References

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Header Photo: Vicki Francis/Department for International Development

Post: What the Frack?

http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/whats-fracking#faq

Ian Urbina (3 March 2011). “Pressure Limits Efforts to Police Drilling for Gas”The New York Times. Retrieved23 February 2012.

http://earthjustice.org/features/campaigns/fracking-across-the-united-states

http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=7308:poll-sixtyfive-percent-of-americans-want-more-fracking-regulations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing

http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/science-a-environmental/31271-california-regulators-turn-a-blind-eye-to-fracking-.html

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/14/local/la-me-oil-fracking-20120315

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2853361/posts

Post: Amazing People Doing Amazing Things: Dr. Ashok Gadgil

http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/ilives/uvwater.html

http://today.lbl.gov/2011/05/19/ashok-gadgil-wins-european-inventor-award-for-uv-waterworks/

http://tech.ashoka.org/ashok_gadgil_uv_waterworks

http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/ima/gadgil_bio.html

WaterHealth International press release.

http://eetd.lbl.gov/l2m2/waterworks.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashok_Gadgil

Post: Afghanistan’s Water Crisis

Photo: Reuters/ Omar Sobhani

http://www.irinnews.org/Report/93156/PHOTOGALLERY-Afghanistan-s-water-crisis

http://www.irinnews.org/Report/17912/AFGHANISTAN-Focus-on-Kabul-water-crisis

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/19/kabul-faces-severe-water-crisis

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/03/24/us-afghanistan-water-idUSTRE62N19Q20100324

http://washasia.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/afghanistan-groundwater-overuse-could-cause-severe-water-shortage/

AfghanistanHuman Development Report 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salma_Dam

http://iwpr.net/report-news/water-pollution-silent-killer-north-afghan-district

Post: Amazing People Doing Amazing Things – Rus Alit

http://www.campbali.com/

http://thehefleys.com/tag/rus-alit/

http://www.baliappropriatetechnology.org

83.70.181.166/moodlecp9a/mod/glossary/view.php

http://www.accontrols.com/documents/FeetHeadofWatertoPSI.pdf

http://www.baliadvertiser.biz/articles/greenspeak/2010/water.html

photo: http://unex-treasure.blogspot.com/2007/12/rus-alit-appropriate-technology-site.html

Video’s: youtube.com/gregg c. scott

Post: Water Contamination in Bangladesh

Photo: Water.org

http://brighterdawns.org/the-brighter-times/2011-05/water/

http://www.sos-arsenic.net/

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bg.html

http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.1002804

http://www-tc.iaea.org/tcweb/publications/factsheets/arsenic_contamination.pdf

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=why-bangladesh-water-contains-arsen-09-11-16\

http://phys4.harvard.edu/~wilson/arsenic/references/Patel_thesis.html

http://www.virtualbangladesh.com/bd_geog_climate.html

Post: Blue Gold: World Water Wars

Picture: www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com

Trailer: youtube.com

Post: Nadi Filters

http://www.imow.org/dynamic/user_files/file_name_82.pdf

Post: Wastewater Solutions:  Artificial Wetlands

http://wetlandsolutionsinc.com/wwd_treatment_wetlands.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcata_Marsh#cite_note-2

http://www.humboldt.edu/arcatamarsh/overview.html

http://www.aehms.org/pdf/Bista%20%26%20Khatiwada%20FE.pdf

http://waterwiki.net/index.php/Egypt_-_Building_an_artificial_wetland_to_treat_wastewater

http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/pdf/hand.pdf

www.wikipedia.com

Video: Uploaded to YouTube.com by UNDPRArabStates and Courtesy of Engineered Wetlands Project that is supported  by UNDP Egypt Country Office.

