Water

A new advance in water generation from air looks at how plants cool themselves using ion channels.

The Talmud, a the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and Jewish theology, would grow so large that a person who read a folio a day would complete one cycle of the Talmud in seven and half years. To the surprise of many, buried among these pages are jewels of information about the “environment”. 

Tunisia is witnessing a worsening water crisis as the demand exceeds the available supply, reported the Tunis Afrique Presse this week. 

In a new survey by the French energy company Veolia, they found that 86% of Saudi residents in 2024 believe that climate change is real, compared to 59% in 2022, indicating a growing acknowledgment of climate change within the population.

Saudi Arabia is helping Yemen access clean water.

The Houthis are making it harder for everyday Yemeni people to get food and water. In a recent UN report by UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), they estimate that all of Yemen's freshwater resources will be depleted by 2030. 

In Yemen there are "girls who don’t have an education because they must spend their entire day walking hours to carry back water that is far too heavy for their bodies."

And like Kombucha, the origins of the "mother" substance are lost in ancient history.  Legend has it that Mohammed himself gifted the nomad community with the yellowish-white kefir culture "grains,"  and taught them how to ferment milk with them. We posted about black cumin, another legendary gift from Mohammed, here.

American chemical companies DuPont and Chemours have discharged toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) into the local environment, completely disregarding the rights and wellbeing of residents along the lower Cape Fear River in North Carolina, UN experts said today.

An insidious category of carcinogenic pollutants known as “forever chemicals” may not be so permanent after all University of California, Riverside, chemical engineering and environmental scientists recently published new methods to chemically break up these harmful substances found in drinking water into smaller compounds that are essentially harmless. 

Comprising more than 4,700 chemicals, perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of widely used, man-made chemicals that accumulate over time in humans and in the environment. They are known as ‘forever chemicals’ as they are extremely persistent in our environment and bodies.

A few years after a fresh influx of water raised its levels, the large lake has nearly gone dry and dried out completely in August 2023. Lake Urmia was the largest lake in the Middle East and was one of the largest hypersaline lakes.

Daniel Hillel proved that plants grown in continuously moist soil, achieved through micro-irrigation, produce higher yields than plants grown under flooding or sprinkler irrigation.

While the installation of a water softener is a direct solution to hard water, you can collect soft water from air conditioners, and there are also natural methods to consider:

Building better environmental regulation in your country, province, state or city? Look to the EPA guide for starters.