Featured Too wacky? Moving water from flood to drought (Seth Borenstein – Yahoo! News, 09/09/2011) The East has been inundated with rain, while Texas remains dangerously dry. This has brought up previous tempting visions of installing pipelines to carry water across the nation. This would help out both regions with their water problems. Unfortunately, moving vast quantities of water is…
Featured Reusing Air Conditioning Condensation To Save Water (Pat Hernandez – KUHF News, 09/01/2011) Rice University has found a new way to save water. The University’s Department of Facilities, Engineering and Planning is capturing the condensate that forms when warm air is cooled by an air conditioning system. On a nice humid day, one building on campus can collect about…
Featured Water Conservation is key to accommodating growth (John Jacob – Houston Chronicle, 08/24/2011) Houston has been forced to enact mandatory water conservation due to scarce resources, and the city is expected to grow by 4 million people in the next three to four decades. The state-mandated Region H water-planning group believes that there is more than enough water to…