Our entire society is built on wasting everything, including the most basic necessities : energy, water and food. The very first step towards actual sustainability is to drastically slash the amount of waste in these three.
Earlier this month, nations finally agreed on the High Seas Treaty and it’s hailed as an historical event.
Five sustainable solutions exists for cities running out of water: conserving the resource, fixing leaking pipes, reclaiming water, desalination and biogas generation.
Last year I was blogging about the Nebia showerhead which was proposing to save 70 percent water thanks to liquid atomization. Now with the same technology comes the Altered:Nozzle which saves a massive 98 percent of water that comes out of the faucet while not cutting on fonctionality.
For our Economics classes at Pinchot last year, I – with a few friends and classmates – worked on water in California. My part was focusing on the inefficiency and the leaks occuring in the State. The findings are quite unsettling.
