Gaia Desert

Gayle Leonard on her blog  Thirsty in Suburbia  posted  this link  about upgrading your water wasting toilets. This will work for many americans who waste thousands of gallons of water each year with inefficient water wasting toilets. http://blog.gayleleonard.com/2009/07/under-the-hood-of-my-ugly-80s-toilet/ Keep in mind that if you make heavier deposits to your toilet bank, you may want to do some independent research on the subject!  Most Americans have bowel movements of less than 200grams and their 1980's toilets handle Gayle's modification without any problem. If you want to save the water and worry about flushing efficiency, there are several other options: The ideal toilet would be one where you could have a separate flush for urine and a flush for the big BM. Home Depot and others sell them. An even more aggressive approach are the urine separation toilets using disinfected urine for fertilizer. 

Remember your text message donations? It is getting spent, but slowly. Haiti Video Fred Sajous, a Haitian earthquake survivor armed with a video camera and a cause, is a man on a mission: to figure out how the American Red Cross spent the $430 million it raised for the disaster. Read more:  http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/04/27/1601420/spotlight-falls-on-red-cross-spending.html?story_link=email_msg#ixzz0mbJuMkrZ

This is something I wrote a few years ago.  A Haiti publication will come soon.

Here are some videos on bottled water. Although I drank SODIS water for one year in Cambodia using recycled PET, I always drink tap water in the United States. The Story of Bottled Water "Manufactured Demand" The industries response: www.bottledwatermatters.com I find much of this blog's information from the WaterWired blog. Here is another one on youtube . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3QBZac3MSY

For a limited time, March 22 - April 2, you can download a free, interactive version of National Geographic's special issue 'Water: Our Thirsty World' http://www.natgeofreshwater.com/?of=500204105&bd=1

Is there going to be a "War fought over Water"? Are we going to run out of food to feed the world? Water Wired posted a very helpful link for those of us who worry about these questions: "Global Water Crisis: Myth or Reality?" Asit Biswas, an expert in international water resource management, has changed his mind. He no longer believes a world water crisis is a crisis of physical supply. It is, instead, a crisis of management.

For anyone with any doubts about climate change. Here is what the world's scientific societies say about climate change: please click here . This was prepared by Dr. Peter Gleick . I credit WaterWired again.