Recent searches
Search options
#water
"If you find it difficult to think of a #river as alive, try picturing a dying or dead river. This is easier ... Can a forest think? Does a mountain remember? Is a river alive?"
One of my favourite nature writers is Robert Macfarlane. And since I can follow him again on another place, I get his new texts. Here's a great #essay from his coming #book 'Is A River Alive': https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/26/is-this-river-alive-robert-macfarlane-on-the-lives-deaths-and-rights-of-our-rivers
"'No more hiding places' - Polluting water bosses face up to two years in prison under new laws"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Pollution #Water
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/polluting-water-bosses-face-up-to-two-years-in-prisonws/
"One of modernity’s many vanishing tricks is to disappear the provisionality of its own conclusions. We now take it for granted that we take rivers for granted. It is unremarkable that a company registered yesterday is, in the eyes of the law, an entity with legal standing and a suite of rights, including the right to sue – but that a river who has flowed for 10,000 years has no rights at all"
Robert Macfarlane
As you will recall, Private Equity giant KKR (they of Barbarians at the Gate fame), has become the preferred bidder for Thames Water.... and so keen are Thames Water to keep their cash cow out of the hands of the state they are paying a substantial proportion of the costs of the KKR team undertaking some extensive due diligence ahead of any formal bid.
No conflicts of interest there, I'm sure....
#ThamesWater #water #sewage #PrivateEquity
h/t FT
When the day is fading and the light is making everything orange, the wind stops, the air becomes warmer, just for some minutes. Looks like the nature is saluting the approaching night, through a daily, eternal solemn rite.
BODEGA BAY - 48NM NW of San Francisco, CA
It's a cloudy day. It's 54ºF/12ºC.
Station: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46013
Location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=38.235&mlon=-123.317&zoom=2
#sea #ocean #water #webcam
It is possible to produce #food
without #agrotoxics !
#PeasantAgroecology is the way to protect our #health, #soil, #air, #water and #biodiversity !
#StopAgrotoxics #AgrotoxicsKILL #AgroecologyNurturesLIFE
#FoodSovereigntyNOW
@via_campesina
Action shot of the solar-powered fountain in my new bird bath. I'm not sure it's going to generate enough ripple to kill mosquito larvae so I'll likely add Mosquito Dunks every three weeks during the summer. But it makes a pleasing sound and maybe the hummingbirds will fly through it. #birdbath #birds #water #solar #mosquitoes
Open Letter to Environment, Food and Rural Affairs committee – please investigate water use from data centres
Seen at the beaver pond: a small vortexing whirlpool close to a dam. There must be a hole in the dam and water is draining through it.
The sun was in my back and I am mirrored at the top edge of the funnel along with the sky, sun, cloud, and a shrub.
A photo you cannot plan for., and hard to describe.
The 1,400-year-old tradition of Kumiko woodworking demands extraordinary precision—parts must be accurate to within 0.1mm. Japanese craftsmen create almost 200 different patterns using just thin pieces of cedar or cypress wood held together by perfect tension.
The complementary technique of Mageki woodbending involves scoring wood with minute grooves, applying moisture, and carefully shaping curves that hold their form once dry.
Learn more: 
You'll be unsurprised to know that while the Government review of the water & sewage sector has OFWAT in its sights for possible abolition & replacement, the National Audit Office has concluded the the regulators responsible for overseeing the water sector lack a 'good understanding' of the assets & sector they are intended to regulate...
Its a classic example of how corporate capture of regulators leads to 'learned helplessness' then post-privatisation water regulation.
In that other state that refuses to discuss the global-problem-that-shall-not-be-named, legislators find that Mother Nature doesn't care what they don't believe in, and fixing it won't be cheap.
Link: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/expensive-plan-to-save-texas-water/?ICID=ref_fark
