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Top 5 Green New Year Resolutions
Top 5 Green New Year Resolutions
- Conserve conserve conserve. It’s easier than it sounds to save water in your daily routine: switch off the tap when brushing your teeth, fill the dishwasher to the hilt before turning it on, start capturing water for your garden or flushing the toilet.
- Get involved There’s a lot to be said for getting out of your house and focussing your energy on others-or on the environment. Join a community conservation program, or community supported agriculture program, volunteer for an environmental charity and feel good about making a difference.
- Organize your recycling If at home, this is the perfect chance to get your glass, paper and aluminum in the proper containers or if at work why not wrestle with your company’s recycling policies.
- Learn to recycle something new Sure, you’re a pro at never leaving your newspaper on the bus or at the skytrain station—but what about all the other stuff you can recyle? Computers, DVD players, televisions, compact fluorescent light bulbs and cell phones all can and should be recycled, so the metals can be disposed of correctly or, even better, reused. If you’re already doing this, consider starting a compost bin for your organic food scraps, or buying clothes made from recyclable fibers.
- Stick to it The most popular advice for keeping resolutions is to keep them simple: look at small changes in water conservation you can make to reach your long term goals, like thinking twice about having a daily bath. And don’t make too many—choose one, maybe two, goals and focus on those.
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Asking Health Canada: Questions on bottled water
Health Canada has published an array of frequently asked questions on bottled water sold in Canada. LINK: Bottled water questions
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Video: Dr. Gleick reporting on Peak Water
In this video, Dr. Gleick talks about the concept of peak water and the issues surrounding the speed at which we are depleting our groundwater.
LINK: Peter Gleick
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The Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education
December 2009 last issue features articles on topics such as Industry perspective on Water use efficiency, Energy and water programs and education. For current and past issues, LINK: Journal of CWR&E
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Water effective landscaping alternatives on HGTV.com
Cost effective and water effective landscaping alternatives can also be beautiful.HGTV.com features photos and tips for on water, fountains, pools for any budget. LINK: Water landscaping
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Global Politician: Emerging water wars by Sam Vaknin
Global Politician is an independent journal of politics and world affairs. It has grown rapidly in recent months, and now gets over 100,000 unique visitors a month. A unique article worth reading, was published on the Emerging Water Wars LINK: Global issues
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About WaterTech
The WaterTech 2010 conference, which combines two highly successful annual events, WaterTech and WastewaterTech, will overlap due to the increasing and growing importance of wastewater topics in the Middle East. The conference will address key water resource and water demand management issues in the Middle East, including an in-depth look at wastewater treatment and reuse which is now a key priority for regional governments. This third annual gathering will bring together experts from water authorities, municipalities, regulators and industry to discuss solutions to critical water and wastewater problems. LINK: WaterTECH
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About Small Water Users Association
The Small Water Users Association of BC is a non-profit society dedicated to serving the interests of small water systems throughout British Columbia. The mission of the Small Water Users Association of BC is twofold:
- To foster cooperation and information sharing amongst small water systems throughout BC in order to improve system operations and reduce costs.
- To represent the concerns and interests of small water systems before all levels of government.
LINK: Small Water Users
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Going Green on New Years
A really great article on how to go green on New Year’s day, by Planet Green. Have you thought about how you are going to go green in the New Year? LINK: Planet Green
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Dr. Kathleen Miller on climate change and water research
Discussing how in recent years there has been growing evidence that the earth’s increasingly warm climate in 21st century. This raises the essential question: What impacts will global warming have on the environment and human activities? LINK: Dr. Kathleen Miller
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