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Time |
Water Jug Boy020816 Time
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AuBC |
Water Speculators Outlawed: Libs convention votes to outlaw water speculators
- The Liberal Party's national convention has passed a resolution blocking
speculators from participating in the water market.
- The motion put forward by NSW Senator Bill Heffernan, limits water
trading to people who can prove they need to use the water.
- Senator Heffernan says this includes farmers, irrigators, environmental
groups and urban communities, but not banks or foreign investors
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WSJ |
Water Date Stamped
- [Planned obsolescence: dated water-RSB]
- It's rough enough that the millions of Americans who buy bottled
water are paying for something that used to basically be free. But even harder
to stomach is the message that comes on the bottle: Like milk and eggs, water
now "expires."
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Time |
Water Privatization Ghana
- Backed by
the World Bank and the IMF, Ghana's government was readying its water system
for privatization.
- Under Amenga-Etego's model, the government
supplies a town with bulk water, and the local community handles distribution,
tariff collection and maintenance. Local management makes the system more
accountable, he believes: "It's putting power back into people's hands. Water
is life, and if people have control over their lives, they are empowered
to be more productive."
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Reuters |
Bottled Water Contaminated
- 'High Levels' of Bacteria Found in Bottled Water
- Overall, 40 percent of all samples showed evidence of contamination
with either bacteria or fungi. Bacteria could be grown in lab cultures from
21 samples.
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Bottlers, States and the Public Slug It Out in Water War
- The spring-water business is an old one: The first three-gallon jug
of water from the actual Poland Spring was sold for 15 cents in 1845, and
in western Maryland, Deer Park spring water was first bottled for railroad
passengers in 1873.
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The Beacon - A problem of thirst: America's freshwater is in jeopardy
... Source: WillksBeaconCon
- The problem is two-fold: Americans, and indeed people all over the
world, use too much water, and widespread climate change is manifesting as
drought in many regions
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About 300 gallons of water could be saved every month by placing a plastic
bottle filled with pebbles in the toilet tank, which causes less water to
be used with every flush. If you turn off the water while shaving and brushing
your teeth you can save six gallons of water a day. By shortening your showers
one or two minutes you can save up to 700 gallons of water per month, and
if you install a water-saving shower head or flow restrictor, you can save
an additional 500-800 gallons per month.
- By washing your dishes by hand you can save anywhere between 200-500
gallons of water in the kitchen by just filling one side of the sink up with
water that you will use for rinsing dishes. You can reduce the amount of
water used to rinse off detergent by using a smaller amount, which will save
50-150 gallons of water. If you do use the dishwasher or even the washing
machine, only wash full loads, because you can save 300-800 gallons of water
per month.
- When preparing a meal you can save 150-250 gallons of water per month
by filling up a bowl and dipping your vegetables in it instead of letting
the faucet run over them. You can also keep bottles of drinking water in
the refrigerator instead of getting it from the tap, because it saves 200
to 300 gallons of water a month.
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CommonDreams |
CommonDreams.org » Print » One of History’s Great Atrocities: The Corporate Theft of the Public’s Natural Right to Water
- The Growing Debate on who will Control the World’s Water
Supply
- An Innate Right
- Water is a Means to Life
- The “Blue Gold” of the 21st Century
- Water Privatization in the Western Hemisphere
- Mexico
- Stockton
- Walkerton
- Cochabamba
- The Price of a Bottle
- Water Democracy
- www.CommonDreams.org
- http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/01/8655/
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Ecology begins statewide rulemaking for rainwater collection
... Source: EcologyWaState
- Ecology doesn't require homeowners to obtain water right permits
to collect and store small amounts of rainwater.
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GroovyGreen |
Illegal Rain Barrels In Colorado
- Rain barrels there, you see, are outlawed. Colorado
state law mandates that any water falling from the air is not yours
- Additionally, any and all water that comes from tap may only be used
once. “Denver water customers are not permitted to take their bath or
laundry water (commonly referred to as gray water) and dump it on their outdoor
plants or garden.”
- The rain barrel is the bong of the Colorado garden. It’s
legal to sell one. It’s legal to own one. It’s just not legal to
use it for its intended purpose.
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Reuters |
Greece Water To Spain
- Parched Cyprus took its first delivery
of water by ship from Greece on Monday to stave off a drought which has sapped
water reserves to critically low levels and triggered emergency
rationing.
- Cyprus has one of the highest concentrations of reservoirs in the
world, but they were only 7.2 percent full on Monday, containing 19.7 million
cubic metres of water
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