http://purewaterlab.org/blog PWL progress & thoughts on education and pure water supply Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:17:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en See this site www.waterfootprint.org and estimate how much water you use compared to people in other countries - your “water footprint.” http://purewaterlab.org/blog/?p=65 The cover of the August 2008 issue of Scientific American magazine says “Running Out of Water, a Six-Point Plan to Avert a Global Crisis,” and the cover story is “Facing the Freshwater Crisis” by Peter Rogers www.sciam.com/sciammag http://purewaterlab.org/blog/?p=64 From CD-adapco’s magazine Dynamics, issue 2.01, p. 41: “The largest single product of the global oil and gas industry is neither oil nor gas, but water: produced at a rate of approximately 3 barrels of water to every barrel of oil, in 1999 the oil and gas industry was responsible ... http://purewaterlab.org/blog/?p=63 The Palo Alto Research Center has a device that purifies water by centripetal force, apparently. Link: http://news.cnet.com/2300-1008_3-6236355-3.html?tag=ne.gall.pg http://purewaterlab.org/blog/?p=62 The Water Standard Company http://www.csengin.org/ has developed a “seawater desalination vessel.” This is a ship that can anchor off shore and provide drinking water to residents on land in response to water supply emergencies. Reverse osmosis is used. http://purewaterlab.org/blog/?p=61 A New Mexico startup company, Altela, is developing a method to recover pure water from crude oil, as discussed in the Green Tech blog at CNET News. Link to the article: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9954182-54.html. Link to Altela: http://www.altelainc.com/. http://purewaterlab.org/blog/?p=60 Article about fresh water crisis around world. See especially section about Intel semiconductor fabs in Chandler, Arizona. Article by M. Power in May 2008 issue of Wired Magazine. www.Wired.com http://purewaterlab.org/blog/?p=58 “A water crisis in the Western United States is primarily due to manmade global warming, and it could force difficult choices for the region as farmers, residents and biofuel producers fight for their share of water. Sixty percent of the changes in the West’s water cycle are due to increased ... http://purewaterlab.org/blog/?p=57 “it takes between 3,000 gallons and 6,000 gallons of water to power a 60-watt incandescent bulb for 12 hours a day over the course of a year. That statistic was published on Thursday by researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, who have studied how demand for a dwindling ... http://purewaterlab.org/blog/?p=56 See this article “Experts seek answers on water footprint ” by A. Max, Associated Press, Thursday Mar 27, 2008. Excerpt: “The threat of climate change has drawn attention to carbon footprints, the amount of greenhouse gases produced by human activity. Now scientists have begun calculating a water footprint, the amount ... http://purewaterlab.org/blog/?p=55