A friend sent this link through SU.
(Thanks TrentNotTracy!)
It's there Water Theme Show "O".
http://www.cirquedusoleil.com
Would love to see this one show.
Which got me wandering around the net and wondering...
About Life In A Fishbowl...
Well at least in a WaterBowl...
Actually looks quite fun!
Showing posts with label water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water. Show all posts
Tuesday
Monday
When there's nothing left to eat. Would you? could you?
World's farmers turn to raw sewage for irrigation
From Site:
"The future may not smell too rosy – it may lie in sewage. As cities and industries suck up ever more of the world’s scarce water resources, agriculture is destined to rely increasingly on recycling the contents of urban sewers, according to a new international study of “wastewater agriculture”."
"Half of urban fields are irrigated with sewage, suggesting that a tenth of the world’s food is already grown this way . IWMI’s director Colin Chartres warned this week: “This figure is bound to increase as growing cities coincide with escalating food shortages to create a squeeze on agricultural water supply.”Theoretically, irrigating food crops with untreated wastewater is banned in many countries, one reason why there is virtually no research on the practice. But “while it may be theoretically forbidden, it is unofficially tolerated”
[via: http://www.newscientist.com]
From Site:
"The future may not smell too rosy – it may lie in sewage. As cities and industries suck up ever more of the world’s scarce water resources, agriculture is destined to rely increasingly on recycling the contents of urban sewers, according to a new international study of “wastewater agriculture”."
"Half of urban fields are irrigated with sewage, suggesting that a tenth of the world’s food is already grown this way . IWMI’s director Colin Chartres warned this week: “This figure is bound to increase as growing cities coincide with escalating food shortages to create a squeeze on agricultural water supply.”Theoretically, irrigating food crops with untreated wastewater is banned in many countries, one reason why there is virtually no research on the practice. But “while it may be theoretically forbidden, it is unofficially tolerated”
[via: http://www.newscientist.com]
What I've always wanted to know....
How to keep a skyscraper standing using 100,000 gallons of water
From Site:
The liquid tuned mass damper sits atop of the 60-floor, 641-foot-tall south tower of One Rincon Hill in San Fransisco. The momentum built up by the skyscraper's swaying to and fro will naturally move the water in the opposite direction, balancing out the forces at work. Without the damper, the building would more easily succumb to natural forces — and in a city that was nearly demolished by a quake in 1906, those forces can be incredibly strong.
Unfortunately, the area doesn't double as a wave pool for residents of the 60-floor One Rincon Hill.
[via: http://dvice.com]
Sunday
Oh sooo... HOT!
Found: The hottest water on Earth
From Site:
Even Jules Verne did not foresee this one. Deep down at the very bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, geochemist Andrea Koschinsky has found something truly extraordinary: "It's water," she says, "but not as we know it."
From Site:
Even Jules Verne did not foresee this one. Deep down at the very bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, geochemist Andrea Koschinsky has found something truly extraordinary: "It's water," she says, "but not as we know it."
At over 3 kilometres beneath the surface, sitting atop what could be a huge bubble of magma, it's the hottest water ever found on Earth. The fluid is in a "supercritical" state that has never before been seen in nature.
The fluid spews out of two black smokers called Two Boats and Sisters Peak.[via: http://environment.newscientist.com]They're Putting Anti-Aging Enzymes in the Water
They're Putting Anti-Aging Enzymes in the Water
From Site:
Within about 10 years, you might be drinking anti-aging enzymes with your bottled water. California biochemists have a plan to keep the world younger and healthier by using nanotech to deliver an enzyme called CoQ10 to our drinking water. This coenzyme is naturally produced by the body, but in smaller and smaller amounts as we age. And yet it's vital for the body's basic functioning, as it helps our cells convert sugars to energy. Perhaps if we boost its presence in our bodies as we age, our organs will remain productive and healthy for much longer.
[via: http://io9.com]
From Site:
Within about 10 years, you might be drinking anti-aging enzymes with your bottled water. California biochemists have a plan to keep the world younger and healthier by using nanotech to deliver an enzyme called CoQ10 to our drinking water. This coenzyme is naturally produced by the body, but in smaller and smaller amounts as we age. And yet it's vital for the body's basic functioning, as it helps our cells convert sugars to energy. Perhaps if we boost its presence in our bodies as we age, our organs will remain productive and healthy for much longer.
[via: http://io9.com]
Friday
Who Does Rainwater Belong To?
Who Does Rainwater Belong To?
[via: http://planetsave.com]
From Site:
This information is coming to us from the Bellingham Herald, who recently ran a story entitled “Does saving rainwater violate state law?” by Jennifer Langston. “We’re not going to start issuing permits for a pickle barrel in the backyard. But what if it’s four pickle barrels or a system that has 20,000 gallons of storage?” said Brian Walsh, a manager in the Department of Ecology’s water resources program.
Mr. Walsh, manager of the Department of Ecology, who the hell cares if it’s 2 million! It is rainwater you simpleton. It is wet water, falling from the clouds in the sky, on to roof’s and paddocks which may very well be decked out with enough pickle barrels to quench the thirst of a small army, like Canada’s. But unless someone is filling their aforementioned barrel from a river or other form of wet estuary, what right minded individual is going to attempt to enforce this law?
According to Langston, Seattle has obtained a citywide water-right permit, which allows for rain to be collected from most rooftops in the city. The “most” there refers to the few neighborhoods, mostly areas north of 85th street that see their stormwater empty into creeks and streams and lakes.
Just how is this stormwater making its way from Joe Bloggs’ roof and backyard out in to the streets and gutters so that it can then run into whatever lake lies at the end of it. How much rain is already soaked up by the grass that covers many a backyard? Is that grass acting illegally hogging all that water for itself?[via: http://planetsave.com]
Wednesday
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