World Water Day (60 Good Water Posts)

Today is World Water Day. We’ve written quite a number of water-related posts on Planetsave over the years, and other sites on the Important Media network have as well. For this year’s World Water Day, I decided to compile and share a number of those (mostly from Planetsave) all in one post, rather than write yet another article on one or two aspects of this important topic. So, here they are, organized by sub-topic a bit.

Of course, there’s a bit of potential overlap and I did put a few articles under more than one sub-topic, but not many.

Water & Energy

• Water & Energy Facts (Blog Action Day on Water)
• New Microhydro Book is THE Microhydro Book
• Cotton, Silver and Electricity can Kill Bacteria in Water
• ‘Fracking’ Violates Safe Drinking Water Act, Congressional Letter Charges
• New Low Energy Water Treatment Purifies, Desalinates and Makes Hydrogen, Too
• Nuclear Power Plant’s Water Rights Threaten Endangered Species
• French Uranium Leak Fouls Drinking Water and Two Rivers

Drinking Water

• The Manufactured Demand for Bottled Water
• Donate Your Birthday for Clean Drinking Water
• 10 Water Facts
• Taking Back the Tap: One Oregon County Shuns the Bottle
• Recycled Drinking Water
• Where the Water Is
• Halosource Raises $80 Million and Expanding Clean Water Services
• Be Truly You… Fall In Love With Your Tap Water
• Blog Action Day Reminds Us — “Water is Life”
• Justin Bieber Helps Developing Nations with Clean Drinking Water on His Birthday
• House of Representatives Still Drinking Bottled Water, Costing U.S. Nearly $1 Million a Year
• ‘Fracking’ Violates Safe Drinking Water Act, Congressional Letter Charges
• High Carcinogenic Chromium Levels Found in Many Cities’ Tap Water
• New Low Energy Water Treatment Purifies, Desalinates and Makes Hydrogen, Too.
• New Nano-tech Device Takes Salt Out of Sea Water
• Do You Take Drugs – In Your Drinking Water?
• Water: Nature’s Wonderdrug–Now with Wonderdrugs! (cartoon)
• Study: 77 Million in Bangladesh Have Arsenic in Their Drinking Water
• Gender-Bending Chemicals in Minnesota Waters
• Drink Your Pee!: The Future of Water Filtration
• Drugs In My Bottled Water Too
• Just in case you needed another reason not to drink bottled water…
• PepsiCo cops to the news: Aquafina bottled water is from the tap
• Unsafe Water Kills More People than War: Study

Water Crisis (aka Global Warming & Unsustainable Water Use Threatening the World — so is pollution, but that’s covered above)

• Water Mining & Global Warming Making Sea Levels Rise
• 10 Water Facts
• Coral Reefs Gone by 2100?
• Sana’a 1st City to be Out of Water?
• Hell on Earth
• Global Warming News of the Week — Focus on Food & Water
• Global Drought Predicted by Century’s End – “Unprecedented Consequences”
• Large Swaths of the World are Drying Up
• 50% Chance Colorado River Reservoirs Will Run Dry by 2057 — Under Current Scenario
• River Ruin – 80% of World’s People Face Water Insecurity
• An Afternoon of Golf: A Real Water Hazard!
• Groundwater Disappearing at Accelerating Rate

Water & Health

• 10 Water Facts
• Cool Health Benefits of Water on the Topic of Blog Action Day
• Blog Action Day Reminds Us — “Water is Life”

Conserving Water

• 10 Simple Ways to Conserve Water
• Water Footprint Calculator
• Saving the Great Lakes
• Take Cold Showers (Going Green Tip #13)
• Reducing Urban Water Use
• Go Vegetarian or Vegan! (Going Green Tip #3)
• Raising Water Productivity to Increase Food Security
• 5 Water Solutions That Could Change the World!
• Top Ten Water Saving Tips

Other

• Our Water Planet – How Much Do You Know?
• Visualizing Sustainable Water Resource Management
• Large Dams Can Affect Local Climate
• Text Me A River – Real-Time Water Alerts
• Did Earth’s Water Arrive on a Meteor?
• Top Colleges Working Together to Solve Nation’s Water Woes
• Shit Happens…
• Who Does Rainwater Belong To?

Photo via * Cati Kaoe *