Water purification at point of use

At source water purification

There's a lot to be done in the world of water management.  Millions of lives could be saved by people boiling their water before drinking.   Boiling also gets rid of excess chlorine.   

Millions of lives could be saved by better food prep and hygiene.   Washing hands before cooking, making sure food such as cooked rice doesn't stay at room temperature for too long.

Boiling does not clean the water from some algaes eg Great Lakes,   In some cases boiling algae water can make the water more toxic.

Some methods to clean and desalinate water at point of use.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_still

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis

Solar kettles,  fragile but they do work on sunny days

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Contemporary-Energy-Ltd-T-43-Kettle/dp/B009YFSKKY

Home distillation units

http://www.moneycrashers.com/make-distilled-water-drinking-home/

Home filtration units,    (A lot of bother maintaining replacing filters) pro pure seems pretty good.   Anything has to be better than trusting the crap coming out the tap.

http://youtu.be/QtCiJfq87_c

Water purification tablets and powders.

(Can't help thinking that relying on powder for clean water something has gone terribly wrong.)

Water resilient cities of the future

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/liveable-cities
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/liveable-cities

See also this post on the energy food water nexus.
http://frackingvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/water-energy-food-nexus.html
http://frackingvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/water-energy-food-nexus.html

I have found this free course to be incredibly illuminating, informative and challenging.    It offers some real practical solutions to making water resilient, liveable and sustainable water based  cities.

It is based on the solutions found by Australia during the millennial drought/ floods.   It is run by monash uni.    

Water cities of the future

Day 1

http://youtu.be/KlHtUY5OFE4

Day 1 pt 2

http://youtu.be/WYoIDN5UQfk

Day 2 pt 1

http://youtu.be/YX-ZfBRLy4A

Arabian city of e future

http://youtu.be/NIaz61zpLfs

Film to prevent flooding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1_yVjtKH5o&feature=youtu.be

Water energy food nexus

 Water Energy Food Nexus

Some very interesting points on water usage. 

WEEK 2: Integrated urban water management (IUWM)

see futurelearn for free course

 Water for Liveable and Resilient Cities  by MONASH UNIVERSITY

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/liveable-cities/todo/1427

With so much potential to do so much in this world we need to be looking at cleaner more sustainable forms of energy.  
  

China now has more wind power capability than the entire nuclear output of the USA.     

Integrated urban water management (IUWM)

https://youtu.be/-Q2N-F1AI4k

Professor Gustaf Olsson of the Lund University of Sweden has researched and published widely on the Water-Energy Nexus.    Olsson also mentions water cost of hydroelectric in africa through evaporation.    I wonder if this could be mitigated with solar panel covers floating on the water.   Possible impacts on wildlife and water quality i guess.

Guardian talk about food energy water nexus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j9oDv0lR0I

Larry Swatuk on the water-energy-food "nexus"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF2TSy-Bk6w

Be Positive about the environment !

TEDxWWF - Andy Wales: The Water-Food-Energy Nexus - Why Eve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-eATjiXTOQ

china now has a wind capability greater than the nuclear output of the usa

http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/china-s-wind-farms-produce-more-energy-than-all-us-nuclear-plants/article/427802
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/china-s-wind-farms-produce-more-energy-than-all-us-nuclear-plants/article/427802

Congressman and senator vs fracking

Congressman and senator vs fracking

Congressman Maurice hinchey

http://youtu.be/fC56XjHWIHo

Senator tony avella 

http://youtu.be/Ismrx0nXXic

Lord Wigley House of Lords

http://youtu.be/8w7EI3m0tQQ

Starts 4 mins in here interview with senator tony avella

http://youtu.be/UNxfWrQryqo

The Halliburton loophole

Explain to me please why fracking is exempt from the Safe drinking water act ?   

This was introduced by dick cheny  who was Vice President of halliburton.   

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/opinion/03tue3.html?_r=0

Halliburton loophole

http://www.earthworksaction.org/issues/detail/inadequate_regulation_of_hydraulic_fracturing#.VP9U0IbfWrU

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/opinion/03tue3.html?_r=0

Epa whistleblowers on epa cover up.

http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059985281

http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/08/05/censored-epa-pennsylvania-fracking-water-contamination-presentation-published-first-time

Just mix it with orange juice

"Just mix it with orange juice"

People make mistakes, accidents happen.

