Don’t drink like the Romans did, you may end up mad as a hatter! A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that the prevalence of lead in its citizens contributed to the fall of the Roman empire. According to the CDC, the short-term effects of lead...
Aquifers are an important part of a resilient water system. These underground reservoirs bring water to deserts and food to a hungry and growing world. But are we using aquifers in a responsible and sustainable manner?
Water Renewal Services is the city of Boise, Idaho’s utility within the Public Works Department responsible for renewing more than 10 billion gallons of used water (commonly known as wastewater) per year. This water comes anywhere from the shower to the...
With weather conditions changing around the world, Iraq and Syria are seeing unprecedented drought. Crops are not growing and people and animals cannot access potable water. A report composed by 13 aid groups operating in the middle east warned that the situation is...
Heather Tanana, a resident of the Navajo Nation and an assistant professor at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, recently authored a report which found that tribes are facing water shortages, lack of indoor plumbing, and water contamination...
Why does the United States of America, the world’s largest economy for over 150 years, not use the Metric System? In short….Pirates. Doesn’t every good story involve pirates? The foot has been used as a unit of measure since antiquity, just not quite as we...
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