Post:  Water Heroes: Kellogg Schwab

http://globalwater.jhu.edu/bio/54/

http://globalwater.jhu.edu/research/project/technology_based_evaluation_of_waterborne_chemical_and_microbial_contaminan/

http://globalwater.jhu.edu/research/project/improving_potable_water_access_to_low-income_rural_populations_are_kiosks/

http://earthsky.org/water/kellogg-schwab-on-the-human-challenges-of-clean-water

http://globalwater.jhu.edu/index.php/research/project/an_investigation_of_drinking_water_quality_in_the_peruvian_amazon/

 Post: Ecotact’s IkoToilet

http://www.acumenfund.org/investment/ecotact-limited.html

http://www.ecotact.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHc34LeBZY4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB_yLS1WwMY

Post: Who Do You Buy Your Clothing From?

http://www.ipe.org.cn/Upload/Report-Textiles-One-EN.pdf

Post: Water Heroes: Ma Jun

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/15/MNP21O2EJK.DTL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Jun_(environmentalist)

http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/ma-jun

Post: Lifesaver Bottle

http://www.lifesaversystems.com

Post: WASH and Equity Webinar

WHO/UNICEF via the World Bank-RWSN Webinar Series

Post: Water Heroes: Rajendra Singh

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2984966.ece

http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1817/18170810.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_Singh

Post: World Bank-RWSN COWASH Webinar

WHO/UNICEF via the World Bank-RWSN Webinar Series

Post: Water Heroes: Lynn Henning

http://www.goldmanprize.org/2010/northamerica

http://moralheroes.org/lynn-henning

Post: Alternatives to Dams: The Free Flow Kinetic Hydropower System

http://ijolite.geology.uiuc.edu/05sprgclass/geo497/class%2013%20/big%20dams.htm

http://verdantpower.com

youtube.com

Post: Water Saving Technologies: Film Farming

http://www.springwise.com/eco_sustainability/film-farming-soil-one-tenth-water/

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe70s/water_01.html

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/darticlen.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2012/March/theuae_March440.xml&section=theuae

Post: A Different way to Treat your Wastewater

www.livingmachine.com

Post: Ethiopia’s Lake Koka: The Green Lake

http://www.gadaa.com/LakeKoka.html

http://www.oromoliberationfront.org/News/2009/Case_Study_One_-_Lake_Koka%5B2%5D.pdf

http://gadaa.com/oduu/794/2009/09/28/ethiopia-osa-calls-for-assessments-of-lake-koka-pollution-letter-to-pittards/

Post: Clean Energy: BioPower Systems’ bioWave

http://www.theurbn.com/2012/03/ocean-energy-and-biowaves-of-the-future/

http://www.biopowersystems.com/biowave.html

Post: Pakistan, Flooding, and Agroforestry

http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/tree-planting-helps-pakistani-farmers-weather-floods?utm_source=Circle+of+Blue+WaterNews+%26+Alerts&utm_campaign=932ce36230-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Pakistan

Post: Water Heroes: Juan Pablo Orrego

http://www.rightlivelihood.org/orrego.html

http://www.goldmanprize.org/1997/southcentralamerica

http://www.thecleanestline.com/2011/08/juan-pablo-orrego-explains-why-hidroaysen-threatens-the-heart-of-chilean-patagonia.html

Post: Are Nanoparticles the Water Detox Solution We’ve Been Looking For?

http://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-technology/nanoparticles-seek-and-destroy-groundwater-toxins

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-nanoparticles.htm

http://nanogloss.com/nanoparticles/what-are-nanoparticles/#axzz1xcT548Bd

Post: New Tech to Help Improve Sanitation in Jakarta Slums

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2012/0619/Three-wheeled-carts-better-septic-tanks-help-clean-up-Jakarta

http://www.globalenvision.org/2012/06/18/disruptive-sanitation-can-3-wheeled-carts-and-better-septic-tanks-clean-jakarta

Post: Growing Vegetables from the Sea

http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/02/18/seawater-greenhouses-produce-tomatoes-in-the-desert/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/02/alternativeenergy.solarpower

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater_greenhouse

Post: Eco-Latrine of the Future: Tiger Toilets

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/watersanitationhygiene/Documents/wsh-strategy-overview.pdf

http://www.sanitationventures.com/innovation-creating-the-tiger-toilet.htm

http://www.sanitationventures.com/_pdf/Project-Tiger-Concept-Research.pdf

Post: The Plight of the Gulf of California

http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/wherewework/gulfofca/

http://www.usbr.gov/uc/library/envdocs/reports/crs/pdfs/crs962000.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River#cite_note-192

