Water/Air/Soil

In Space: Saving Water = Drinking Recycled Water from Urine?

Don Pettit doesn’t mind drinking his own urine or his sweat, for that matter. Pettit is far from insane. As an astronaut, he has no choice but to drink all available fluids. Welcome to extreme water recycling.

“You make water inside your body, through your breath and your sweat,” explains Pettit, a veteran NASA astronaut who has lived on the International Space Station for six months. “On the ISS you capture all of that water and recycle it.”

Astronauts are each allowed only 3.5 liters of water per day – for hygiene and food combined. They wash themselves using wet wipes, and so they consume 92% less water on hygiene than Earth-dwellers.

Deformed Fish Raise Oilsands Concerns: PM Petitioned to Launch Probe into Health of Fish

EDMONTON - Deformed fish spawned a united call Thursday for a long-term study into the health of fish living downstream of oilsands development in Alberta.

Fishermen, scientists, First Nations chiefs, health professionals and residents signed the request sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. "Fishers have noted that the incidence and frequency of unhealthy fish within their catch has increased substantially over time," says their letter.

PEI Residents Can Access Online Water Data

***PEI RESIDENTS CAN ACCESS ONLINE WATER DATA***

Prince Edward Islanders can now go online to review and search the latest drinking water and surface water information in their communities and local watersheds, says Minister of Environment, Energy and Forestry Richard Brown.

“Government is providing access to public data about the quality and quantity of water in their local watersheds,” said the minister. “This is an important step towards improving public education on protecting water quality.”

The department’s website now contains a link leading to water data, said Mr. Brown.

Vote OUT Fluoride!

Vote OUT Fluoride...because this is where the fluoride in your drinking water comes from.

Report: Toxins Found in Whales Bode ill for Humans

American scientists who shot nearly 1,000 sperm whales with tissue-sampling darts discovered stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals in the animals that they say could affect the health of both ocean life and the millions who eat seafood.

DIY: Create a Low-Maintenance Lawn

Although conventional lawns are still a very popular landscape feature, more and more Canadians are seeing the benefits of a low-maintenance lawn.

Low-maintenance lawns, require less mowing, fertilizing and watering and less general upkeep. In fact, a Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) study showed that a sample of residents with low-maintenance lawns used 50% less time, 85% less money, 50% less fuel, 100% less water, 100% fewer pest ic ides and 85% less fertilizer per year than those with conventional lawns.

Planting your lawn

Yangtze River Dam Endangers Fish Population

 In December of 2006 it was announced that the Yangtze River dolphin, commonly known as the baiji, had succumbed to extinction. The dolphin had survived on earth for 20 million years, but the species couldn't survive the combined onslaught of pollution, habitat loss, boat traffic, entanglement in fishing hooks, death from illegal electric fishing, and the construction of several massive dams. Now, another flagship species of the Yangtze River appears to have vanished. 

Good News Story for Water Desalination Technique

Research by two scientists suggests and easier and cheaper way of desalination of seawater.

Climate Change and Availability of Water?

Report connects water scarcity and business

Climate Change and Availability of Water?
Dateline Toronto, October 14, 2009

Creating Our Paradise in its weekly series of educational webinars recently focused on the historical, cultural and modern day use of water (http://www.creatingourparadise.org/events/webinars/culture-and-use-water...).The topic examined how water was and still is used in our lives and what impact derives from this usage.  

Lithium in water 'curbs suicide'

The protective effect could be the result of years of drinking this water. Drinking water which contains the element lithium may reduce the risk of suicide, a Japanese study suggests.

Researchers examined levels of lithium in drinking water and suicide rates in the prefecture of Oita, which has a population of more than one million. The suicide rate was significantly lower in those areas with the highest levels of the element, they wrote in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

High doses of lithium are already used to treat serious mood disorders.

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