Water Up with a BIBO Water Filter

It’s well known that bottled water is a demon (or favorite punching bag) of the green community. Plastic is filling up our environment and even taking over huge patches of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Additionally, shipping bottled water all across the world is, to say the least, a bit absurd. Unfortunately, while the water coming out of the tap in many places may be fine for drinking, in some places, you’re really better off with cleaner water.

There are different options for ensuring that you’re drinking clean water. One of the most obvious is a water filter and dispenser in your home. BIBO is one such company now offering a water dispenser for home, and its dispenser will heat or cool your water while it’s at it.

I think I first ran across BIBO last year when someone shared a “10 Bottled Water Facts” info graphic (created by the company). The company is only a year old — it was founded in 2011 and started offering its home water dispensers in June 2011 —  and is just a 4-person team right now.

The formation of the company and BIBO’s products seems to have come out of a desire to help the environment. Founder Jonathan Brown was actually a bottled water pioneer in the UK in the late 80s. After some years in that field, however, he realized the environmental damage being done by the industry. So, he went on to develop filtered mains water dispensers for the workplace by forming Connect Water Systems. Reportedly, Connect has helped 200,000 companies move away from bottled water. In 2011, Brown (and a few others) expanded into the home sector with BIBO.

BIBO’s website states: “Bottled water is becoming harder to justify. Not only is it environmentally unsound to ship water hundreds, or thousands, of miles. It’s also well known that polycarbonate bottles can leach chemicals into the water they carry.” Very true.

So, if you’re in the market for a good water filter/dispenser, you might want to check out BIBO’s offerings.

Water scarcity: reality or speech

Porto-Gonçalves in the problem analysis of the lack of water is really very interesting. In this first article we will concentrate only on one of the points that works how real is the concept of the "water scarcity".

Of all I recommend to read the full text of water does not deny to anyone, since it has no waste for whom we are concerned about such issues.

Porto-Gonçalves in the problem analysis of the lack of water is really very interesting. In this first article we will concentrate only on one of the points that works how real is the concept of the "water scarcity".

Of all I recommend to read the full text of water does not deny to anyone, since it has no waste for whom we are concerned about such issues.

Since the beginning the author tells us that there is a "speech of scarcity", and here, using the word "he remarks" marks clearly its position that this is a deliberate message and not a simple and innocent description of reality. And this founded it with figures who come to demonstrate that the situation is not as alarming as it seeks us to show.

As he tells Porto-Gonçalves, information circulating most commonly on the "stock" of drinking water as follows:

Planet Earth has 3/4 parts of water. Of this, 97% are the oceans and seas, which is why this water to salt, is not suitable for human consumption. Then is 3% of fresh water, but 2/3 of it are in solid state because they are ice and polar ice caps, ergo, are not available for human consumption at the end of the equation the result is that less than 1% of the total water on our planet would be safe.

This is the brief outline of the discourse from scarcity. And as brilliantly defines the author, it is "made" so that, in the end, the reader is already thirsty. There warns Porto-Gonçalves that we should not give by scientific any mere statistics because - as he says - there are a number of basic errors from the own scientific point of view in these numbers.

If these numbers are not entirely accurate, is because there are others factors were missing in the equation. And what we need to take into account is mainly that the fresh water on Earth is largely provided by the water cycle. And mostly as a result of evaporation from the oceans and seas.

Let's look at some data provides in this regard:

Approximately 505.000 Km3 evaporates each year of the oceans and seas (this is equivalent to a layer 1.4 metres thick on the surface of seas and oceans). Although these sources of water salt, salt is not transmitted in evaporation. Of these 505.000 Km3 80% returns to precipitate on the oceans and seas, but the remaining 20% drop over the continental surface. And the rains that fall on all continents, about 3/4 parts evaporate from lakes, ponds, rivers, soil and plants (evapotranspiration). It is 1/4 remaining drain to the sea again.

This cycle and these levels remain valid according to evidence from the last ice age. In other words, the amount of water available has not changed significant since at least 12,000 to 18,000 years ago.