 Post: Protecting our Waterways Naturally: Riparian Buffers

http://www.riverkeepers.org/pdf/riparian_buffers_fact_sheet.pdf

http://openagricola.nal.usda.gov/Record/IND23212351

http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/420/420-151/420-151_pdf.pdf

http://psep.cce.cornell.edu/facts-slides-self/facts/nit-heef-grw85.aspx

Post: Why Hydroelectricity from Dams is Not Clean

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/mar/08-dams-hoover-three-gorges-crumbling-ones/

http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/faqs/damfaqs.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%E2%80%93cement_ratio

http://inhabitat.com/is-it-green-concrete/

http://www.internationalrivers.org/dams-and-water-quality

Post: Water Heroes: Chewang Norphel

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/6449982/Indian-engineer-builds-new-glaciers-to-stop-global-warming.html

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1717149,00.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0830_artglacier_2.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewang_Norphel

Post: Polluted Rivers: The Ciliwung

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/02/13/beyond-statistics-poverty.html

http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95343/INDONESIA-Living-with-dirty-water

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/09/our-beloved-rivers-waste.html

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/city/ciliwung-cleaned-for-big-day/313629

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/big-plans-for-ciliwung-one-of-worlds-most-polluted-rivers/506869

Post: Savings Lives with Community-Led Total Sanitation

World Health Organization. Safer Water, Better Health: Costs, benefits, and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health. Available at http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241596435_eng.pdf

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/monitoring/jmp2012/fast_facts/en/index.html

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/diseases/diarrhoea/en/

http://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/3726/Shailesh%20Rai%20-%20Master’s%20Project.pdf?sequence=1

http://foodsecurityatlas.org/afg/country/socioeconomic-profile/introduction#section-1

USAID – Global Waters – Volume III, Issue II, June 2012

http://www.communityledtotalsanitation.org

Post: Water Heroes: Ma Tsepo Khumbane

http://waterforfood.nebraska.edu/2012-conference-speakers/matshepo-khumbane

http://annualseminar2010.cta.int/blog/397-innovative-drip-irrigation-and-environmental-management-ma-tsepo-khumbane

http://esa.un.org/iys/docs/san_lib_docs/Listening_English_full_pages.pdf

http://www.iwrm.co.za/resource%20doc/iwrm2/homestead_farming_and_rainwater_harvesting_guidelines/DWAF_Rainwater_Harvesting_Guidelines_082007.pdf

Post: Sand Dams:  An Old Technology Saving Lives in the Present

http://www.sanddam.org/

http://www.excellentdevelopment.com/

http://internationalmedicalcorps.org/Page.aspx?pid=501&gclid=CKKD15jc1rECFeUaQgod324Apw

Post: The Niger Delta: Soaked in Oil

http://www.good.is/post/more-oil-spilled-in-nigeria-every-year-than-in-gulf-of-mexico/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/nigeria/120624/nigeria-oil-pollution-sickens-communities

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Delta

http://web.archive.org/web/20080430164524/http://www.aehsmag.com/issues/2001/october/impacts.htm

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/oil-industry-has-brought-poverty-and-pollution-to-niger-delta-20090630

http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.1002953

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_the_Emancipation_of_the_Niger_Delta

http://www.green-blog.org/2011/08/16/drinking-water-in-nigeria-polluted-with-benzene-at-levels-900-times-above-the-limit/

Post: Summary of Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Resources: Separating the Frack from the Fiction; A Report by the Pacific Institute

http://www.pacinst.org/reports/fracking/full_report.pdf

Post:  Mazhapolima: Keeping Water in your Well Year Round

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-propertyplus/article3457587.ece

http://www.indiawaterportal.org/sites/indiawaterportal.org/files/Mazhapolima%20Participatory%20Well%20Recharge%20Programme_Process%20Document_2009.pdf

http://www.indiawaterportal.org/sites/indiawaterportal.org/files/Mazhapolima%20Participatory%20Well%20Recharge%20Programme_Concept%20Note_2009.pdf

http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/2867

http://aswinkokkat.blogspot.com/2011/04/mazhapolima.html

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