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How This Guy Cleaned a Lake !
Clean a lake: an organic solution Short and spectacular video on a sanitation technology for water places by Nas Daily (a palestinian influencer) Other sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marino_Morikawa Less spectacular, more “serious” www.dawsonenglishjournal.ca/article/environmentalist-marino-morikawa-a-dreamer-in-action-by-rosa-alicia-castillo/
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Water as source of therapy for anxiety and stress – WSJ
“…Water helps your mind wander in a positive way…” “…Water helps your mind wander in a positive way…” says Marc Berman, director of the Environmental Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Chicago. “This is what is so restorative.” …./… Here’s some advice on how to harness the healing power of water. Remember that all water…
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Water-energy-land nexus is essential for wastewater treatment
…/… Array of solutions from other regions The first solution is to improve sanitation and decrease pollution by increasing the proportion of wastewater adequately treated, monitoring and improving discharge effluent standards. This has been proved to be a useful solution in China, which has had rapid improvement in wastewater treatment coverage. China has successfully achieved…
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Deceleration of China’s human water use and its key drivers
Source and more : pnas.org 2020 March Significance China’s rising food demand and fast economic growth increase water use and threaten water security. We present a spatially detailed survey-based reconstruction dataset of sectoral water use from 1965 to 2013 at the scale of small administrative units called prefectures. The data show that a widespread deceleration…
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Gender and IWRM
Advancing towards gender mainstreaming in water resources management In 2020-21, the SDG 6 IWRM Support Programme carried out a study in order to understand the bottlenecks to acceleration on this topic, as well as showcasing and disseminating a range of practices that have been implemented around the world, highlighting common gaps, challenges and constraints, and key enabling factors, and providing recommendations on…
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Women remain underrepresented in water resources management
Advancing towards gender mainstreaming in water resources management A new report by the Global Water Partnership (GWP) and UNEP-DHI (United Nations Environment Programme Centre of Water and Environment), shows progress has been slow in countries meeting gender objectives in their water management policies and plans. In many developing countries, women are the de facto water decision makers in households. Research…
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Women’s empowerment in water and sanitation
A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis by Bethany A Caruso Author content Source and full PDF: researchgate.net Abstract and Figures Historically, water and sanitation programs have focused on women’s instrumental value in improving conditions and behaviors. No reviews have synthesized evidence on water and sanitation and women’s and girls’ empowerment. This review – a) identified empirical…
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Women's empowerment in water and sanitation
A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis by Bethany A Caruso Author content Source and full PDF: researchgate.net Abstract and Figures Historically, water and sanitation programs have focused on women’s instrumental value in improving conditions and behaviors. No reviews have synthesized evidence on water and sanitation and women’s and girls’ empowerment. This review – a) identified empirical…
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Water Woman Leadership Discussion: Gender Parity for Water Resilience
Is women water management different ? Water managers discuss the need for increasing gender parity in the workforce and share current and needed policies, practices and programs that can help scale solutions to bridging the gender gap. Featured panelists include Hayati Yarkadas, President, Water Infrastructure, Xylem, Sharon Peters, President/CEO, EMA, Inc., and Alicia Douglas, Founder/CEO,…
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Concerning Change to Earth’s Water Cycle, Satellite Data Reveal
Climate scientists expect a greater evaporation on the ocean surface Climate change is throwing Earth’s water cycle severely out of whack. According to new satellite data, freshwaters are growing fresher and salt waters are growing saltier at an increasingly rapid rate all around the world. If this pattern continues, it will turbocharge rainstorms. The findings indicate…
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Concerning Change to Earth's Water Cycle, Satellite Data Reveal
Climate scientists expect a greater evaporation on the ocean surface Climate change is throwing Earth’s water cycle severely out of whack. According to new satellite data, freshwaters are growing fresher and salt waters are growing saltier at an increasingly rapid rate all around the world. If this pattern continues, it will turbocharge rainstorms. The findings indicate…
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Taking the “F” out of forever chemicals
The right solvent mix breaks down perfluorinated organic acids Source and more : Science.org SHIRA JOUDAN AND RYLAN J. LUNDGREN Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—sometimes called “forever chemicals” because of their chemical stability—are synthetic molecules widely used in consumer products (1). Ironically, the characteristics that make these compounds useful, such as lipoand hydrophobicity, high thermal stability, and resistance to…
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Increasing stratification as observed by satellite sea surface salinity measurements – Nature.com
Source and more : Nature.com Science Reports Abstract Changes in the Earth’s water cycle can be estimated by analyzing sea surface salinity. This variable reflects the balance between precipitation and evaporation over the ocean, since the upper layers of the ocean are the most sensitive to atmosphere–ocean interactions. In situ measurements lack spatial and temporal…
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Which water supply will take over Foggaras Heritage ?
Algerian Sahara has one of the oldest sources of irrigation and water supply, named El-Foggara The disappearance of Foggaras not only translates to the disappearance of an important part of the environmental ecosystem of the region, it also undermines social and economic ecosystems that have been the norm for many generations. The Algerian Sahara has…
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6 Charts Show How the World is Improving
Good News Happens Slowly https://www.visualcapitalist.com/6-charts-show-world-improving/ t only takes a few minutes of cable news to get the feeling that the world is heading into a tailspin. Endless images of homicide investigations, natural disasters, car crashes, and drug busts fill the airwaves on a daily basis. It’s upsetting – but also certainly captivating for the average…