A young person's idea to use ocean currents to sweep plastic waste into giant collectors is now coming to fruition. They've installed their first prototype and completed aerial mapping of major garbage patches.
Approaching water conservation as a vital business industry we need to protect our planet, this site uses a variety of informative links to suggest water conservation at home, for kids, as a global concept and a business opportunity.
Researches and develops offshore renewable energy sources including offshore wind, waves, tidal currents, ocean and river currents and ocean thermal gradients.
University of Victoria policy researchers investigate public policy options related to water sustainability. Publications suggest that an ecosystem-based paradigm is necessary for sustainability of water resources, requiring an integrated approach by all levels of government, business, industry and society.
"Weather is changing. Get ready for it." Weather is felt most tangibly through water: rain, snow, flooding, drought, ice. In Dry Spring by Chris Woods, we learn how climate change is already affecting North American orchardists, fishers and people who live on the coast. Wood offers some suggestions about how to mitigate the worst effects.
Contains the latest developments and news about OTEC. Turning temperature differences between cool and less cool parts of the ocean into energy is a challenging, developing technology; see how it works and Google "ocean thermal energy conversion" for a variety of images.
Besides the obvious advantage low-tech rainwater harvesting offers for domestic water, the "extra" can provide farmers with higher and faster growth, more harvests, or different crops, e.g. rice and vegetables rather than sorghum and maize. The Google site offers dozens of diagrams, basic information about rainharvesting and rainharvesting projects.
This weekly focuses on international news. With some sifting, you'll find in-depth articles on water and economics, politics, business, technology, pollution, climate change, resource extraction and more.
