Oct 23
Streams with forested banks are healthier than streams without ’em. Wade in to cleaner water: Tree-lined streams aren’t just pretty—healthy trees also make for healthier streams. How’s that, you ask? A review of more than 200 studies about streams led Bern Sweeney, PhD, director and senior research scientist of Pennsylvania’s Stroud Water Research Center, to …
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Jun 02
Wanna shrink that water footprint? Take a look at the food you’re eating. Listen up: Here’s some food for thought: More than 90 percent of our water footprint relates to water usage in agriculture—which means the food we eat is our biggest use of water. Fresh water comprises just 2.5 percent of the world’s supply, …
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Dec 27
Saving water and flavor is what’s on tap at a few earth-minded breweries. Hop on this: Ever been told that if you want to save water, you should drink ale instead? Unfortunately, there’s not much truth to the joke—a lot of water goes into making beer. “It can vary from about three liters to six …
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May 07
—Eric Freedman, Great Lakes Echo* A bacterial disease in both captively raised and wild fish is imperiling popular salmon species in the Great Lakes Basin, a new study shows. The findings are based on testing lake, brook, brown and rainbow trout and Coho, Atlantic, chinook and steelhead salmon from the Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and …
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Jan 12
The water that comes out of our taps is a drop in the bucket compared to the water that it takes to make the products and food we buy. Transcript of the Audio Podcast: Tracing your water footprint… …on this CurrentCast. It’s often said that the average American uses eighty to one hundred gallons of …
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