Moreover, the amount of water available not only not declined but may even be increasing as a result of the melting of the polar ice caps and glaciers due to global warming. Although it sounds like a paradoja…

The question then seems to be that drinking water is not scarce at the global level. And however, according to UN reports nearly 3 billion people have no access to it. That leaves us thinking that the question to ask is not "does there is enough water for all?", but "who controls her?, and what uses it?".

Audi Testing Water in Electric Car Production

The entrepreneurial Audi is planning to take advantage of changes portended in the automobile market with an eye towards emission-free vehicles. Until now Audi has not shown any interest in electric car production but now that there is a growing demand for small and electronically-driven cars, Audi is keen to join the race.

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Others in the foray:
Rival manufactures like BMW with Megacity electric vehicle and Daimler with Smart ED have already taken the leap with cute little electric cars on their way to produce vehicles with zero carbon emission. Now Audi is joining the arena and the world is keenly interested to see what kind of a car will be Audi’s gift to the automobile world.

Supermini:
A supermini is reportedly the car on the anvil as per a report by What Car? Audi CEO, Rupert Stadler says,”…so we are planning for a changing market when customers will be ready.” Audi is already busy on the electric sports car planned with a limited number release by 2012, to be marketed under the E-tron name.

Audi Zero?
The plan is on for a mass-market electric car – supermini – is very much ongoing as confirmed by CEO Stadler in Munich at the launch of Audi 7 Sportback. Audi’s electric car can either be something similar to A1 e-tron Concept or a smaller platform named ‘Audi Zero’. Audi will not do any spin-off versions like Skoda or Seat had done.

Future plans:
Audi is working on the basis that in about 3-5 years time, market will be ready for such electric cars and that will be the time when these cars will also be viable. In Stadler’s words, “What we then need are customers willing to pay a premium these vehicles demand… We are a technical company planning technical solutions, but we are also entrepreneurial, so we are planning for a changing market… in 10 years time I see a point where we have clean energy too. Then the situation will be perfect.”

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Pollution water Spain

Following the posts related to pollution in Spain, I decided to comment on the contamination of water in Spain. I take also to remind, that in previous posts we've talked about light in Spain pollution, noise pollution in Spain and air pollution in Spain.

Water pollution or water, is mainly in the action or the effect of introducing some material or induce conditions on water involving, directly or indirectly, as a harmful alteration of its quality in relation to their subsequent uses or their environmental services.The sea is often receive a large amount of waste a year. But in recent years, is has been noticing as they were filled our waters from pollutants, resulting products all of our consumer society. A society ever more sick burn spotlight is where littering. Sites like the sea, that sooner or later we will make pay the consequences. Spain pollution is concentrated mainly on the coast. Being surrounded by water and thanks to tourism, our country is able to withstand tons of rubbish in their costs.Fisiosanitaria pollution is very important that affects seriously our countries very important to know that this type of pollution is also much in the agricultural sector mainly due to the used pesticides which are entered in the land and seep into the water.

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Energy savings and Home: water

With this article, I have dared to give a series of tips related to the energy consumption at home and natural resources. We dividiremos into two parts, which are two of the resources you figures you can bequeath to consume a House.

The first one, and we will try in this first article is water.It water is a natural resource essential for all known life forms, human beings are made up of 80% of water. This substance covers 71% of the surface of the Earth's crust. It is mainly located in the oceans which concentrates 96.5% of the total water, glaciers and polar ice caps have 1.74%.However, in recent years we have account that water is a good little. I enter all can contribute to that not is he squandered, as taking a series of habits can save a lot of water.There are devices that lower water spending in fitting: Paralizadores: they enroscan in I knob and cost about 16 or 20 euros.

Fittings single: replaced two controllers to have easier control over volume and the temperature of the water.Thermostatic cartridges: They inserted into the tap to avoid the complete change of the fitting and allow to reach the desired water temperature without having the tap open for a long time.Other devices include are: showers ahorradoras and other devices to reduce spending tanks.Apart from trying to transform some supplies or reduce the flow of water, also remains the choice usually very recommended to close the taps when they are not using (brushing teeth, washing hands, etc...)

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