Featured World Water Day: U.S. Can Achieve Sustainability in Water By Ending Corrosion in Piping Infrastructure (Trenchless Technology, 03/21/2012) International World Water Day is celebrated each year on March 22nd. It was established 19 years ago to highlight water scarcity around the world and is now used to advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. One issue that was…
Featured How to Cool Down Texas Power Plants With Less Water (Terrence Henry – StateImpact, 03/16/2012) Water conservation is continually becoming a more pressing issue. Ashlynn Stillwell, a civil and architectural engineering PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin with the Webber Energy Group, provided insight into water use by power plants and how it can affect Texas’…
Featured Tompkins: No cheap solutions for species invasions (Shannon Tompkins – Houston Chronicle, 03/04/2012) Chinese tallow trees, which are non-native, invasive trees, are the most common tree in the region. These tallow trees account for about 23 percent of all trees in the area according to the Houston Regional Forest report. This species is only one of many invasive species…