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Rethinking fire hydrants
Rethinking fire hydrants

“[Fire hydrants ]represent an already abundant infrastructure of distribution and the potential for citywide public access to drinking water.”

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Water Sources, Water QualityPaula HensonJanuary 11, 2019urban
Wastewater...what's in it?
Wastewater...what's in it?

99 percent of wastewater is just dirty water…

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Water QualityPaula HensonJanuary 8, 2019
Tunneling for water...
Tunneling for water...

To keep a city from flooding…

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Storm WaterPaula HensonJanuary 6, 2019flooding
Less hydropower=more carbon dioxide
Less hydropower=more carbon dioxide

Bad news from Stanford study…

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Climate Change, Water UsePaula HensonDecember 30, 2018energy, Carbon
"Someone's going to have to use less water." Eric Kuhn, former general manager of the Colorado River District
"Someone's going to have to use less water." Eric Kuhn, former general manager of the Colorado River District

Oh, if only it were that simple!

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Water Sources, Water UsePaula HensonDecember 30, 2018drought
Oil and Water?
Oil and Water?

In the oil refinery industry water use can be as little as none and as much as 2.5 gallons of water per gallon of product.

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Water UsePaula HensonDecember 11, 2018industrial
Who is Marie Tharp?
Who is Marie Tharp?

Although dismissed as “girl talk”, her discoveries were important.

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Paula HensonDecember 6, 2018
How much?
How much?

52.8 trillion gallons

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Water UsePaula HensonNovember 19, 2018cooling
Terra Bella Books!
Terra Bella Books!

New! Terra Bella Books!

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Children's BooksPaula HensonNovember 5, 2018
Trees and Water
Trees and Water

“. . .each tree releasing tens of thousands of gallons of water. . .”

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Paula HensonOctober 31, 2018Trees
London's new drinking fountains
London's new drinking fountains

“Lots of people around who might be wanting to not buy a single-use plastic bottle but would rather have a drinking water fountain” (Dep. Mayor, London)

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Fountains, Water QualityPaula HensonOctober 11, 2018
Day Without Water
Day Without Water
Paula HensonOctober 10, 2018
Cleaning urban storm water
Cleaning urban storm water

Making headway on solutions to scrub pollutants from urban storm water before putting it into underground reservoirs

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Storm WaterPaula HensonOctober 7, 2018contamination
Some large scale water user stats
Some large scale water user stats

How much water does the NHL use?

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Water UsePaula HensonOctober 3, 2018gallons per...
Wasting Wastewater
Wasting Wastewater

Wasting Wasterwater

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Water SourcesPaula HensonOctober 1, 2018water recycling
Happy New Water Year!
Happy New Water Year!

A water “year” is measured Oct. 1 to Oct. 1

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Paula HensonOctober 1, 2018
More bad news for fire prone areas
More bad news for fire prone areas

Firefighting foam at elevated levels…can increase cancer risk…

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Water QualityPaula HensonSeptember 28, 2018contamination
Is it an ocean or a sea?
Is it an ocean or a sea?

There is a linguistic difference between the ocean and sea.

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Bodies of WaterPaula HensonSeptember 23, 2018ocean
The World Water Crisis
The World Water Crisis

Cape Town, London, Sao Paulo, Jakarta, Istanbul, Tokyo, and Mexico City could be facing “Day Zero” — meaning they will run out of water — in the next few decades unless their water use radically changes.

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Water SourcesPaula HensonSeptember 14, 2018water supply
Idioms to Describe Heavy Rain
Idioms to Describe Heavy Rain

Idioms to describe heavy rain…

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WeatherPaula HensonSeptember 13, 2018Rain
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