RainThanks & Greywater

09/03/2023

In Bermuda, there must be a way of calculating how much water can be collected and how much to use...

05/09/2020

Please don't spray, you'll kill our native bees. Other countries live with the hornet. Stay calm and protect our native bees🐝💚

Asian giant hornets (a.k.a. murder hornets) have been spotted only in Washington state and Canada. Traps elsewhere are killing beneficial native wasps and bees.

07/31/2019

These water engineers are saved for now. 🙏💚

Center for Biological Diversity: SACRAMENTO— The federal wildlife-killing program known as Wildlife Services has agreed to stop shooting and trapping California beavers on more than 11,000 miles of river and 4 million acres of land where the killing could hurt endangered wildlife.

07/17/2019

Greywater in India!

Ajit Gokhale's reed bed system can be installed anywhere, from housing societies and educational institutions to companies and villages. Its capacity to treat water? From as low as 500 litres/day to 15,00,000 litres and even more!

04/03/2019

Water geeks! Some great diagrams on use and where to conserve.
Thanks to Todd Reubold at Ensia.

The U.S. withdraws 322 billion gallons of water each day. These maps and charts show where it goes.

03/29/2019

Water breaks all the rules of chemistry, it's quite a mystery!

02/26/2019

We may have no choice. Best solution is to plant a few fruits trees and irrigate with greywater. Bare root trees are at the nursery now, it is a great time to plant them.

The Public Policy Institute of California has a new study out on water use in California. For the San Joaquin Valley, it says 500,000 irrigated acres of cropland will need to go out of production.

01/30/2019