Shower recycles and heats water

An innovative new shower purifies and reuses water, reheating it in the process. Potential water and electricity savings potentially can be large, especially in big households. The technology is the same as used on spacecraft. Downside is it is expensive…

Groundwater pumping causing California Central Valley to sink

California has mostly nonexistent rules regulating groundwater pumping. Other western states regulate the amount of water that can be pumped up from wells. California’s negligence here (and it is negligence) combined with the ongoing nasty drought is causing land to…