L&L Energy Obtains Membrane Technology to Strengthen Its Clean Energy Efforts. A New Map Of The U.S., Created From Where We Get Our Water. This map shows what America would look like if it followed its watersheds. It's an America designed to use water more efficiently, and reduce state conflicts over water. Think state conflicts over water aren't a big deal? Then you don't know that Georgia, Florida, and Alabama are engaged in a massive battle over their water sources. There's a similar situation in the dry Southwest. Will the states go to war? Made by John Lavey, a land use planner at the Sonoran Institute, the map is inspired by an idea from 19th-century adventurer and geologist John Wesley Powell. Unfortunately, back then, the railway lobby wouldn't have it: The rail lobby, buoyed by Charles Dan Wilbur and his theory that “rain follows the plough,” successfully swayed congressional opinion to accept state’s boundaries in their contemporary form.
Lavey's map imagines Powell's idea across the whole of America. Without railways, intensive agriculture and mass urbanization, the West wouldn't be the West it is today. L&L Energy Obtains Membrane Technology to Strengthen Its Clean Energy Efforts. SEATTLE, Oct. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- L & L Energy, Inc. ("L&L" or the "Company"), a U.S. -based company with profitable energy (coal) operations in China, today announced that it has secured rights to advanced membrane osmosis technologies from the R&D Center for Membrane Technology (the "CMT") at Chung Yuan Christian University ("CYCU") to support its clean energy initiatives in China. The CMT is a world leader in advanced membrane technologies, which are used for filtering CO2, nitrogen, and metals from solvents.
The technology has wide environmental applications, such as sustainable water treatment and precious metal recovery. For instance, the Center has worked with Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs, and European water utility company Veolia Water, to separate industrial solvents used for semiconductor manufacturing. L&L Chairman Dickson V. For more information please contact: L&L Energy, Inc.Investor Relations+1 (206) 264-8065ir@llenergyinc.com. Tap_water_map. Water.org.
SWEET Finnish water research. Print Send link The Center of Water Efficiency Excellence (SWEET) established by Kemira Oyj and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland will develop new technologies which enable more efficient water usage and recycling, as well as the creation of more environmentally sustainable and energy-efficient solutions for water-intensive industry. The research field includes for example energy- and cost-efficient production of freshwater from sea water, biofuel production of biomass generated in wastewater treatment as well as product biodegradability. One example of VTT's previous work in this field is the development of eco-efficient solutions for landfill wastewater treatment. The Center of Water Efficiency Excellence (SWEET) recently established by Kemira Oyj and VTT brings together Finnish water expertise.
VTT has contributed to areas such as developing new solutions for landfill wastewater treatment. The new methods are eco-efficient. Clean water more precious than gold. The scarcity of water is growing into an ever bigger problem. — New, sustainable solutions for securing water supplies and for more effective water usage these days are more precious than gold, explains Senior Researcher Mona Arnold. Water consumption has risen threefold over the last 50 years. — Consumption has increased twice as fast as population growth. Most water is used for agriculture and food production, but industry is also a major consumer, Arnold continues. — Individual homes account for just eight percent of total consumption, although figures vary from country to country.
The USA heads the list, using nearly 600 litres per day, while average consumption by an individual home in Mozambique is just four litres per day. Too much or too little The most common source of drinking water is ground water, excessive consumption of which is a phenomenon in both industrialized and developing countries. World-class expertise www.vtt.fi.
Duoyuan Clean Water Technology Industries (China) Co., Ltd. About WIPO GREEN. Environment and Natural Resources Division : Federal Reserved Water Rights and State Law Claims. Reserved Water Rights and the Supreme Court The doctrine of federal reserved water rights generally traces its origins to the seminal decision of Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564 (1908). There, the United States Supreme Court ruled, when the United States sets aside an Indian reservation, it impliedly reserves sufficient water to fulfill the purposes of the reservation, with the priority date established as of the date of the reservation. Over half a century later, following the passage of the McCarran Amendment, the Supreme Court had occasion to revisit – and build upon – this turn of the century decision in Arizona v. Over the coming years, the Supreme Court had several occasions to explore the contours of the reserved water rights doctrine.
Several years later, in United States v. Reserved Water Rights in Colorado In the wake of this decision, NRS attorneys in the Denver field office handled many significant cases in the Colorado district water courts. Scientist investigates water management of Everglades : University of Hawaiʻi System News. Sunset over the Everglades mangrove ecosystem (photo credit: David Ho, University of Hawaiʻi’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology The National Science Foundation awarded $5 million to David Ho , oceanography professor in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology , and his collaborators, as a part of NSF’s Water, Sustainability and Climate Program.
The five-year project will explore the hydrologic, ecologic and economic impacts of management strategies designed to increase the resilience of the Florida Everglades ecosystem to climate variability, climate change and sea level rise. “My role in this project is to study the effect of changing freshwater supply, due to management decisions and climate change, on carbon cycling in the mangrove ecosystem of the Everglades,” said Ho. The carbon cycle is inextricably linked to climate change. . — Adapted from a UH Mānoa news release Category : Research. Water - June 3. Click on the headline (link) for the full text.Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to DustMichael Wines, New York Times Forty-nine years ago, Ashley Yost’s grandfather sank a well deep into a half-mile square of rich Kansas farmland.
He struck an artery of water so prodigious that he could pump 1,600 gallons to the surface every minute. Last year, Mr. Yost was coaxing just 300 gallons from the earth, and pumping up sand in order to do it. By harvest time, the grit had robbed him of $20,000 worth of pumps and any hope of returning to the bumper harvests of years past... Vast stretches of Texas farmland lying over the aquifer no longer support irrigation. How to Save Water-Starved CitiesEric Jaffe, The Atlantic Considering how blue this planet looks from outer space, it seems strange to worry that water supplies would run dry. O what can thirsty cities do to secure a watery future? There is a broad and growing consensus that freshwater is undervalued.
That will begin to change. Board of Water Supply, City & County of Honolulu | Ka wai ola - Water for Life. "Save Water, Save Energy" 2013 Poster and Poetry Contest Winners Announced Click here to view the winning posters and poems. Monthly Billing for Water and Wastewater Service In January 2013, customers will begin to receive their combined water and wastewater bill on a monthly basis.
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