From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Goon Idea for Canadian Toilet Reuse!

January 14, 2010

(Note: that’s not a typo!) A tweet this week from World Toilet Day (@worldtoiletday) sought some group-think ideas on toilet reuse. Not toilet-to-tap recycled water, but actual toilets! And yes, [...]

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Eschew the Fat: How Gross is This?

January 13, 2010

How did I miss this Halloween treat? Scottish Water advises folks to “Be afraid, be very afraid” as they take us deep into the sewer to observe with our own [...]

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Absorbing a Freaky Frog Fact Via a Boulder Fountain

January 12, 2010

I spotted this terrific water fountain in downtown Boulder, Colorado on Pearl Street. It was donated by the Communication Arts department of University of Colorado. While it offers some great [...]

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Drought Mneumonic Monument

January 11, 2010

In the unlikey event that local citizens forget, a public sculpture was erected in Taebaek, Kangwon-Do, South Korea, as a reminder of the hardship and pain of drought and water shortages [...]

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Public Funding Well Spent…75 Years Ago.

January 9, 2010

From the stimulus program 75 years past…this WPA Poster (Water Supply #4) was created for the Federal Art Project series on the history of civic services in New York City…in 1936, when [...]

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Vittel: It Must Be the Water. And the Budget.

January 7, 2010
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Vittel is a brand of bottled mineral water from the northeastern French spa town of the same name. Sounds quaint, but the brand has since 1992 been owned by the not-so-quaint [...]

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No Blame in the Catchment Detox Game

January 5, 2010

If you imagine you could do a better job managing waterways than the powers that be, now you can put your theories to the test, with no one to blame [...]

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Sewer Pipe Suite Life

January 4, 2010

A concrete sewer pipe as hotel room? That’s repurposing for a practical purpose! DasPark Hotel is the sort of wild idea you’d expect to be just another conceptual prototype, but [...]

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