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Jun 28

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Coming to a City Near You

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Detroit’s Water War: a tap shut-off that could impact 300,000 people The Detroit Water Department’s needs to recoup millions of dollars to support the water utility, so they are going after the easiest targets – families. Meanwhile, Detroit’s high-end golf club, the Red Wing’s hockey arena, the Ford football stadium, and more than half of the city’s commercial and industrial users are also behind in their bills, owing a sum totalling $30 million. But no contractors have showed up on their doorstep to shut off their water. Guardian journalist Michael Lukacs tells a gut wrenching story about how people’s lives are…

Jun 27

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Canada’s Arctic Warming Fast

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National Action Plan is Needed As I packed my bags to depart for Canada’s North, I was confronted with the front page of Huffington Post. A full screen banner read “Canada is Melting.” In his article, Michael Bolen, reviews a 259 page report form the federal government that describes how Canada is warming at roughly the global average over the last half century. With no national plan for addressing climate change, he wonders how long we can keep our heads in the sand. As Prime Minister Stephen Harper said recently: “No matter what they say, no country is going to take actions…

Jun 27

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Water is a Human Right

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When Water Bills Aren’t Paid The future is being played out in Detroit right now. Half of the citizens of this once great city are unable to pay their water bills and advocates have applied to the United Nations for help. CBS Detroit describes the growing problem. Water and basic sanitation need to be considered basic human rights. This debate has been waged over and over in the halls of the UN. Last year a resolution was passed declaring water as a human right, but the United States failed to sign the treaty. When citizens of the world are unable to access basic water…

Jun 27

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Creative Solutions in Lima Peru

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Billboard Harnesses Water The University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) in Lima, Peru has partnered with advertising agency MAYO-DRAFT FCB to create an advertising billboard that grabs moisture from the desert air and converts it into filtered drinking water. Read more here.

Jun 22

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Segway Inventor Wants to Save Lives

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We could empty half of the hospital beds in the world with clean water Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, has turned his attention to the problem of providing clean water for our planet. Watch this video and be inspired! http://www.focusforwardfilms.com/contest/16/slingshot-paul-lazarus

Jun 21

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Arctic Bound

By Jill Heinerth | All Posts, Sedna Expedition, Sidemount Diving, Underwater Photo and Video, We Are Water, Women Underwater | No Comments

Getting Packed for the Sedna EPIC Expedition In just over a week I’ll be leaving for my Arctic Odyssey with the other women from the Sedna Expedition. I’ve been digging out all my cold weather gear and discovering some gems that have been long sitting in cases. Snow anchors and ice axes from ice training trips to the Rockies. Crampons and boots used in Antarctica. My trusted Canada Goose parka. They are all saturated with memories from amazing life experiences and learning opportunities. The anticipation of a trip is as great as the experience itself. Packing, testing and developing new gear are all…

Jun 17

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First Century Shipwreck

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On my travels in Croatia a couple of weeks ago I had the amazing opportunity to dive on a first century Roman shipwreck in Caska. A team of archaeologists were working hard on a month-long work season learning about this an d other ruins and wrecks in the region. This dates to the time of Pliny the Elder and I was amazed by the state of the wood in this vessel. Incredible!

Jun 15

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Water Education Tool for Kids

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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have teamed up to create the most comprehensive and amusing water-cycle diagram for kids and schools anywhere. Water Cycle Placemat for Kids – http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/146/pdf/gip_146_poster.pdf

Jun 07

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The Will

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The Will to Change I have often wondered why it is so difficult to enact solutions-oriented changes when it comes to our water resources. Nobody wants to pollute. Nobody wants to swim in a cesspool or drink water that is unhealthy. Yet, much of our society remains in denial regarding the severity of our water issues in America today. Partly as a result of the short political cycle, it is difficult to enact long term solutions. Society and our leadership prefer to value the present rather than look to the uncertain effects of the future. In their new book, Thomas…

Jun 01

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Changing Coastlines

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A Warming World Last summer’s Arctic Ice Melt is the greatest in recorded history. There is more open water in the Arctic than ever before. There is no sense in denying the obvious and as we plan for a warmer world, we will need to gauge the potential impacts on our fresh water resources. Conservation and long term resource management and protection is critical. Solutions will take far longer than a political term of office. It will require grassroots activism to keep water issues in the forefront of local and national agendas. What will your coastline look like in the…

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