The water scarcity in California has been all over the news for quite a while now. Reports of suffering avocado crops, Starbucks moving their water bottling facility out of the state, and residents changing their front lawns from grass to rocks to conserve water have are major headlines. But while...
Do you know what the standard procedure is for removing a dam? Most of the time it involves using explosives in the dam and letting the flow of the river wash all of the sediment downstream. The problem with this approach is that the sediment trapped behind the dam can suffocate downstream...
Water is essential to life, and the number of risks that affect the availability of our most precious resource is increasingly coming to the general public’s attention. As this interesting infographic breaks it down, water quality and quantity should be a top issue, and there are...