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  • Reaping the Rewards of the SunShot Initiative

    July 01, 2016 |

    Clean Energy Finance Forum |

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    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    Air and water pollutants have an adverse impact on the health and well-being of citizens. Protecting the air and water, by increasing the usage of solar energy, can have a tremendous impact on reversing the impact of pollution on health. The Sunshot Initiative, launched by the Department of Energy, has already begun seeing improvements.

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  • Drinking More Vodka: A Green Solution to Melting Icy Roads?

    December 05, 2014 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Pullman, Washington

    Salt has become a costly and environmental problem in the twenty first century, with consumers overusing it in cooking and melting city roads during the winter. Salt has risen in price and has infiltrated the waterways, affecting the life in the water and contaminating drinking water. As a greener alternative to salt, Washington State University scientists have learned that the biproducts of vodka can help melt ice and snow.

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  • Gwadar's Growing Water War

    January 04, 2018 |

    Pak Voices |

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    Response Location: Pakistan, Gwadar District, Balochistan

    When Gwadar’s dams ran dry in May 2017, the government began trucking in water. But the solution is costly, the water isn’t clean, and the trucking companies protested in November, claiming they weren’t paid on time. Desalination is an alternative, but it’s expensive too and fatal design flaws have crippled prior attempts at desalination in the province.

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  • Adaptation to Global Water Shortages

    May 16, 2018 |

    KCET-TV |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Morocco, Id Soussane

    Two very different part of the world – California’s Central Valley and Western Morocco – are learning to adapt to water shortages. In the Central Valley, finding and treating water in a notoriously drought-ridden state has been challenging, but a series of connected water districts experimenting with processes like reverse osmosis has showed promise. Halfway across the world, they’ve been using fog collection as a non-traditional method of capturing water so that the rural villages in Morocco can have access to water after decades of water shortages.

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  • Conundrum Hot Springs Has A Poop Problem, So You May Have To Bag Your Business

    July 17, 2017 |

    Colorado Public Radio |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Aspen, Colorado

    Hikers in Conundrum Hot Springs often do not properly dispose of their human waste, burying it or leaving it in the open where it can contaminate the water or make the trails less enjoyable. "Wag bags" are bags distributed to hikers to put their waste in and hike it out of the area and to a trash can.

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  • What Nairobi hotel businesses can learn from South Africa's water crisis

    May 09, 2018 |

    The Standard |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    With water scarcity a very real concept in South Africa, the hotels in the country may be able to learn how to survive by looking to Nairobi's various water conservation methods.

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  • In Haiti, a Building Fights Cholera

    September 12, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Haiti

    The cholera outbreak in Haiti affected and killed thousands of people. Treating patients as quickly as possible became a top priority. Mass Design Group designed Gheskio's Cholera Treatment Center as a building that promotes recovery with water sanitation, ultimately reducing the number of cases of Cholera.

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  • How Kayakers Saved a River and Started a Movement

    June 08, 2018 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Albright, West Virginia

    The Cheat River spans roughly 78 miles, running through eastern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania. It was once regarded as one of the most polluted rivers in America due to consequences of heavy mining in the region. As the whitewater adventure industry increased, however, so did the desire to clean up the river, which was how a group of kayakers formed what is now known as Friends of the Cheat.

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  • Environment Is Big Winner in U.S.–Mexico Colorado River Agreement

    October 05, 2017 |

    News Deeply |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Fe, New Mexico

    Expanding off of soon-to-expire agreement, the implementation of Minute 323 represents an agreement between the U.S. and Mexico to continue collaborations in order to manage and share resources from the Colorado River. This new agreement which increases water supply reliability for both sides of the border, also takes the earlier agreement even further, as it aims to revive sections of the river that haven't seen consistent water flow for years.

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  • Turning Rural Indians Into Water Entrepreneurs

    November 01, 2012 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: India

    In rural communities throughout India, having access to clean water does not always come easy. Sarvajal, originally a non-profit experiment, believes that water insecurity is a solvable issue, however. By helping those living in the rural communities take ownership through entrepreneurship, common sense, and the patience to reinvent old systems with more efficient technology, the group has achieved the ability to distribute small reverse-osmosis filtration plants and Water ATMs throughout the northwestern Indian states.

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