
Hope for Water Woes in Fracking Technologies
For years, water, or, more accurately, its scarcity, has been predicted to be the next doomsday scenario.

For years, water, or, more accurately, its scarcity, has been predicted to be the next doomsday scenario.

California will suffer severe shortages, with or without a warmer planet. We need to act soon. Water policy may not generate flashy headlines, and politicians who lay the foundations for reform may not be in office ten or twenty years from now, when credit is handed out. But it can be done. Israel has shown us how.

It should matter a great deal if their preferred policies are effective, and while we argue about the possibilities of a subject such as climate change, the effectiveness of programs which have been in place for many years should be analyzed dispassionately.

On Saturday, in spite of a crushing California drought, the Waterworld water park in Concord opened for its 20th season, fending off criticism of its water use by citing a new machine called The Defender, which is a regenerative media filter. The Defender will recycle the pool water in the park so that the park will use no more than the one million gallons with which it starts the season, officials claim.

Obama’s National Security Agency isn’t just for spying anymore—with the introduction of its new cartoon character aimed at urging kids to recycle, the spy agency has now joined the green movement.