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Pushing Back the Desert with Water Retention Landscapes ...

One billion people lack access to sufficient clean water, and many more lack clean water to grow the food they need. Led by Sepp Holzer and Bernd Mueller, the folks at the Tamera, an ecovillage in Portugal (one of the most water stressed countries in the world) have shown that water desertification problems can be solved with solutions such as water retention landscaping, a concept based on permaculture ideas ...

Salmon are better known for floating in garlic butter than for swimming by the Eiffel Tower in Paris' River Seine. But times are a changing.

Salmon and dozens of other fish species are returning to the River Seine in Paris, thanks to improved water quality. Atlantic salmon, a European endangered fish species, along with other species of fish, had called the River Seine home for thousands of years until the 18th century when the population sizes started to decline, until only three species remained resident in the Seine in 1995 ...

To know your water is to love your water.

Can you possibly know everything about the "elixir of life"? Nope, you really can't. But you can begin the process of understanding the value of water by reading and sharing our Top Water Trivia Facts, which we compiled just for you. Share our comprehensive list of the Top 216 Water Trivia Facts below and begin to see how loving water and water consciousness work hand in hand. In fact, this may well be the most complete list of water trivia ever compiled ...

Good water news from the land of the Kiwis.

One man can make a difference. That man is Jim Tucker.

Jim Tucker, a former journalist for the Taranaki Herald in New Zealand, has recently started to write about the New Zealand Taranaki region's community involvement in restoring the area’s waterways and coastal waters, but in many ways his story is just as interesting. Tucker started telling this tale in the early 1970s when he started reporting on the effluent from farms pouring into streams.