The Environmental Protection Agency is changing drinking water standards to impose stricter limits on four specific contaminants which can cause cancer. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said that the agency is developing stricter regulations for: tetrachloroethylene, trichloroethylene, acrylamide and epichlorohydrin. Trichloroethylene, also known as TCE, and tetrachloroethylene are usually used as industrial solvents and can seep [...]
Mountains of salt are spread on snowy roads in North America every winter, despite the fact that environmentalists have been warning against it for years. Well, studies are piling up, indicating indeed that the cost may be too high. Martin Mittelstaedt reports in the Globe and Mail about a new study of Frenchman’s Bay, a [...]
January 6, 2010 – 6:29 pm
Israel has begun to look beyond its lack of natural resources and has decided to take the lead in water technology. A growing number of Israeli firms have their eyes on overseas markets, offering their expertise in such forums as desalination technology, sewage-eating bacteria and wastewater treatment. “Israel is definitely one of the leaders, if [...]
December 28, 2009 – 8:03 am
For years, the energy industry has argued to the nation’s courts and Congress that the federal law which protects drinking water shouldn’t be applied to hydraulic fracturing, the industrial practice which is essential to extracting the nation’s vast natural gas reserves. In 2005 Congress finally passed a law prohibiting such regulation. Now it has been [...]
December 10, 2009 – 6:55 pm
Sometimes it takes a little retro-active research to complete the picture. I do not know how we here at NaturalBuy.com missed this, but as a note for next year, we’ll stick it in now. November 19th was World Toilet Day. On this day we remind ourselves that 2.5 billion people around the globe do not [...]
September 14, 2009 – 2:50 am
Dean Kamen, the inventor of the admittedly dorky, yet somehow cool Segway, is at it again. This time, he has invented the Slingshot. “We believe the world needs a slingshot to take care of its Goliath of a problem in water. So we decided to build a small machine and give it to the little [...]
August 27, 2009 – 10:22 am
While we’re all freaking out about swine flu and other bacterial microbes that have the potential to make us seriously ill or worse, the scientific community has figuring out how to use bacteria to purify salt water into drinkable fresh water. Sounds crazy? It is. The world is crazy, and don’t expect it to slow [...]
Worried by drought? Well, stop it. Put it this way. Have you ever noticed that when you put an ice-filled glass outside on a humid day, water starts appearing on the outside? This is humidity from the air condensing on the glass. There are countless gallons of water wisping around the air even in the [...]
December 17, 2008 – 2:36 pm
National Geographic always knows how to deliver amazing photos and mesmerizing stories. It’s a feast to the eyes.
December 15, 2008 – 11:18 am
A new Dutch breakthrough invention makes it possible to reforest large desert and rocky areas on the planet in the coming years. Experiments in the Sahara desert have shown that the WaterBoxx allows trees to grow under harsh conditions and can provide them with sufficient water. The WaterBoxx looks like a plastic, rectangular bucket, with [...]
