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Popular Mechanics
April 22, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Who Owns the Rain? Hint: It's Not Always Homeowners While rain may seem like a global common, nowadays it depends on where you live: By capturing rainwater, some homeowners are breaking the law.   |
Scientific American
December 2006
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
The Challenge of Sustainable Water Water supplies around the world are already severely stressed. Population growth and global warming will only worsen those problems |
Wired
April 21, 2008
Matthew Power |
Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping. Water has been a serious issue in the developing world for so long, but the scarcity of freshwater is no longer a problem restricted to poor countries. |
Geotimes
May 2004
Lisa Robert |
Hijacking the Rio Grande: Aquifer Mining in an Arid River Basin A major dilemma for the modern Southwest: a choice between a future driven by rampant growth or by an obligation to hydrologic reality. |
Geotimes
May 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Western Aquifers Under Stress Although the rate of water consumption in the United States has not increased over the past five years, according to a recently released U.S. Geological Survey report, water problems are prevalent across the country. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Jean Kumagai |
Australia's Drought-Busting Water Grid In the driest continent, saving water means spending watts |
Geotimes
August 2006
Megan Sever |
When Levees Fail Many of the levees in the United States were built more than a century ago to protect farmland, and have been negligibly, if at all, maintained. For New Orleans, such a lesson came too late, but the city can still plan for the future. |
Popular Mechanics
February 5, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Plumbing the Planet: The 5 Biggest Projects Taking on the World's Water Supply Around the world, countries are trying to combat water supply problems with ever-more-clever engineering: bigger and badder treatment plants, pipelines, tunnels and reservoirs. Here are five projects hoping to be big and bad enough. |
Salon.com
August 28, 2002
Suzy Hansen |
Not a drop to drink Forget oil -- an expert on the world's water supply talks about the vital substance we will hoard, ration and probably go to war for in the near future. |
Outside
April 2007 |
Tapped This report introduces you to the water heroes who are reversing the water crisis woes and showing us how to keep the planet afloat. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
Roy Berendsohn |
Will Collecting Rainwater Save You Money? DIY Home Does it pay? Yes, in terms of environmental stewardship. No, on purely economic grounds. |
Geotimes
March 2004 |
Steady water use The rate of water consumption in the United States has not increased over the past five years, according to a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report released last week. |
Scientific American
June 2007
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Climate Change Refugees As global warming tightens the availability of water, prepare for a torrent of forced migrations. Economists, hydrologists, agronomists and climatologists will have to join forces to take the next steps in scientific understanding of this human crisis. |
Popular Mechanics
December 9, 2009
Adam Hadhazy |
Cutting Water Use to Curb Carbon Dioxide By taking water conservation further, and by thinking differently about how we treat and move water, analysts believe the U.S. can achieve dramatic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions fairly quickly. |
Geotimes
June 2005
Eloise Kendy |
Water Woes: Predictable But Not Inevitable Maintaining current streamflow patterns in the wake of land-use change requires preemptive engineering. Regardless of which approach is chosen, basic hydrologic principles are guidance enough to begin the process of informed decision-making and water-management planning. |
Chemistry World
April 8, 2015
Elisabeth Bowley |
Salty soil set to hamper Bangladesh crop production Salinity changes are a serious threat to agricultural in coastal Bangladesh |
Geotimes
August 2007
Megan Sever |
Restoring the River Since Katrina struck, one thing has become clear, researchers say: Restoration of the natural system is of paramount importance to saving New Orleans in the long run, and the time to act is now. |
This Old House
Jeanne Huber |
Back to Nature The greenest approach to landscaping returns a yard to its roots. |
Scientific American
October 24, 2005
Mark Fischetti |
Flood Control Protecting against the Next Katrina: Wetlands mitigate flooding, but are they too damaged in the gulf? |
Job Journal
August 20, 2006
Julia Hollister |
The Central Valley As agriculture evolves, so do careers in agriculture -- especially in California's Central Valley. |
National Gardening
Robert Kourik |
Graywater For Gardens The details for legal graywater use are drastically different from those unsanctioned systems of the late '70's. |
This Old House
Jeannie Ralston |
Harvesting the Water With Rain Barrels Catching and using rainwater can be a simple single plastic barrel with a gravity feed to a flower bed or a sophisticated system that supply all your water needs. Here's how each is built. |
Geotimes
April 2003
Kenneth R. Bradbury |
A Circuitous Path: Protecting Groundwater in Wisconsin Groundwater follows a winding path -- and one much faster than previously thought -- to municipal wells in the city of Sturgeon Bay, and it may pick up contaminants along the way. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Donald C. Swanson |
Don't Try to Fool Mother Nature Protecting and maintaining a city on a delta is confronting the dynamics of sediment and water responding to gravity, a basic force in the universe. Gravity-driven phenomena dominate the delta environment and are major guns in Mother Nature's arsenal. |
Home Toys
October 2004 |
Product Backgrounder: irriGuard The irriGuard system works with any existing sprinkler/irrigation system to shut off the system when watering is unnecessary. |
Inc.
June 1, 2003
Rod Kurtz |
Capital Gains While Sacramento isn't as glamorous as its Left Coast siblings, California's capital is striving to create an exciting business culture -- and it's working. |
This Old House
Keith Pandolfi |
4 Rain Barrel Options Old-fashioned rain barrels conserve water while supercharging your lawn and garden. |
Geotimes
May 2006
Avner Vengosh |
Rooting Out Radioactive Groundwater Given the continuous degradation of the quality of groundwater in many aquifers worldwide, and the increasing demand for using alternative water resources, the radioactivity factor may be more important than is realized. |
Popular Mechanics
October 19, 2007
Stephen Flynn |
5 Disasters Coming Soon If We Don't Rebuild U.S. Infrastructure In the wake of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, the author called on Congress to stop turning a blind eye to our crumbling public foundations. Here he reports on more cracks in American hardware that urgently need attention. |
