To cool the four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, each day, the Japanese need five times New York City’s water supply. New York consumes 1 billion gallons of water per day; Fukushima needs 5 billion gallons of water per day to cool its reactors. No wonder the authorities are having trouble getting […]
Outrage as Botswana Bushmen denied access to water
There was outrage today as Botswana’s High Court denied the Kalahari Bushmen access to water. The Judge ruled that the Bushmen were not entitled to access an existing water borehole on their lands or to drill a new one inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, one of the driest regions in the world. The hearing of the […]
“Greening” Fisheries Could Calm Troubled Waters
Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. Fishing is a critical means of providing food, livelihood, trade, and economic growth in many developing countries-as well as the United States. In many small island developing nations and coastal countries – such as Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, and Ghana – fish provide at least 50 percent of […]
Deepwater Horizon Rig Disaster Threatens Drilling
BP Plc last September tapped into a new oilfield called Tiber, estimated to hold at least 3 billion barrels of crude, or six months’ worth of U.S. consumption. Discovered through seismic imaging and data crunched on a supercomputer, the field is almost six miles (9.6 kilometers) beneath the Gulf of Mexico’s floor, in a spot […]
For Ten Cents Per Gallon, How Far Would You Drive?
Cheap Gasoline? How far would you drive to save ten cents per gallon on gasoline? An eight cents per gallon savings is definitely hard to find and ten even harder. If your tank is twenty gallons and half empty, you would save eighty cents to a dollar at fill ups. Some fuels, even at the […]
School bus driver saves the day
Bangalore : Around 35 students of Sri Vani Education Centre had a miraculous escape, thanks to the presence of mind of their bus driver,Ramanna, when their bus was rammed from behind by a runaway private bus on Magadi Road on Friday morning.The bus was just a fewmetres away from huge storm water drain that passesunder […]
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