The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approximates that toilet flushing accounts for 30 percent of household water use. Unfortunately, the flush toilet is responsible for the most wasted water in homes as well. Updating bathroom fixtures and installing more efficient toilets could save water and money spent on costly water bills. The EPA partnership program with WaterSense [...]

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California’s water needs surpass its supply. In an effort to reduce increasing demands on limited drinking supplies and to prevent polluted storm water from flowing into the ocean, California Assemblyman Jose Solorio recently proposed AB 275, also known as the Rainwater Capture Act of 2011. “It’s time we start thinking about what we can individually do [...]

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The debate on private funding for water infrastructure continues in the following interview with Jason Mumm, President of StepWise Utility Advisors, a wastewater and utility consultant firm. Mumm contacted WaterWideWeb after the article Private Investments in H20 Infrastructure was published on 02 February 2011. In the aforementioned article, Erika Berlinghof, Director of Government Relations of the [...]

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 The central government of the People’s Republic of China has already spent 4 billion yuan for grain production and rural water conservation projects as a result of water shortages in the country. Since September of last year, China has received only 15 percent of the annual rainfall.  The central government plans to spend an additional 2.2 billion [...]

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Fatalities from Brazil’s floods reached 665 today. But the number of defenseless victims of the flood has yet to be quantified. These victims are children who will be exploited for commercial sex trafficking and exploitation. Carol Smolenski, Executive Director of ECPAT USA told WaterWideWeb, “Natural disasters contribute to human trafficking, especially of children.” Brazil was already notorious for [...]

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