Improved Cooling Tower Design Could Save Billions of Gallons of Water Per Year
The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that commercial, residential and industrial buildings use approximately 47 billion gallons of water each day. And the EPA found that a typical office building uses more than 25 percent of its water supply for cooling towers.
In most large commercial and industrial buildings, tens of thousands of gallons of water flow through a big apparatus called a cooling tower (about the size of a two-car garage, they’re usually on the roof), where it evaporates out the top.
AT&T, whose facilities used 3.5 billion gallons of water in 2010, calculates that improving operations in the cooling towers at its largest facilities could save millions of gallons of water per year. Adopted on a broad scale, these solutions could save billions of gallons of water annually.
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Arsenic
- Bangladeshis Sipping Arsenic as Plan for Safe Water Stalls
- Should You Be Worried About Arsenic in Your Water?
- Arsenic in Water
Chloramine
- Chloramines and Fish
- Things You Should Know About Chlorine, and Chloramines
- Water Filter Carbon: What It Does and What It Doesn’t. Water Treatment 101
- Chloramines in Drinking Water
Chromium
- “Most of the time no one is watching most of the water for most of the contaminants.”
- Probable carcinogen hexavalent chromium found in drinking water of 31 U.S. cities
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May 2012
- AT&T Plans Massive Water Savings with New Building Designs –May 16, 2012
- Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates
- Basements and Underground Utilities Predicted to Be At Risk as Global Warming Advances — May 15, 2012
- Please, Please, Don’t Buy Me Another Tie: I’m Fed Up with Hole-to-Hole Economics
- The Man Who Cried, « The Empress is Naked ! ». Hans Ruesch, Gazette Hero Award Recipient
April 2012
- Top Water Story: April 30, 2012
- AIDS CASES TO DOUBLE (With the Deft Stroke of a Bureaucrat’s Pen)
- War and Disease
- A World Awash In Hormones: The HRT Scandal
- US water ranked 12th in worldwide water quality report
March 2012
- How Much Weed Killer Is Save in Your Water Glass
- The 4th of July
- Beware of Mom
- Dick Cheney Aux Enfers
- Drink More Coke
February 2012
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"AIDS"
- The Pure Water Gazette Gives Its Coveted Hero Award to Thabo Mbeki
- B.B.’ Sharper’s Special “AIDS” Report
- AIDS CASES TO DOUBLE (With the Deft Stroke of a Bureaucrat’s Pen)
- War and Disease
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B. Bea Sharper
- Things You Should Know About Chlorine, and Chloramines
- B. Bea Sharper on Lawn Care
- B. B. Sharper’s Fourth Series
- B. Bee Sharper on Dogs, the Enemies of Clean Water
- B. Bee Sharper’s Second Series of Random Number Wisdom
Gene Franks
- Water and Trees
- Air and Water Filter Carbon
- Getting A Perspective on Water Use
- Primate Penis Measuring Project Defended
- The Ceiling is Up and the Floor is Down.
Hardly Waite
- Please, Please, Don’t Buy Me Another Tie: I’m Fed Up with Hole-to-Hole Economics
- What Kind of Water Makes the Best Tasting Coffee?
- Ranking of Nations According to Water Security
- “Most of the time no one is watching most of the water for most of the contaminants.”
- Who Really Invented the Water Softener?
Pure Water Annie
- What You Should Know About Benzene
- Things You Should Know About Chlorine, and Chloramines
- Glossary of Common Water Treatment Abbreviations
Tiger Tom
Drugs
- New Information Supports Hormesis and Challenges the Ways that Regulators Determine Risks
- Pink Ribbons and Disinformation: The Truth about Breast Cancer and Mammograpy
- Thanks for the Memory. Experiments Confirm Benveniste’s “Heretical” Research.
- Drugs in Water. Where They Come From.
- BIRTH CONTROL–THE NATURAL WAY
Health and Medicine
- How Vaccinations Work (With Information You Probably Won’t Get From Your Doctor)
- Why Hospitals Overcharge the Uninsured
- New Information Supports Hormesis and Challenges the Ways that Regulators Determine Risks
- Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US, Causing 250,000 Deaths Every Year
- Pink Ribbons and Disinformation: The Truth about Breast Cancer and Mammograpy
Today's Top Water Story
- AT&T Plans Massive Water Savings with New Building Designs –May 16, 2012
- Basements and Underground Utilities Predicted to Be At Risk as Global Warming Advances — May 15, 2012
- New Mexico County Is Pumping Its Aquifer Dry
- Fracking Could Mean Big Bucks for Water Treatment Industry–May 13, 2012
- Dead Water Birds Collect on Beaches In Chile and Peru–May 12, 2012
