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It's rare that a coffee table book is a vehicle for environmental transformation. Renowned photographers Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt have pulled together a stunning, heart-felt, intelligent, reality-facing book about our global water crisis. Blue Planet Run Foundation is offering a free pdf of the book to all educators.

A group of courageous women left their villages to join Blue Planet Run Foundation's Peer Water Exchange at the African Women and Water Conference in Kenya. Together, they discussed the social and health problems created from not having access to safe drinking water and received training for implementing new water projects in their respective villages.

Showering and shaving... these are daily activities for many of us, and they take their toll environmentally. Simran Sethi and Sarah Smarsh take a look at the lifecycle of our morning routines.

Discusses in-detail exactly how much water and money you can save by taking a shorter shower.

The pollution in the Thi Vai river, near Saigon in Vietnam, has reached such a critical level that Japanese ships are now refusing to dock in the port for fear it will corrode their ships' hulls.

Just more evidence of how safely uranium is handled around the world.

Which conserves more water, a shower or a bath? We answer this question, and provide water conservation tips for both.

Our water is running out. This is a very cool presentation that explores humanity's water use and the emerging world water shortage. It's is a very serious problem that is going to affect a lot of people very soon. Check it out and take some action.

We know that most of the desert countries are economically backward countries. Some desert countries make much of revenue by exporting oil but agrarians, cattle rearers and nomads are also seen in those countries. Though it is difficult to do agriculture and animal rearing in deserts, there are possibilities to improve economical and environmental conditions in desert. From Thar desert in east to Sahara desert in west, we can see many zones covered with desert terrains but we can see fertile lands in basins of rivers like Sindh, Tigris and Euphrates.

There is also a trend called sand mining that is dangerous to environment. Excessive mining of sand in river beds spoils rivers and also results the decrease of ground water level. Ponds and lakes store rain water and also inject water in to underground and help in conserving ground water level. Sand mining increases the depth of river beds and more extent of rain water flows into rivers rather than flowing in to ponds and lakes if river bed depth increases. Ponds and lakes dry up and cannot contribute in conserving rain water and level of ground water.

Though deserts are often not suitable for livelihood, there are still some people who live in deserts. They settle near oases and live by agriculture or cattle taming. Some people also live nomadic life by wandering for collecting fruits of desert trees and selling camel’s meat. It is possible to make better living conditions in deserts, definitely in semi-deserts.

How partially used water can be recycled for irrigation or used to flush toilets.

Lost underwater forests may sound like ancient myths, but they are in fact very real places. Some 300 million trees have been completely flooded by hydro dams and still stand perfectly preserved beneath the world’s reservoirs.

The Sawfish is a 7,000 pound unmanned logging submarine that is remotely controlled from the surface...

With a single flush, you put as much water down the drain as an average person in the developing world uses all day.Where does the water piped into our homes go? The average American uses about 100 gallons of water a day...

-Alan B Fabian