Tag: water
What Happens When The Seas Gasp For Air?
MayorBob.
Posted to SciTech on Mon Feb 18, 2008 at 07:21:31 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Large areas of the seas and oceans of the world are approaching a "tipping point" in the ability to support animal life. Within the past few years, low levels of oxygen have been reported in areas which used to teem with marine life. Now, when marine biologists take a dive to assess life at the bottom of the sea, sometimes right off continental coastlines, what they find are gigantic dead zones filled with dead animals which couldn't escape their habitats or areas bereft of fishes which could.
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We Have A Hole In The City Budget -- Let's Plug It With Water.
MayorBob.
Posted to Politics on Wed Aug 15, 2007 at 09:20:25 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
When you're working out in a gym, jogging around outside, or just need to wet your whistle at work, there's nothing like a nice, cool drink of water. Water - it's healthy, refreshing and thanks to the bottled water industry it can be there no matter what you're doing. But that healthy, refreshing and available bottle of water is about to have war declared on it by a Chicago politician. Because, "there's a cost associated with this behavior" Chicago Alderman George Cardenas is ready to apply that cost to each bottle of water sold in the Windy City. Cardenas' notion of what is right and fair regarding bottled water have a lot of people thinking he's all wet.
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