Showing posts with label Water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Water. Show all posts

Thursday, February 2, 2017


By NewsBusters, Feb. 01, 2017

CNN – starting with its media correspondent and Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter – has boldly declared that the media cannot tolerate politicians like President Trump making wild overstatements without challenging him on the facts. So why didn’t CNN challenge House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi last night on her smear of Neil Gorsuch in an hour-long town hall program?

Host Jake Tapper asked for her take on the brand-new Neil Gorsuch nomination to the Supreme Court, and she made a wild overstatement: “If you breathe air, drink water, eat food, take medicine, or in any other way interact with the courts, this is a very bad decision.” What? Excuse me? Wouldn’t it seem natural to ask Pelosi how precisely it is that Gorsuch opposes air, water, food, and medicine? She uncorked this line twice.

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Saturday, June 13, 2015

ICYMI: How Israeli Desalination Technology Is Helping Solve California’s Devastating Drought 

Carlsbad, CA
By Betty Ilovici, Apr. 27, 2015, NoCamels 

Four years of devastating droughts in California have pushed cities and counties in the Golden State to seriously consider turning to the one drinking source that is not depleting anytime soon – seawater. With the Pacific Ocean abutting their shores, water desalination may be the much-needed solution for Californians. But desalination has its disadvantages, the chief ones being the high costs and the potential environmental damage.

To address these challenges, California is turning to the world leader in cutting edge desalination technology – Israel. A $1 billion desalination project is already underway in San Diego County – which will be the largest seawater desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere – and Israeli engineers have been called in for their expertise.

Currently under construction in Carlsbad, 35 miles north of San Diego, the plant could potentially provide Californians with 54 million gallons of water a day. The plant is using technology Israelis have been using for years, reverse-osmosis, which involves forcing seawater through a film with tiny holes that allow only water molecules to pass through, while the larger salt molecules cannot.



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Friday, June 5, 2015

California's Drought Spurring Water Recycling At Home

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Jun. 5, 2015, ABC News

Showering during California's drought is a guilt-free experience for homeowners Catarina Negrin and Noah Friedman.

The Berkeley couple — she runs a preschool, he's an architect — are early adopters of a home plumbing do-over that's becoming more popular during California's record four-year dry stretch.

California, like many states, long required all water used in homes to be piped out with the sewage, fearing health risks if water recycling is done clumsily.

Since 2010, however, the increasingly dry state has come around, and now even encourages the reuse of so-called gray water, which typically includes the gently-used runoff from bathroom sinks, showers, bathtubs and washing machines.

As mandatory conservation kicked in statewide this month, forcing many of California's 38 million people to face giving up on greenery, these recycling systems have become attractive options in new homes, right along with granite countertops. California Building Industry Association executive Robert Raymer rattles off the drought-conscious top builders that now routinely offer in-home water recycling.

And California's building codes are catching up as well, allowing owners of existing homes to create the simplest systems for the safest gray water without a permit.


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