oneWorld oneWater

Explore The Ocean - Conserve it's resources

2010-08-09T19:24:00.000-07:00

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

2010-08-07T16:45:00.000-07:00

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,”

2010-06-24T17:16:00.000-07:00

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

2010-05-25T19:07:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-22T12:32:00.000-07:00

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

Did you know...? Facts and figures about the Pacific Islands

2010-03-18T12:39:00.000-07:00

There are about 30,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean, only 2,000 of which are inhabited. Many of the populated islands are less than 10 km2, while some, especially atolls, are less than 1 km2. The 18 Pacific Island countries and territories considered in this study account for 550,000 km2 of land and some 7 million inhabitants spread across 180 million km2 of ocean – about 36% of the earth’s surface.

Average annual rainfall varies considerably in the tropical Pacific, from over 4,000 mm to less than 500 mm. The higher altitudes of volcanic islands receive more rain, with about a 10% increase per 100 metre rise in elevation.

The limited freshwater supply in small Pacific islands is used for various purposes, including for towns, industrial activities, agriculture and forestry, tourism, environmental needs and mining. Non-consumptive uses include hydropower generation (e.g. in Fiji, Samoa and Vanuatu), navigation and recreation.

To meet growing demand, naturally occurring water resources are supplemented with non-conventional ones. The former are surface water, groundwater and rainwater collection; the latter include desalination, imports, wastewater recycling and use of seawater or brackish water for selected purposes where potable water is not needed.

Some islands, including in Fiji and Tonga, have imported water as an emergency measure during severe drought. In some instances, people move from water-scarce islands to others nearby with more water. On many small islands, local or imported bottled water is an alternative for drinking water, although it costs more than water supplied by local water authorities.

Many small islands, particularly coral atolls and small limestone islands, generally do not have sufficient water resources for irrigated agriculture, or suitable soil conditions. Irrigation on small islands thus tends to occur on a relatively minor scale except in cases like that of Fiji, where agriculture – primarily water-intensive cultivation of sugar cane as a cash crop – is the largest water user.

http://www.unesco.org/water/news/newsletter/228.shtml

http://www.worldwaterday2010.info/

Animations are worth Billions of words

2010-02-24T18:34:00.001-08:00

http://www.eea.europa.eu/multimedia/animations

Bridges for Water

2010-02-08T14:09:00.000-08:00

The purpose of this site is to connect Science & Policy, Art & Engineering, East & West to inspire healthy, clean, fresh, happy WATER for playing, drinking, ecosystem living, spiritual being, and bathing because who wants a smelly world?

This is a blog for now to start rambling and collecting ideas, comments, and thoughts. Eventually it’d be splendid to raise some money and do some projects that result in a couple happier water molecules and thus a slightly happier water girl because who wants an unhappy water girl?

Keep posted for some water ramblings. In the meantime check out the links over to the right. If you are interested surfrider sends out an e-mail called soup with interesting articles like Northwest waves ARE getting BIGGER!! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35079332/ns/us_news-environment/

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