Dream Project

Utilize modeling, GIS, water and wastewater policy, Integrated Water Resource Management, watershed management, best management practices for sedimentation control, sewer and septic and wastewater/water treatment technologies to design a holistic water system that results in pure healthy streams, estuaries and drinking water resources on the Island of Tutuila in American Samoa.

Happy World Water Day

Check out great water videos on the water channel
http://www.thewaterchannel.tv

Explore The Ocean - Conserve it's resources

Want to go on an adventure that is meaningful? Want to get out behind your desk and see the ocean for yourself? Join up on part of Pangaea's Exploration Sailing Expeditions.

http://panexplore.com/

Feel the Flow

Just watched a documentary called Flow.

Thousands have lived without love not one without water.

The interesting yet not surprising thing is great successes in water rights have come from a small group of passionate people. This documentary is the tough truth with statistics on millions dying from water born illness, rocket fuel contaminated water supply in the US and the threat of water wars. Although I prefer to focus on the joy of water and small real actions that help conserve and protect it, this documentary was very informative and reiterates the ridiculousness of the bottled water trend.

For a list of water action organizations: http://www.flowthefilm.com/takeaction

“The bottled water companies are draining our aquifers and selling it back to us,”

I am not against companies or profit, but lets use good ideas, innovative ones stemming from humanities ingenuity not from its laziness. IDEA lets create a little plastic bottle for every 8 oz of water that we drink that then gets thrown away where it never decomposes and end up who knows where FOREVER. Where is the ingenuity in that? I know it is now in our culture, but it doesn't make sense. I see plastic bottles everywhere on this small island of American Samoa. I can't imagine how many are in our landfills on the mainland USA that we just don't think about because we can't see them. Many end up in the middle of the Pacific. Pacific Garbage Patch style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLrVCI4N67M



YOU CAN ELIMINATE PLASTIC BOTTLES OF EMPTY THAT WERE ONCE FILLED WITH WATER!

Drink water from your tap.

Carry a reusable bottle and fill it up.

Consider a plastic water bottle ban.

Look at what Mrs. Hill is doing in a small Massachusetts Town.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/us/23water.html?src=sch&pagewanted=all

The Plastiki Expedition

What to do with all the plastic water bottles I drink? No recycling program in American Samoa. Trying to get ideas for how to fix this problem but in the meantime check this out http://www.theplastiki.com/

I think I should attempt to build a raft. Or maybe send messages in bottles and ask people to report their findings to this website? What can we do with all the trash? There have got to be many fun creative ways to use it. Great example Plastiki Expedition!

Happy World Water Day

Watch this!
The Cycle of Insanity: The Real Story of Water
http://vimeo.com/10328536