Bottled Water Trumps Milk, Nears Beer
Twenty years ago, people scoffed at the notion that highfalutin bottled water made by companies like Perrier and Crystal Springs would ever catch on with the masses. Why would people pay for something they could get at the kitchen sink for next to nothing, the doubters asked?
Boy were they wrong. For the first time ever, Americans on average drank more bottled water in 2006 than milk, according to an industry newsletter that tracks U.S. beverage sales.
And Americans drank nearly as much bottled water as beer.
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HDPE Pipes – Sustainable Solution For Water Crisis In India
The Indian Subcontinent and Water Crisis India is the 7 th largest country by geographical area and the second most populous country in the world. Of India's 1.1 billion people, almost 70 % of the Indians reside in rural areas, though in recent decades migration to larger cities has led to the exponential rise in the urban population.
As per the World Watch Institute, India will be highly water stressed country from 2020, as the availability of water per person per annum has been reduced from 6500 cubic meters to 2500 cubic meters. India suffers from massive regional variations in its water situation. Nearly one third of the country is drought prone, while one fourth of the country is prone to floods and surface water logging after normal monsoons. At the same time the use of rainwater and floodwater started to decline. In its place, there is a growing reliance on surface water and groundwater.
Water is the only natural resource which has no substitute unlike Petroleum and natural gas. India's future in water will be decided by our commitment to install leak proof, maintenance free systems, not by our capacity to waste water.
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China Kicks Off Inspection Of Water Resources In Tibet
Amid concerns in India and Bangladesh over China's plans to construct a dam on the Brahmaputra in Tibet, Chinese officials today started an inspection of how water from the Himalayan region's major rivers, including Yarlung Zangbo is used.
Officials from the environment and resources committee of the Tibet Autonomous Regional People's Congress (local legislature) kicked off a large-scale examination of how water from the region's five major rivers is used.
"As part of a nationwide environmental protection drive, the campaign will be the longest and most wide-ranging examination of the region's use of water resources," Xinhua news agency quoted the deputy director of the standing committee of the Tibet Autonomous Regional People's Congress, Luosang Toinzhub as saying in Lhasa.
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Supplying the World's Energy Needs with Light and Water
A leading chemist says that a better understanding of photosynthesis could lead to cheap ways to store solar energy as chemical fuel.
While researchers and technologists around the world scramble to find cleaner sources of energy, some chemists are turning to nature's own elegant solution: photosynthesis. In photosynthesis, green plants use the energy in sunlight to break down water and carbon dioxide. By manipulating electrons and hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon atoms in a series of complex chemical reactions, the process ultimately produces the cellulose and lignin that form the structure of the plant, as well as stored energy in the form of sugar. Understanding how this process works, thinks Daniel Nocera, professor of chemistry at MIT, could lead to ways to produce and store solar energy in forms that are practical for powering cars and providing electricity even when the sun isn't shining.
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Lebanon: $20 Million from the World Bank for Electricity, Water
Lebanon and the World Bank have signed two agreements to rehabilitate the electricity sector and complete a water network in the Western Bekaa Valley, An Nahar reported Tuesday.
It said that Finance Minister Jihad Azour told reporters during the signing ceremony at the Grand Serail Monday that a plan to reform the electricity sector will be active in June if endorsed by the cabinet.
He said that the proposed project will also need the approval of the Bank's board of directors.
"Reforms have started on all fronts which do not require the approval of parliament," Azour said.
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