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The human body is 70% water. The surface of the earth is 70% water. It is THE most important substance for making life possible. Learn about insightful ideas for using water, keeping it clean and getting it where people need it. Have an idea in Water? Tell us
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Webisodes Related to Water
Bottled Water Without The Waste? Only If It’s Convenient
We all use water bottles, but if you’re not filling up a reusable every time you’re creating a lot of waste. Disposable bottles are convenient, and convenience determines what gets used – the folks at True2o think they might be able to bridge the gap between convenience and conservation.
An Innovative Approach to Water Conservation
THIS WEEK: Our rapidly increasing consumption of water is creating concerns about what the world would be like without any! One team, however, created an innovative solution to the planet’s quickly disappearing water. Check it out in this week’s webisode!
A Solar Conversation with Secretary Chu
THIS WEEK: In this week’s webisode, Planet Forward’s Frank Sesno interviews Secretary of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu at the 2011 Solar Decathlon! Chu talks about the coolest innovations, and even wonks out a bit on r-values and building materials.
‘The Big Uneasy,’ The PF Interview with Harry Shearer
Update (11/1/2012): In response to questions surrounding Hurricane Sandy, we are featuring “‘The Big Uneasy,’ The PF Interview with Harry Shearer.” We hope this idea will provide insight into dramatic weather events and the measures that communities must take to adapt to their risks, such as water contamination, flooding, and sea-level rise. In this week’s …Read More…
Bangkok Underground
In this week’s WEBISODE we travel to Bangkok to see what they are doing to cope with floods. PF Producer Victoria Riess talks with Porntep Techapaibul, the Deputy Governor of Bangkok.
Rising Seas Bring Salty Risks
A rising tide may lift all boats, but what does it do to marshlands? In this week’s WEBISODE we showcase NSF funded scientist’s work on how marshes are affected by sea level rise. We also take you on a trip halfway around!
Is Your City HOT? The Benefits of Storm Water Management
This week, our WEBISODE focuses on “GreenStreets,” a project from Drexel University Professor and NSF funded scientist, Franco Montalto. Got storm water? He’s working on a solution!
Water Water Everywhere
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner may hit a little too close to home for the citizens of Mauritius. In this week’s webisode, take a trip to the small island with the help of Planet Forward member Matt Gray and learn about one way the smart community is trying to fix their water management problem.
Going Under
Produced by students from Middlebury College, this creative piece shows us what could happen if we don’t find an energy solution.
TV Segments Related to Water
Washing Without Water
Clean clothes without all the water wasted? One company in England thinks they’ve got a way to get those clothes sparkling with polymer beads.
A Different Kind Of Pipeline
This week on Bloomberg West, we look at how pipelines can be used differently to sustainably deliver water through difficult terrain, remote villages, or through natural disaster areas.
Cleaning Up Dirty Fracking Water
This week on Bloomberg West, we feature AquaMost, a chemical-free wastewater treatment system that is used in natural gas fracking.
Cleaning Up Ecological “Dead Zones”
This week on Bloomberg West we featured an innovative water treatment project developed at Stanford University. The researchers are not only cleaning up our oceans, but they say they can produce energy from it, too!
A Toilet for the Developing World
This week on Bloomberg West we featured an innovative new toilet. Yes, you read that correctly. This toilet, designed at Cal Tech, is intended for use in the developing world and hopes to make the water there cleaner and healthier.
New & Innovative Way to Clean Up Oil Spills
This week we feature a new water-separation technology created at the University of Michigan. They say they’ve developed an energy-efficient way to clean up after oil spills.
Robotic Fish Search Water for Pollutants
Our latest on Bloomberg West focuses on innovations from Michigan State University to better monitor the world’s waterways.
Filtering Dirty Water, By Losing the Filter
This week, tackling one of the great challenges of our time – water. The engineers at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) say they have the answer that could make it cheaper and less energy-intensive to clean water. It has no moving parts and no filter. Instead, it uses a vortex to separate the contaminants from …Read More…
Cleaning Up the World’s Dirty Water
Our latest segment from Bloomberg West features a company that can clean up our water. Think you have a better idea to save the world’s most precious resource? Tell us!
