Meat From Animals Raised in Water-Scarce Areas Can Affect Virtual Water The video below traces the virtual water — or embedded water — it takes to produce US meat and ethanol to better understand potential risks in water-scarce areas. The video explains the results of a study by University of Minnesota researchers who looked at […]
Toxic Algae is a Problem for Drinking Water Toxic algae has made Iowa’s Des Moines River “essentially unusable” for drinking water without intensive — and expensive — treatment, Des Moines Water Works leaders said. To get the river up to drinking water standards requires huge effort and costs to remove the toxin that comes from […]
Water Conservation Activities in the US Water conservation activities in the United States most often include asking people to change their habits and behaviors in and around their houses. Activities like taking shorter showers and turning off the water when they brush their teeth – in other words, limiting tap water use – generally make […]
Craft Brewery Recycles Toilet Water Craft Breweries use a lot of water to make their beer: they use water to irrigate barley and hops and to process their beer. On average, North American breweries use seven gallons of water to make one gallon of beer. To lessen this burden, a handful of breweries have experimented with treated wastewater […]
The NYC Watershed Protection Program The NYC Watershed Protection Program is working well but now must change to meet the coming challenges climate change will present, according to a recent evaluation by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS). The city’s drinking water system supplies about 1 billion gallons of water a day […]
COVID-19 Exposes Water Problems for Native Americans For some Native Americans, water scarcity and lack of clean drinking water access within homes has made the spread of COVID-19 even worse. The Navajo Nation, for example, has become a coronavirus hot spot that even surpassed New York State for the highest per capita infection rate countrywide. […]
Water waste is hard on our water supply and our sustainability. Reducing water waste in the kitchen is not as hard as you might think. Some simple steps can help you be more sustainable and efficient in your water use. Want to reduce water waste in your kitchen? Here’s how. Good Housekeeping gives the following […]
Climate change will force some farmers to choose between lower crop yields and unstable production, according to a new Cornell and Washington State University study. This dilemma stems from risk exposure to water shortages and higher temperatures that will likely push crop yields down in areas that rely on irrigation water that includes seasonal snowpack. […]
Cattle-feed crops account for 23 percent of water consumption in the US and are rapidly becoming a major driver of water shortages across the country. Crops like alfalfa and hay which are fed to cattle end up as beef and dairy products. Those crops require a lot of irrigation and are often grown in arid […]
