Check out the new video for the Sherwood Institute’s Bangalore Lakes Restoration Project! The full video can be viewed here. The project page also has more information about the project’s background and ways that you can get involved to help.

In the conference proceedings of the 12th International Environmental Protection Exhibition and Conference which occurred earlier this month, there was included a very nice analysis of China’s 12th Five Year Plan (2011-2015) as it relates to the environmental protection industry, written by the  China Association of Environmental Protection Industry (CAEPI).  It includes some history on [...]

The world’s water is approximately 97.5% salt water and 2.5% freshwater. Of the 2.5% that is fresh, about 70% is trapped in ice caps and glaciers. This means that less than 1% of the world’s water can meet human freshwater needs, and the majority of this water is buried underground in aquifers. Countries are using [...]

According to the US EPA, an average American family of four uses about 400 gallons of water per day to meet indoor and outdoor needs. More than half of the water used indoors is suitable for reuse in non-potable applications like irrigation or toilet flushing. This reusable water, also known as “graywater,” is effluent that [...]