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Fixing South Africa’s Water System, With Citizen Inspectors

Co.EXIST
April 29th, 2013

South Africa struggles with a faulty water infrastructure that fails to provide for its growing population. WaterWatchers is a new initiative hoping to address this issue by allowing citizens to report and track problems within the system.

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An Incredibly Detailed Map Shows The Potential Of Global Water Risks

Co.EXIST
February 1st, 2013

Through the alliance of companies such as GE and Shell, the World Resources Institute has created Aqueduct, the highest high-resolution map of global water stress available today.

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‘World’s First’ Community-Owned Tidal Turbine Set for Shetland

CleanTechnica
August 28th, 2012

The tidal turbine will be connected to an electricity grid and is intended to power a local ice plant and industrial estate. This project has been under development for three years and has received the assistance of the Community Energy Scotland and Shetland Islands Council.

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Wine Goes Green

The Solutions Journal Yobo Member
April 17th, 2012

One of the bumper stickers above my desk says “Nature makes a drought; man makes a shortage.” We may not be able to do anything about drought, but we can do something to manage the resulting scarcity.

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10 World’s Greenest Countries

Stumble Upon
December 29th, 2011

Here are the top ten countries on the list which have made most, officially the greenest in the world.

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Zimbabwe’s Farmers Dig In To Capture A Deluge

AlertNet
April 11th, 2013

Heavy rains in Zimbabwe first presented a challenge to farmers, but innovation has allowed communities to thrive and grow crops more successfully.

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Changing Sanitation In Rural India, From The Bottom Up

global envision
November 7th, 2012

The MANTRA project, based in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, helps to provide toilets and piped running water to communities where 85% of the population has no access to a toilet and 94% no running water.

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How to Save a Gallon of Water with Every Toilet Flush

PlanetSave
July 29th, 2012

I was so shocked at my own test of how much water I was wasting per toilet flush that I decided to shoot a video showing exactly how much water I was wasting and then showing how I save all that water after the quick fix. No special DIY skills needed.

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Is Your Business Idea Simple Enough?

Crain's New York Business
March 13th, 2012

Scott Harrison built a nonprofit called charity:water, based on Varick Street in Manhattan. Since its start in 2006, the group has raised more than $40 million to fund 6,185 projects, like wells and filtration systems, that bring clean water to more than 2.5 million people in 19 countries.

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Scientists Investigate Water Memory

OdeWire Yobo Member Video
December 20th, 2011

New research from the Aerospace Institute of the University of Stuttgart in Germany supports the theory that water has a memory—a claim that could change our whole way of looking at the world.