Prompted in part by Annie Leonard's new video "The Story of Bottled Water," the International Bottled Water Association released a video of their...
If you're looking for a way to better understand your water use/shame yourself into using less, check out this Waterpebble device:
The device...
This is one of eight sets of questions to consider when envisioning a city that can win the climate fight. Read the introduction, and take a...
As we become more and more aware that we may be using water at an unsustainable pace, the idea of water footprints-the amount of water an...
2A: Lose the Lawn, Water Hogs
Potential water savings: up to 150 gallons per day, per household.
There are much better ways to decorate or...
In the GOOD 100 Issue we covered the "Cash for Grass" programs that have been sprouting up in some western cities. They offer homeowners cash...
Situated between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea was once the world's fourth largest freshwater lake. It is now 10 percent of its former...
As you can see from this video (after the jump), some 21,000 women gathered today in Kolakkudipatti village, India, to commemorate World Water...
In its heyday, London's Hornsey Baths (pictured), served some 120 daily visitors. That, however, was more than half a century ago; over time,...
Get Off the Grass
The lush green lawn has long been a symbol of the American suburban ideal. But water resources are stretched thin these days,...
A few weeks ago we issued a call for designs for the GOOD Earth Day Klean Kanteen bottle. We were flooded with amazing submissions. In the end we...
Britain announced today its creation of the world's largest marine reserve, a move that will protect the Indian Ocean's Chagos Islands and the...
From the people who brought you "The Story of Stuff" comes "The Story of Bottled Water." Have a look at the preview after the jump.
Looks...
It looks like Los Angeles may soon require that people capture rainwater and do something responsible with it, rather than letting it go to waste.
The activist, author, and lawyer Arvind Narrain weighs in on his country's recent de-criminalization of homosexuality.
The news made headlines...
Not sure if you've been following the news about the recent uptick in Maoist violence in India, where the rebels are still vying for communist...
Yesterday was, of course, April Fool's Day. But, all jokes aside, it was also a big day in India: April 1, 2010 was the day the country's Right of...
Art takes many forms, but often, the media remain the same. Not so in Chandigarh, India, where an unlikely artist, 82-year-old Nek Chand, uses the...
The Indian village of Vrindavan is believed by many Hindus to be the physical manifestation of ‘heaven' as well as the place in which the...
We've been hearing a lot about these Zero Rupee Notes, which Indian citizens have been handing to corrupt officials who demand bribes. They were...
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Robert A. Di Ieso, Jr.
A recent study found that drinking water in India contained enough antibiotics to treat every person in a city of 90,000, due to waste water from pharmaceutical manufacturing plants. Here in the United States, things aren't nearly so bad, but our water system is still filled with trace amounts of the drugs and chemicals we put in our bodies. Click here to see our transparency on exactly what drugs you're taking each time you turn on the tap. 
