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Water and Environmental Issues

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1. 20. Bottled Water: A Global Environmental Problem | Project Censored
2. Ottawa Student Could Make Water Desalination 600-700% More Efficient : TreeHugger
3. LifeStraw® - Purifying Water
4. Comments

1. 20. Bottled Water: A Global Environmental Problem | Project Censored

   Consumers spend a collective $100 billion every year on bottled water in the belief—often mistaken—that it is better for us than what flows from our taps. Worldwide, bottled water consumption surged to 41 billion gallons in 2004, up 57 percent since 1999.
   
   

   http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/20-bottled-water-a-global-environmental-problem/

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2. Ottawa Student Could Make Water Desalination 600-700% More Efficient : TreeHugger

   Water For All The Economist recently published a very good primer on water desalination. It contains some cautious prediction about future growth of thermal and membrane desalination plants, but all of that could change if Mohammed Rasool Qtaisha, a chemical engineering PhD student at the University Ottawa, has his way. He founded Water for All with the goal of turning seawater into drinking water on a large scale, and it seems like he has a breakthrough.
   
   

   http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/06/water-desalination-ottawa-student.php

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3. LifeStraw® - Purifying Water

   Half of the world's poor suffer from waterborne disease, and nearly 6,000 people - mainly children - die each day by consuming unsafe drinking water. LifeStraw® water purifiers have been developed as a practical way of preventing disease and saving lives, as well as achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe water by the year 2015.
   
   

   http://www.vestergaard-frandsen.com/lifestraw.htm

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