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- The Columbia River Treaty: On Track. How About A Columbia River Compact?
- Dead Swine-Gate: Anatomy of a Chinese Scandal
- Why Federal Efforts to Ensure Clean Tap Water Fail to Reach Faucets Nationwide
- Cooling-Tower Controversy Heats Up at Power Plants, Refinery
- Wasted Opportunity
- Kroger Uses Food Waste to Power California Distribution Center
- Hospitals Say ’’No’’ to Meat Raised with Antibiotics
- US To Introduce Stricter Rules on Meat Imports, Labels
- Mercury in Seafood Diet Linked to Fox Die-Off
- Solar Bill Stalls in Texas Senate After Power Industry Opposition
- Landlords Double as Energy Brokers
- Solar Powered Highways - The Roads of the Future?
- Losing Water: Water Shortages Are a Major Problem for Future Energy Projects
- Some of My Best Friends Are Germs
- Mysterious Poop Foam Causes Explosions on Hog Farms
Quick Facts
- One dairy farm with 2,500 cows produces as much waste as a city with around 411,000 residents, but dairy waste goes untreated.
- Cooling water discharged from a coal or nuclear plant is hotter--by an average of 17°F in summer--than when it entered the plant.
- On average, one apple has a water footprint of 33 gallons.
- Households directly use the most water indoors in the morning (5am to 11am) because of showering and prepping for the day ahead.
- 26 percent of energy used in homes is for lighting and other appliances
- In the last 40 years, nearly one-third of the world's arable (farmable) land has been lost due to poor land management.
- About 50 million Americans get sick from unsafe food each year, resulting in over 100,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths.
- About 40 calories of fossil fuel energy go into every calorie of feed lot beef in the US. One more reason to go Meatless Monday!
- Creating a gallon of ethanol consumes about 100 gallons of freshwater. In some regions, ethanol production can take three or more times that amount.
- It takes 660 gallons of water to produce one hamburger.
- A single margherita pizza requires 333 gallons of water, enough to fill almost ten bathtubs!
- A frack job used 4.5 million gallons, of which a amount approximately 10 to 40 percent flows back to the surface as toxic water.
- Nitric oxides are released from farms in large quantities due to manure application and are among the leading causes of acid rain.
- In 2010, 14.5 percent of American households and 20 percent of households with children were food insecure at some point.
- Nearly 70% of swine confinement workers suffer from a respiratory illness or irritation. 58% of workers suffer chronic bronchitis.
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