With a carbon footprint comes a water footprint. Every time you turn on the light switch, not only are you consuming energy and adding to your carbon footprint, you are also increasing your water footprint. Electricity production requires tremendous volumes of water to power steam-generated turbines and to cool equipment. In fact, more than [...]
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Trends in Water Use in the United States, 1950 to 2005 (http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/wateruse-trends.html This is my second guest blog post for Weather Underground, where I’ll be posting a series on the global water crisis over the next several weeks. Weather Underground is the first internet weather service, committed to delivering the most reliable, accurate [...] In this country, on average, we each use 99 gallons of water per day directly in our homes for cooking, cleaning, bathing, and watering our gardens and yards. Yet, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Our real water use comes in the way of water embedded in the food, clothing, energy, [...]
Water is getting scarce. This year has brought extreme drought, low snow packs, and record low stream flows in a number of river systems. We see Las Vegas waging water war with the open ranch lands to the north, Atlanta in protracted battles with downstream states over its primary water supply at [...] I’m thrilled to share with you the launch of my new book, Taking on Water: How One Water Expert Challenged Her Inner Hypocrite, Reduced Her Water Footprint (without Sacrificing a Toasty Shower), and Found Nirvana. It will be in bookstores on September 18th, but is available for pre-order from a number [...]
Photo by Michael (Creative Commons, username: fallsroad) Transporting and treating water to provide clean drinking water and treated wastewater is highly energy intensive. Water and wastewater treatment account for about 4% of U.S. annual electricity use (EPRI 2002), representing $14 billion of a $353 billion market (U.S. Energy Information [...] I’m thrilled to share news of my new book deal! Stay tuned: May 3, 2011, Non-fiction: Memoir Environmental scientist and founder of Water Futures, Wendy Pabich, Ph.D.’s TAKING ON WATER: How One Water Expert Challenged Her Inner Hypocrite, Reduced Her Water Footprint (without Sacrificing a Toasty Shower), and Found Nirvana, the author’s humorous and inspiring [...]
Photo courtesy of Britt Udesen (aka Idaho Squatcher). See her videos on YouTube. If you have a carbon footprint, you also have a water footprint. While the idea of calculating your carbon footprint has caught on and carbon calculators are all the rage (for good reason), few are paying attention [...] Source: EOL Encyclopedia of Life Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) studies nature’s best – its models, systems, processes, and elements, and emulates or takes inspiration from these designs to solve human problems. Mother Nature is our best guide, showing us how to harness solar energy like a [...] Water is heavy and difficult to move around. Yet, we pump it up from the ground, transport it great distances, treat it, use it, and mix it with wastes. Then, we treat it a second time, move it again, and ultimately discharge it, all of which consumes tremendous amounts of energy. To wit, [...] |
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