From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Saints and Sinners, Drink Up

July 31, 2009

What water do they serve in hell? I’m guessing none. As the bottled water battle degrades into an old-fashioned good-versus-evil struggle, best to hedge your bets like Liquid Salvation brand [...]

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Hold It! Code 3!

July 30, 2009

Were Scotland Yard’s phone operators playing it too loose with trips to the loo? You can’t manage what you can’t measure, so the bosses have devised an unintentionally-hilarious new procedure [...]

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Dumpster Diving in the Merrimack River

July 29, 2009

Imagine that your city dump is located at the bottom of a river, unseen below the surface… and that same river is the main source for your community’s drinking water. [...]

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Indoor Pool, Water View, Needs Work

July 28, 2009

If water is life, then there’s hopefully still a little left in this sad, abandoned building. From englishrussia.com, a tour of a once-proud structure heaving downward into a pool of [...]

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Water and Drought Jokes: How Dry is It?

July 27, 2009

Drought Turning Texas Dry as Toast: Yesterday I saw this headline on MSNBC (via WaterSISWeb) so that’s my cue to dig up my collection of “It’s so dry…” jokes.

So dry the birds are [...]

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The Iconic New York City… Water Tower?

July 25, 2009

In that most sophisticated of cities, New York, New York, the wooden water tower still reigns supreme. www.amny.com has a fascinating story on the many wooden water towers that dot [...]

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The Benefits of Big: Giant Campaign from RWE

July 24, 2009

How can you change your negative image if you’re a often-hated, ginormous European energy company whose sheer size and power terrifies the regular folks? Why not channel that feel-good-about-monsters character, [...]

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Up is Down is Around: Water Ambigram

July 23, 2009

What’s an ambigram? It is a typographical design that may be read as the same word or phrase (or sometimes two different words or phrases) when rotated or reflected.
This Water ambigram [...]

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The Visual Water Dictionary: Mixed Liquor

July 22, 2009

We’re workin’ hard to educate the general public on nuances in the world of water language! The Visual Water Dictionary attempts to cut confusion on water words and terminology with easy [...]

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Snapped! School Bottled Beverage Brouhaha

July 21, 2009

A teacher who’s “smarting” and a Mum who’s “sorry”..a sad, crazy tale on how a bottle of “flavored, not fizzy” water (the “wrong type” that violated the school’s “healthy eating [...]

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