Global Water Week
October 8th, 2006 Posted by: Dr. Cox
As part of the launch tomorrow for global water week in Stockholm, the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is offering up a free “Water Tool” where by organizations can track their water usage, access country reports, mapping tools and do comparative evaluations. More information here.
In honor of this week below is other recent water related news. One developed country to keep an eye is Australia. They are facing some severe issues and their ability to solve those issues provide valuable lessons for the rest of us, see this story on their water shortage. It is great to see so much coverage, let’s keep the drum beat going:
Study: Toilets Need Radical Redesign, link
Water, Water Everywhere, but Guilt by the Bottleful, NY Times
Concerning the future of water purification, this came via David over at Microfranchising
Could Nanotechnology Help Purify Your Water? Link, A more detailed explanation here, link
Business for Water Conservation: Britta and Nalgene teaming up for profit
On the anti-bottled-water bandwagon, LA Times, via
An Ingenious Way To Turn Salt Water Into Fresh Water, link
School Bans Bottled Water…Where Do I Sign Up? Link
Bottled Water and Snake Oil, The Economist
Tap Water: On Its Way to Being Cool Again, EcoRazi - Green Gossip
Finally, the Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG) has had some great global health related posts up over the past two months. Be sure to check out their blog and more importantly their operations. Here are two water related graphs from their blog:
