courtesy of Alaska Dispatch – by Jill Burke
PITKAS POINT — For the first time, villagers here are getting a chance to indulge in an everyday pleasantry most homes in America take for granted: hot baths, working toilets, on-demand water for the kitchen sink.
“The first time I flushed the toilet I got scared and …
Continue reading Rural Alaska village welcomes toilets, modern plumbingcourtesy of AccuWeather.com
Days of hot weather and aging water pipes have resulted in daily water main breaks throughout Texas.
Houston’s Mayor Annise Parker told MSNBC that the city is experiencing over 700 breaks a day along 7,000 miles of pipes. The city normally averages about 200 breaks a day in the summer.
Arlington is …
Continue reading Heat Causes 700 Water Main Breaks Daily in Houstonas seen on TreeHugger.com, a Discovery Company
The demand for water in Dhaka, Bangladesh is 2.4 billion liters a day, but the city can only produce 2.1 billion liters, according to the country’s Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA). According to other estimates, the gap between supply and demand may be even larger, AlertNet reports. …
Continue reading Dhaka, Bangladesh to Become Next City to Require Rainwater HarvestingKIGALI, Rwanda — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the launch of a strategy to help bring safe, clean sanitation services to millions of poor people in the developing world.
In a keynote address at the 2011 AfricaSan Conference in Kigali, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the foundation’s Global Development Program, called on …
Continue reading Gates Foundation Launches Effort to Reinvent the ToiletDALLAS, May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — IPEX Inc. and IPEX USA LLC(“IPEX”) and Counsel for the Plaintiffs in re: Kitec Plumbing System Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket NO. 2098 (N.D. Tx.) and the Canadian actions of Rosati, et al. v. IPEX Inc., et al., Ontario Superior Court of Justice, File No. CV-09-13459 and Cooke, et …
Continue reading IPEX Inc and IPEX USA LLC Settle Class Action Lawsuit Regarding Kitec Plumbing SystemsPoliticians seem to believe that if we simply force lower and lower amounts of water in toilets that all will be fine. We feel that they have a lot to learn.
For a number of years now in order to save water as well as desiring to treat and process less sewage, San Francisco has …
Continue reading Super ultra low flow toilets are causing problems for the City of San Francisco