Articles From the Blog Related to Water
Have an idea to help our oceans? Bring it to the exchange
Have an innovation that’s helping solve the world’s most pressing issues? Ocean Exchange is holding their Fall Exchange in Savannah, Georgia this year and is looking for solutions. This year’s theme is “Leap to Zero+,” a call for innovations that generate economic growth and increase productivity while reducing resource use and waste. Innovations can be …Read More…
Jeffrey Sachs’s 12 Grand Challenges for Sustainable Development
Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, presents his Twelve Grand Challenges for Sustainable Development at GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs.
Floating Into the Future
Floating Into the Future You know houseboats, you know cars that are build to swim or tanks. But can you image to live on water in a real house? That is reality for example in Nigeria, where the people of Makoko build their houses on stilts above the lagoon. What is tradition there, might be a …Read More…
Where’s the Water?
If you haven’t noticed, the United States has been having some strange weather lately. Parts of the country are under a drought, which hits farmers especially hard, while other regions are experiencing massive amounts of rainfall and flooding. At the same time, in many parts of the world, weather patterns like this are normal. This …Read More…
Happy Sustainable Summer!
It’s summertime! This week we feature Planet Forward innovators who can help make your summer even more fun and sustainable! Whether you’re spending your summer at the beach or at home, there are lots of great ways for you to reduce your impact on the environment. Remember to tune into our upcoming segment on Bloomberg …Read More…
Sustainable Hydropower: A New Flow of Ideas
By Daniel Kammen What can be done to diversify our clean energy technology options? In recent years we have seen a number of seemingly “old” technologies undergo a reassessment, and a reinvention. Geothermal power, once assessed as “an excellent source of baseload energy, but likely limited in commercially exploitable capacity” has undergone a renaissance. Here’s …Read More…
EPA Water Tests in Dimock Show Incomplete Picture
The quality of well water in Dimock, Pa. is the center of national attention for activists, journalists, regulators, lawyers, policy makers, and industry officials – all looking for the latest evidence from government studies that will support their cases for or against fracking.
A Few Smart Ideas to Clean Up and Re-energize Cities
More people live in cities now than in any other time in human history–nearly half the world’s population. They are the economic engines of our society, but they are also the source of 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions. We all have a choice in where we live, and a lot of us are moving …Read More…
Making the Most of Water
Water is often called the “canary in the coal mine” of climate change–how we use, save and clean our water will be a big indicator of how well we adapt to the changing climate. Do you have an idea for keeping the water flowing? Tell us. Osorb Oil Spill Cleanup Osorb is a product that …Read More…
Using Sustainable Water to Plan for the Next Billion
By Frank Sesno
Last week, Danica May Camacho of the Philippines became the world’s symbolic seven billionth person. The occasion drew mixed feelings in the policy world — what does a booming global population mean for climate risks? To cite one issue, leaders are worried about the declining supply of water in regions vital to economic growth.
Bangkok Underground: How to Prepare for a Flood
Once called the “Venice of the East” because of its extensive canal system, Bangkok is a city that has been dealing with flooding for hundreds of years. It’s built on water. In fact, the primary housing option in the city in the 18th century was floating rafts. As the city has modernized, and its people …Read More…
Is NYC really losing 30% of its water?
Former three-term Albuquerque mayor Marty Chavez has some sage advice for other mayors: “Providing water may not get you elected, but not providing water will get you fired.” It seems New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg could use his advice. In a recent interview with Planet Forward, Chavez told us that New York City is losing …Read More…
Climate Crisis Fueling Mississippi River’s Historic Floods
Flooding in downtown Memphis, May 2011 (via Flickr’s Chris Wieland) This post was originally published on NWF’s Blog Wildlife Promise The Mississippi River is experiencing its second “500-year flood” since 1993. That’s no freak occurrence – it’s a result of man-made carbon pollution changing our climate. “All extreme weather events are now subject to …Read More…
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