Marvelous Melbourne a sustainable water live able city versus CSG in the country

Marvelous Melbourne a sustainable water live able city versus CSG in the countryside. 

How can Australian cities be doing such great work with green washing cities

( Reclaim the roads! See greener roads from concrete.

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

See also LA  https://www.treepeople.org/?hc_location=ufi  )

See also London https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/environment-and-planning/planning/heritage-and-design/Documents/open-spaces-strategy.pdf?hc_location=ufi

and at the same time national government destroying rural people's lives with csg extraction? In the country so not an urban problem?

Doesn't unconventional gas extraction have huge implications on water supply?

John jenkyn....

https://vimeo.com/108772168

Ian crane  and Brian monk Australia

http://youtu.be/EryAtW-aNNU

http://www.gofundme.com/lot0m0

I am pretty sure this isn’t going to help liveable cities…

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Great_Barrier_Reef_oil_spill

Chevron whistle blower Ecuador cover up

Chevron whistle blower Ecuador cover up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l618BhvWkz4&feature=youtu.be

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