 Water companies may attempt to cover up mistakes to avoid liability.

 A buffer helps to catch these mistakes before people drink it. 

See this case study camelford.

Some idiot connected the wrong pipes and poisoned 20 thousand people.

People who phoned up to complain and report the accident where told there was nothing wrong and just to mix the water with orange juice.

http://youtu.be/_cUxyOuBIXE

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17368531

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-11720343

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-502442/A-lethal-cover-Britains-worst-water-poisoning-scandal.html

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelford_water_pollution_incident

Fracking is ballast

Fracking is ballast

https://www.ted.com/talks/bertrand_piccard_s_solar_powered_adventure

Human canaries in the coal mine

Canaries in the coal mine.

The main reason to be hardline about it is watching the experiences of others who niavely  said yes to the gentle lies and then found their entire land, livelihood and living standards violated.    Fracking is all or nothing.   You cannot be a little bit fracked.    Once they are in across the threshold they do what they want.   That has been the experience everywhere else .

If ucg processes i.e. csg and fracking are such benevolent boons to a community why is it that in every area that it has been introduced there are vociferous locals saying they wish it had never been allowed in their locality?

john jenkyn  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLop5lc7OQ 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLop5lc7OQ

http://youtu.be/Jk5zDQ-rMa0

This industry has made normal people so angry with their lies, incompetence, secrets, corruption and non disclosure agreements it has made activists out of normal people.

Here are some of the human canaries singing out for help and in warning.

Terry greenwood america

http://youtu.be/Mq-8nCCGSzg

John Fenton america

http://youtu.be/SP_O-u0VI0Y

Jessica Ernst Canada

http://youtu.be/4zPsefMA-70

(Animation Doreen's story http://youtu.be/BYniYtJEeeI  )

Ian crane  and Brian monk Australia

http://youtu.be/EryAtW-aNNU

http://www.gofundme.com/lot0m0

David monk

http://youtu.be/Jk5zDQ-rMa0

Deborah Rogers frackanomics 

http://youtu.be/5SzO1UJuduw

Gasland doc

http://youtu.be/6mp4ELXKv-w

Scott Ely

http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/gas-company-whistle-blower-details-spills-errors-1.1234817#axzz1fPP4MNnN

http://www.propublica.org/article/so-is-dimocks-water-really-safe-to-drink

Former mayor Calvin Tillman advocate against fracking

http://youtu.be/2X2PJRgBcTk

42 DB bubbling stream or a library

Posted to this mooc ....  Re sound levels 42 db goal.

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/shale-gas/todo/1632

42 DB. "A bubbling stream as quiet as a library."

42 db is a blatant lie.

Re noise, nuisance and public health .....   

It depends when and where the noise measurement is being taken.

This a deliberately misleading number.  Depending a great deal on distance and measuring at the quiet times of an operation.   

This just cannot be true for peak noise levels during the entire fracking drilling and production process.

42 db... That does not include flaring or noise from trucks.

It's good to set goals .... 

What are the financial penalties for breaching those sound boundaries? 

Will the dbs be monitored hourly? 

I recommend something like 1000 to 10000 pound fine every hour or part there of that the sound level limit is breached. To be paid to local residents affected.

Traffic noise is 70 to 90 dbs passing on street.

The diesel generators pump out that kind of noise. Approx 120 db.

The flaring can reach jet engine levels.  Approx 150 db. 

Realistically it has to be measured from people's gardens and their bedrooms.

Noise obeys the inverse square law so distance from residential is the key.   Double the distance and divide the noise by 4.

If we measure at origin noise levels easily above 100 db.

Examples of fracking noise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPE2RU5099U

http://youtu.be/LGqmwc4bGJY

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/fracking/11361435/Cuadrilla-fracking-plans-noise-as-quiet-as-a-library-deemed-unacceptable.html

http://ceds.org/pdfdocs/Chapter14.pdf

http://home.earthlink.net/~dnitzer/4HaasEaton/Decibel.html

http://planningregister.lancashire.gov.uk/Attachments/6586/0096%20Noise%20mitigation%20proposals-%20Preston%20New%20Road%20Exploration%20Site%20(2).pdf

http://planningregister.lancashire.gov.uk/PlanAppDisp.aspx?recno=6586

Independent monitoring assets

http://www.hse.gov.uk/shale-gas/assets/docs/shale-gas.pdf