By Tyler Durden The city of Las Vegas, New Mexico, has 20 days of fresh water left, and officials are searching for alternative sources to prevent contaminated water from flowing to households and businesses, according to CNN. Not to be confused with Las Vegas, Nevada, the…
By Neenah Payne Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, former chairman of the Nestle Group, said in 2005 that access to water is not a human right! Coca Cola, Poland Spring, and other bottlers are threatening the water supply. California and the Southwest face record life-changing droughts. China has…
By Mac Slavo Low water levels in the western states are causing a problematic crop yield. But they also impact our energy supply and push the power grid to the brink. When temperatures rise and water levels drop, the energy sector gets squeezed hard. The…
By Mayukh Saha Morocco is home to the world’s largest functioning fog-harvesting technology in the world, the CloudFisher net. The technology was developed by engineer, Peter Trautwein, who hails from the German Water Foundation. The technology is almost similar to a spider’s web that is…
By Tyler Durden Britain has recorded one of its hottest and driest summers on record. Rivers and reservoirs are drying up as towns in the southern part of the country imposed the first hosepipe ban on Friday. The country’s record heat in July — above 104 Fahrenheit…
By Tyler Durden The city of Las Vegas, New Mexico, has less than two months of drinking water after a massive wildfire contaminated a river the town pulls from, according to local news KOAT 7. Not to be confused with Las Vegas, Nevada, the 13,000-person city…
By Tyler Durden How tough are things getting globally? Well, a new “admired” beer that’s breaking through in Singapore is being made from “recycled sewage”. What part in the global macroeconomic cycle is this again? The beer, called “NEWBrew”, is a “collaboration between the country’s national…
By Ice Age Farmer As irrigation districts and municipal suppliers cut water allocations in the ‘mega drought,’ we must use strategies to maximize our use of each drop. In this talk, Christian introduces concepts from rainwater harvesting, greywater systems, sunken beds and earthworks, soil infiltration/holding,…
by RT.com Excerpts: Outraged farmers threatened to disrupt a federal order to stop the flow of irrigation water from a lake amid a severe drought in the US state of Oregon. Farmers are protesting because they own the water in the Upper Klamath Lake, farmer…
By Ice Age Farmer The WATER WARS have begun: the state is simply turning off the water to farms and ranches, depriving them of water needed to grow food and raise animals. This will create food shortages by design, in order to then point at…
By Fabian Ommar It’s official: Brazil is facing drought. Earlier this month, the government issued a hydric emergency alert (AEH) for five of the twenty-seven federative units. It’s the first in over a century – more precisely, 111 years – which tells something about the…
By Rosanne Lindsay, Naturopath Water is the great unifier. Water equals life. Water makes up 70% of the Earth’s surface, and 70% of the human body by weight. On a molecular level, humans are 99% water. Humans are water beings. We are born out of…
