climate, but if the project goes ahead, thousands of acres will ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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