Meat & Water: the steaks are high
Whoever has been haunted by the 1973 film Soylent Green may remember the jubilation of detective Robert Thorn (played by Charlton Heston) upon finding and stealing a dry beef steak while investigating a crime scene. In his world at least, set in the not too distant year 2022, meat production is rare, as are any [...]
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Water isn’t just something you give to houseplants: water and the environment
Throughout our ecosystem water plays a complex and important role. But countless important water sources, from the Ganges to the Colorado and the Aral and Chad Sea, are threatened by extensive outtake and pollution, a situation aggrevated by climate change. In out new water portal you’ll find well-researched theses and exciting solutions in the realm [...]
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Tags: environment, Water
They are everything but still: Our experts share their experience concerning water and food
It sounds banal, but it’s vital: agriculture requires water. And people need agriculture to have full stomachs. It’s difficult to find an area of human life that is untouched by water. The areas affected by water problems vary so radically, as do their solutions. In our new water-portal our experts describe their experiences in the [...]
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Water Knowledge – a Pilotproject on betterplace.org
Today we are going online with an additional offering on betterplace.org: a knowledge portal on water. Over the past 3 months, the betterplace lab team, headed by Angela Ullrich as project manager and supported by a great crew contributors, has assembled relevant water knowhow for users of the betterplace plattform. Our portal addresses donors and [...]
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Tags: Water, world water day
Deep Water – the experts for drinking water and sanitation
They are everything but still: Our the new water portal on betterplace.org experts share their experience from the field: Hannelore Knott has worked in a rural well program in Cameroon. In her interview, she explains why it is sometimes so complicated to drill a simple hole in the earth. And what are the consequences from [...]
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Tags: drinking water, Kenya Rural Water Project, Playpumps, sanitation