Posted on December 28, 2007 by Jared Simpson
The Earth’s Most Precious Resource May Be the 21st Century’s Most Lucrative Investment!
Here’s How To Profit from the Coming Fresh Water Shortage!
What really ticks off the admittedly self-righteous and sometimes easily-provoked Waterblogged.info editorial staff? People like Jeff Siegal, managing editor of the Green Chip Review newsletter, and author of the giddy opening sentences.
Siegal’s newsletter–absolutely FREE [...]
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Posted on December 24, 2007 by Jared Simpson
Welcome to Waterblogged.info’s gala holiday special, the really special thing being that we posted at all. Let’s just call our editorial team’s failure to post anything for over a week an intentional and carefully planned holiday hiatus and leave it at that.
And speaking of intention, let’s also point out that we mindfully wrote ten [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2007 by Jared Simpson
The Waterblogged.info team sat in stunned and uncharacteristic silence as our obviously exasperated editorial director went over our performance evaluation, point by point, explaining why we not only failed to get the overall Exceeds Expectations rating that we fully anticipated–leading to a raise and water-cooler bragging rights–but instead got spanked with an unexpected and embarrassing [...]
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Posted on September 24, 2007 by Jared Simpson
In a recent post, Ten water-related reasons to leave California, Waterblogged.info shamelessly hung out some of its dirty laundry. We revealed the somewhat bitter rift between our editorial board and the people who actually do the work around here. This blog is nuts, they harp. What’s the point of all of this aimless groaning and [...]
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Posted on September 7, 2007 by Jared Simpson
Waterblogged.info recently discussed the Watercone®, a new product out of Germany—essentially a low-tech personal solar desalination unit that its creators see as a partial solution to the lack of potable water in many parts of the globe. The mini-still condenses freshwater evaporated by the sun from saltwater, sort of like a mini-water cycle. (The link [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2007 by Jared Simpson
Introductory articles about desalination invariably point out that simple schemes for desalting seawater have been practiced since very ancient times—sometimes to get at the salt rather than water. For example, Waterblogged.info’s crack researchers have lost count of the number of times they’ve read that Aristotle wrote about a basic distillation process for separating salt and [...]
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Posted on August 26, 2007 by Jared Simpson
Of course not, but everyone—including the stridently gloomy and pessimistic Waterblogged.info—would like it to be true. An unlimited supply of water delivered to us just in the nick of time by heroic hydrologists is an appealing and comforting concept. The problem is that too many in the world see desal as a panacea that renders [...]
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Posted on August 14, 2007 by Jared Simpson
Of course not. And the German company that makes it doesn’t claim that. (Waterblogged.info is experimenting with different kinds of headlines in hopes that it will attract a little attention and feel motivated to struggle on. This time we’re going for a straw-man approach—sarcastically dismissing claims that weren’t made with an authoritative air based [...]
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