Posts Tagged ‘water’

• A Drop of Life: Short film about water conflict

  “As I became aware of the mounting global water crisis, I realized that it represented a clash of cultures – between a culture that values water as a shared sacred source of all life and a corporate culture that regards …

• Cut back on the meat and help save the climate

  Photo credit: Marshall Astor – Food Pornographer Kathy Freston, a “self-help author and personal growth and spirituality counselor”, has posted an interesting article over at the Huffington Post about the consequences of eating meat. Or in this case if we …

• Eutrophication

  There are many environmental problems caused by human but not widely known. One of them is eutrophication. This phenomenon cannot be entirely characterised as water pollution, as it mostly describes the process of too many plants growing in lakes, rivers …

• Plastic water bottle advertising campaign from Brita

  A currently running advertising campaign from Brita, a German company that specializes in water filtration products, says in its ad slogan that “last year 16 million gallons of oil were consumed to make plastic water bottles.”

• A Picture is Worth… The Global Distribution of Water

  This graphic clearly shows the scarcity of water, especially drinkable freshwater, and what increasing global temperatures can result in. The graphic comes from UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme.

• Save water and money by using a shower timer

  Do you like to take long, and especially hot, showers regularly? Besides making your skin dryer you will also waste money and water (30% of all home water consumption is in the shower) on those long hot showers. But fear …

• 1 kilo meat = 15 000 litres of water

  Did you know that it takes 15 000 litres of water to produce one kilo meat from an animal who is being feed with grains. 150 litres of water is needed to produce one kilo of grains.