Tag: water scarcity

Lebanon in a time of cholera

Cholera always sounds like an epidemic of the past, but it's becoming a public health emergency in Lebanon and Syria as the bacteria spreads.

5 Ways To Use Air-Conditioner Water

Air conditioners pull water from the air, literally. It's distilled so not great to drink, but useful in other ways.

Fiery May heatwave is setting Israel ablaze

Israel is smoking hot when it comes to tech start-ups, fashion, and vegetarian cuisine, but yesterday it showed signs...

Bamboo Warka Water towers pull drinking water out of thin air

Italian architect Arturo Vittori and his colleague Andreas Vogler designed a low-tech machine, based on passive design, that can produce between...

NOMADD robots clean Saudi solar panels without using a drop of water

Saudi Arabia is a desert country with no freshwater resources. Every day the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) produces more...

Iranian man shows #farmlove with inspiring Instagram photos

For some, being a farmer is suicidal. Water and land are scarce, small farmers struggle to compete with the likes of Monsanto, and there...

The edible Ooho water bottle could save us from plastic

Plastic. No word assaults our sensibilities more. Plastic in the bellies of baby birds; plastic strangling marine animals; plastic...

MIT Fog Harvesting Material Yields 5x More H20

Gulf countries like Abu Dhabi may lack freshwater resources, but they also have a lot of humidity. MIT's new...

Israel’s Genetically Modified “Superplants” Thrive in Arid Areas

Genetically-modified food has a bad reputation mostly because many food giants are mixing non-plant DNA to create drought and...

Israel and Jordan Strike Brilliant Water Trade Deal

When the $10 billion Red-Dead Canal plan got the axe earlier in August, we discussed plan B for restoring some...

Iran’s Water Woes More Worrying than War

International media is so obsessed with Iran's forbidden access to nuclear energy and the possibility of war that a...

Photoflow Generates Energy and Captures Rainwater with One Elegant Unit

The Middle East faces dire water scarcity and in some places energy comes at a premium too, but we...