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The powerful Southern Nevada Water Authority, a direct competitor for Colorado River water against the behemoth Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, has a massive revenue shortfall and may have to raise water rates to meet it. This will certainly infuriate their water customers. Much of their revenue comes from connection charges for hooking [...] Magnetic soap (Credit: Image courtesy of Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL)) It may sound silly at first, but the discovery of magnetic soap could lead to a way to reclaim soaps used in industry and in disasters like oil spills. Scientists from the University of Bristol have developed a soap, composed of iron rich salts dissolved [...] Amazon In a past of abundance, we had clean water to meet our demands for showers, pools, farms and rivers. Our laws and customs did not need to regulate or ration demand. Over time, our demand has grown, and scarcity has replaced abundance. We don’t have as much clean water as we want. [...] Wired has a comprehensive, if unsettling, article about the growing water shortages across the planet. For example, by 2025 the entire Middle East could be “catastrophically low” on water. And will continue doing so until their extremely severe drought lifts. Kamen has invented numerous medical devices, the Segway, and more, and received multiple awards for doing so.. Everyone has been trying to find out more about his claim that “you stick a hose into anything that looks wet … and it comes out … as perfect distilled clean water.” So far as I can [...] The turbine is mounted underwater, on a tethered barge. So, not only is it portable, it requires no dams or other expensive investments, plus there’s very little needed in terms of regulatory processes. From the company, Hydro Green Power Hydro kinetic technologies describe the ability to produce zero emission renewable power (energy) from the [...] The diversion of water to Beijing for the Olympics and for big hydropower projects threatens the lives of millions of peasant farmers in China’s north-western provinces, according to a senior Chinese government official. The Chinese government plans to pump enornous amounts of water from the provinces to Beijing to flush out water from [...] Georgia wants to renegotiate their border with Tennessee, saying it was based on a faulty 1818 survey. Moving it would given them access to billions of gallons of water from the Tennessee River. Tennesseeans are saying they “will take our long rifles up to Lookout Mountain and fire when ready”, should this be attempted. [...] Reasons: Increased demand for water and climate change. If it does go dry, then Hoover Dam stops producing power and L.A. and Vegas will have severe water shortages. “We were stunned at the magnitude of the problem and how fast it was coming at us,” said Barnett in a statement. “Make no mistake, this [...] |  | ||||
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