The Environmental Working Group (EWG) in the USA are doing a competition with respect to Bottled Water.
Entries Information: Help us study bottled water labels and win a 100% organic cotton shopping bag and a Klean Kanteen water bottle! Entries should be postmarked on or before Friday, March 7.Here’s what you do to enter the contest:
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This post has nothing whatsoever to do with water except that you might get wet doing what’s suggested especially in London.There’s a fascinating website called Walkit from a UK company. Here’s how it works…You decide to go for a walk in London and you want to have a map of the walk … in the […]
Sure, it sounds like a joke and will probably turn out that way but here’s something new…A new nanocoating for garments seems to potentially offer to let woolen and silken items clean themselves. It is easy to damage sensitive articles in washing so this new technology is being punted as a way to remove stains […]
If you own a fish pond then sooner or later you will need to know how much water it holds. This is to allow especially for medication of sick fish when dosing levels are important.
Well I’ve made this easy using an Excel calculator which you get free here … click for pond calculator.
The basis for […]
People in the USA are buying more and more bottled water.The bottled water industry is worth $4 billion-a-year business in the USA alone. For some reason which does not make too much sense millions of consumers pay between 240 and 10,000 times more per gallon of bottled water compared to the cost of tap water.Some […]
An indication of drought conditions is when rivers and streams run at lower than normal levels. In the USA the USGS (United States Geographical Survey) provide a daily graphical report showing a map of the USA and highlighting areas of drought. The map is color-coded to highlight the relative severity of the drought.As an example […]
As mentioned previously hard water results in less than bright laundry, dull hair, tide marks around the bath and scaling of kettles and other systems for electrically heating water using a coil in contact with water.You can see a map of hard water areas here: for UK and for USATo get specific information for your […]
Farming consumes 87% of the fresh water used in the world.Rain is the result of evaporation from the seas and lakes and rivers and the land. We’re lucky even though only 14% of water evaporates from the land we receive in terms of rainfall 24% of the total evaporation.People need only half a gallon or […]
I’ve just come across an excellent and interesting article that provides the historical (goes back to 1767) background to solar heating and how this can correlate to the greenhouse effect the earth is experiencing. The full story can be seen by clicking the link at the end of this short post. The first solar […]
I came across an interesting article on bottled water which makes the very strong point that bottled water is not what it is made to seem like … especially by the manufacturers and distributors. You can read the full article here but some of the essential points are:
1 To make a single plastic bottle that […]
