From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Look Closely: Water Transport is Booming

March 7, 2009

Boston.com’s “The Big Picture” has gained a devoted following for its dramatic, superb photography presented thematically, somewhat like a digital version of the much-missed Life magazine. The Big Picture feature on [...]

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h2o mp3: Cool Water: Fleetwood Mac

March 6, 2009

Classic old cowboy tune about hallucinating in the desert. (FYI–the “Dan” in this song is our lone hero’s mule!) Cool Water was written in 1936 by Bob Nolan and has been [...]

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It’s Spring, and Water Marketers Send Their Love

March 5, 2009

We might love our tap water, but that’s not to stop or slow the relentless bottled water branders from absconding with the power of love to move the water and the [...]

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One Latte with Change, Please.

March 4, 2009

Suddenly, they’re everywhere. Jaw-dropping “water footprint” numbers are marching through mainstream media channels, but I have some nagging problems with most examples I’ve seen. One, they usually gloss over how the numbers are [...]

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Create, Destroy, Repeat: A Natural Process

March 3, 2009

How would it feel to spend months creating this, only to see it destroyed by the natural shifts of the seasons? To the artist John Ceprano, it would feel perfectly right [...]

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Attention Conspiracy Theorists: NASA Water Recycling

March 2, 2009

Ordinarily, I’d post this photo of Vietnamese bottled water “purified by NASA’s award-winning technology” strictly for our amusement. (from the Picasa Web Album Hoi An, Vietnam by Mark) But it [...]

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