je.st
news
Tag: water
Bottled Water in the United Arab Emirates
2014-05-02 02:00:00| Apparel & textile industry market research - from just-style.com
The major trend in bottled water in 2013 was premiumisation, which touched both premiums brands such as Masafi as well as lower-end ones investing in an image upgrade. Companies not only focused on re
Tags: united
water
arab
emirates
Longtime Vegas water czar warns other cities to brace for climate change
2014-05-01 23:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Patricia Mulroy has been called "the water empress of Vegas. For 25 years, she lead the Southern Nevada Water Authority, the agency responsible for keeping the taps running in a desert metropolis that was growing like the fat guy in the Monty Python skit. As I wrote yesterday, she was a force to be reckoned with. Today, Mulroy`s name evokes a mixture of hatred and admiration among her fellow western water managers, environmentalists, and rural residents who have long opposed her proposal to import...
Tags: change
water
cities
vegas
Portland doesn't flush reservoir water after all
2014-05-01 21:22:01| PortlandOnline
Cornelius Swart in KGW News, April 30, 2014
Tags: all
water
portland
reservoir
Canary Island first to be powered by just wind and water
2014-05-01 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The smallest of the Canary Islands will become the first island to be fully powered by wind and water when it opens a new wind farm this summer. Around 10,000 people live on El Hierro, the most southern of the Spanish islands, and when the wind plant is switched on it will take the strong winds that whip of the cliffs and mountains of the volcanic island and power it. The energy harvested at the plant will be used to pump water up to a large reservoir in a volcanic creator 700 metres above sea...
Tags: powered
just
water
island
Monsanto promises more efficient water and nutrient use across 1 million acres
2014-05-01 16:36:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Major food companies and Walmart also made simultaneous sustainability pledges. Monsanto says it will increase its irrigation water-use efficiency by 25% by 2020 in its global seed production operations, saving 30 billion to 80 billion gallons of water annually, says Hugh Grant, Monsanto chairman and chief executive officer. read more
Tags: water
million
efficient
acres
Sites : [968] [969] [970] [971] [972] [973] [974] [975] [976] [977] [978] [979] [980] [981] [982] [983] [984] [985] [986] [987] next »