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Sayel Cortes's Blog – April 2010 Archive (3)
Forest improve your water supply in a sustainable way!
The amount of water globally is pretty much fixed, yet, at a local level, water supply is affected by several environmental conditions as weather, vegetation, orography, etc. While we can't do much to change most of them, vegetation is one we can modify which can increase local water supply. I found this text about this kind of environmental services from forest:
Forests and Water Linkages
Water in… ContinueAdded by Sayel Cortes on April 12, 2010 at 5:30am — 2 Comments
Joining some water movement -> Water and Youth!
For this mission I remembered a friend who told me that worked in water issues, so I went to his facebook, got the webpage of Water and Youth and got there. I was surprised to see that it´s a social network, so I joined it and I'm starting to get to use it. I'm not really sure how much I can do there, but I already started a group about Environmental Services and Water which I believe is an important issue. Hope to get some discussion about this there (and maybe also here =P) so feel free to… Continue
Added by Sayel Cortes on April 10, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments
Innovative way to get clean water
Evaporation is a great way to clean the water. The problem is that it consumes a lot of energy. There are several designs to use solar energy to use this. Despite being slow, I found this method to do it easily and cheap:
Solar Still - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_still
The basic idea is to put a plastic sheet over a h*** in the soil. Soil's humidity gets evaporated by the heat… Continue
Solar Still - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_still
The basic idea is to put a plastic sheet over a h*** in the soil. Soil's humidity gets evaporated by the heat… Continue
Added by Sayel Cortes on April 10, 2010 at 3:58am — No Comments
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