The green wave of geothermal heat pump technology continues to rise in popularity across the Midwest. At the epicenter is Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, 60 miles northeast of Indianapolis. The university is having the nation's largest ground source geothermal heating and cooling system ...
Water Tight 3.0: The top issues in the global water sector Climate change is heightening uncertainty in water management Managing water resources in the United States: Challenges and fragmented approaches Water use challenges across the country vary by geography and depend on factors such as popul...
Linking City Planning and Public Health in the United States The professional fields of planning and public health both arose from the Progressive movement of the early twentieth century. The fields share many common concerns, including air and water pollution, disposal of hazardous waste, the sic....
Public participation in a watershed planning process involves reaching out to social groups with very diverse opinions and perceptions about environmental issues. Using responses to a nationwide survey of public attitudes and perceptions related to water issues, we examined the effects of socio-demographic...
In the face of this crisis, water resources and its management play key roles in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (UN, 2019). As the world's top two economies, the United States (U.S.) and China also face a number of similar water resources management ...
UNITED NATIONS, June 6 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations was inundated on Tuesday by water issues: The Ocean Conference focused on rising, polluted seas while the Security Council examined the threat to international peace and security by conflicts involving fresh water that crosses borders. ...
The widespread and unjust drinking water and clean water crisis in the United States Article Open access 22 June 2021 Data availability The data that support the findings of this study are available in the Supplementary Information or by request from the authors. References Strategic Report: Envi...
In 1996, a study in Iowa in the United States found that over half the state's groundwater wells were contaminated with weed killers. You might think things would have improved since then, but, two decades on, all that's really changed is the name of the chemicals we're using. Today,...
The DRIs were established by the IOM mostly to prevent the adverse effects of dehydration, and the IOM report indicates that considerable inter-individual variation exists in terms of necessary amounts of water to be consumed. Beyond issues of hydration, previous studies have shown that plain ...
"The upper basin states have absolutely been underutilizing their amounts compared to the lower basin states, and California being the most egregious example of that," Cox has said. The Colorado River is severely threatened by human overuse, environmental issues, and poor river management technique...