Posts Tagged as ‘water’

September 13, 2008

hey guess what, more poop in Indianapolis waterways

overflows have occurred in the past 72hours.
The affected areas include:
White River downstream from 56th Street, Fall Creek downstream from Keystone Avenue, Little Eagle Creek downstream from Michigan Street, Eagle Creek downstream from the confluence of Little Eagle Creek, Pogues Run downstream from 21st Street, Pleasant Run downstream from Kitley Avenue, State Ditch downstream from Southern [...]

September 9, 2008

Removing school lunch trays – twice the benefit

Cafeteria lunch trays are starting to disappear from lunch rooms across the country, primarily to conserve water.  A smart and justifiable move.  NPR tells me that we are discovering another added benefit to this move.  Students tend to eat less when they don’t have a tray to stack food on.  More on removing cafeteria trays [...]

September 9, 2008

more poop in Indianapolis surface water

Rain fell from the sky last night.  Therefore, there’s raw sewage over flowing in our creeks and rivers today, 9/9/08.
www.indycleanstreams.org

September 3, 2008

Indianapolis, raw sewage is flowing through your waterways today [alert]

Publicly owned, privately owned, I don’t care.  I don’t care that this has been happening for years.  If this is not a consistant topic of conversation on something as convenient as the Internet, then we deserve it.  Got this e-mail alert from the city that no one should come close to anything that resembles flowing [...]

August 23, 2008

be a smart consumer, kick the bottled water habit

plastic bottles filling landfills, bottled water not being discernable from tap water, and a waste of oil.  Re-introduce yourself to tap water…

August 23, 2008

Upcoming documentary asks, “How did corporations end up owning our water?”

FLOW is a 2008 Sundance film focusing on both the positive and negative aspects of a potential global water crisis.  This is a film Nap town residents, being Veolia customers and neighbors with Veolia Water’s North American headquarters.  The film interviews scientists and activists to evaluate the looming water crisis and the corporate and government culprits behind it.  From [...]