With commentary from WasteWater Education 501(c)3 Board Member Catherine Flowers
Category Archives: Education
February 19, 2015 at 2pm ET: Basic Introduction to wastewater treatment and microbiology
Register Here for this complimentary distance learning class.
WasteWater Education welcomes John Jackson as Guest Author
World Environmental Health Day – 6 session seminar September 26, 2014
Every Body Deserves A Decent Throne:
Crossing the Sanitation Divide – Past, Present and Future.
Six session seminar series provided at no charge through Google Hangouts On Air.
Session 1. 10- 10.45 am ET
https://plus.google.com/events/c5a8pagbtudisb61rk20uf4523k
Dendra Best will look at the history of sanitation in the US and how that has shaped the technology of infrastructure ever since.
Session 2. 11 – 11.45 am ET https://plus.google.com/events/c2j07kdvnstis05ijsmkidjhip0
Patrick Lucey – why traditional infrastructure is now unsustainable. His bio can be found at the aqua-tex.ca web site.
See: http://aqua-tex.ca/index.php?id=2&press=1&draw_column=1:1:2
Session 3. 11.50 am ET – 12.40 pm ET
https://plus.google.com/events/cbp6bl8rf77e3kmgbufender4ak
Patrick Lucey – successful case studies of sustainable integrated water systems from Canada and the US.
Break for Lunch
Session 4. 1.30 – 2.30 pm ET
https://plus.google.com/events/cpb2ea4j9o2cqn3500jirsqukso
The reality of Sierra Leone and Guinea – Derek Reinhard and the work of DeeperMissions.org
The theme for Environmental Health Day 2014 is inequality of access. Not only does DeeperMissions work in one of the poorest regions in west Africa, it now has to deal with the massive Ebola epidemic
Session 5. 2.40pm ET – 3.20pm ET
https://plus.google.com/events/c1s6h0ajh5obbe4kgsom5oq70i8
Patrick Lucey. A better future: how to export 21st. century knowledge not 19th century thinking.
If the problem is massive, is this the time to rethink how we provide basic sanitation and clean drinking water systems both here in the West and in developing countries? The environmental, weather and financial climate is a whole new ball game from when most of these technologies were the norm. What kind of legacy are we creating for our children or grandchildren if we keep on doing the same thing?
Session 6. 3.45pm ET – 4.30pm ET
https://plus.google.com/events/c9al5e9p3j3n5mmabovd78diksg
CollaborativeWaterSolutions.com Team – relevance to both small rural communities in CA and the US as well as Haiti, Africa and S. America.
Culture, demographics, access to support structures and expertise – all play a vital role in ensuring whatever is proposed as the ‘ideal’ solution will actually be feasible AND workable in the long run. So often planning is something that is done TO a community not WITH it.
Collaborative Water Solutions was created to build on the stellar work done by Water Environment Research Foundation where a team developed the Small Community Decision Making Tool to help local leaders determine their own best options for wastewater service.
“Black Tie Septic Selfie” for SepticSmart week!
We constantly hear the negative stories about septic service providers but all professions have their bad apples? The vast majority of onsite service providers and decentralized industry people are decent hard working and take their environmental and public health ethic seriously. They are also small business owners who go out of their way to support their communities. I have yet to meet one who hasn’t at some time provided a repair or pump out from their own pocket because they know the property owner is going through tough times.
As it’s SepticSmart Week in September we thought this would be a great opportunity to not just educate the public, and their elected officials, about the profession and technologies, but also about the people who work in it and for it!
As Eric Casey of NOWRA says: “I totally agree. People that work in this business are the backbone of what makes our country so strong. They’ve built businesses, care about what they do, contribute to the community and, if they are a service provider, rarely get to celebrate holidays because they are always out helping their neighbors who don’t seem to understand that their large family gathering is going to overtax their septic system.. I very much support what you are trying to do and will keep out an eye for what you develop.”
September 22-26, 2104 is EPA’s SepticSmart Week. Not only is this an opportunity to learn more about the role of onsite wastewater as a public and environmental health infrastructure service, but it’s also an opportunity to see how educated, community spirited and conscientious service providers are! This idea to combine charitable giving with good maintenance visits came from a Michigan hauler. We encourage you to ‘get your black tie on’ and dress up smart for SepticSmartWeek!
Then email, Tweet, LinkedIn Post, Pinterest, Facebook your
‘Black Tie Septic Service Run Selfie’
to us and we will spread the word about your classy commitment to excellence! Plus we’ll post it here too as a slideshow!
August 15, 2014 is World Portable Sanitation Day | On Site Companies. Providing Portable Toilet, Sanitation, Heating, Cooling and Security Needs
Watch the inspiring stories of three mothers who broke the cycle of poverty, and forged a path to water
The dignity and strength of women around the world is astounding – in celebration of Mother’s Day, watch the inspiring stories of three mothers who broke the cycle of poverty, and forged a path to water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkStObhWjnI
Do something about this at http://water.org/post-v/honoring-mothers-around-world/
NASA’s Aquarius Returns Global Maps of Soil Moisture | The Water Network | by TallyFox
NASA’s Aquarius Returns Global Maps of Soil Moisture | The Water Network | by TallyFox.
via NASA’s Aquarius Returns Global Maps of Soil Moisture | The Water Network | by TallyFox.
Scientists working with data from NASA’s Aquarius instrument have released worldwide maps of soil moisture, showing how the wetness of the land fluctuates with the seasons and weather phenomena.
Soil moisture, the water contained within soil particles, is an important player in Earth’s water cycle. It is essential for plant life and influences weather and climate. Satellite readings of soil moisture will help scientists better understand the climate system and have potential for a wide range of applications, from advancing climate models, weather forecasts, drought monitoring and flood prediction to informing water management decisions and aiding in predictions of agricultural productivity.
Launched June 10, 2011, aboard the Argentinian spacecraft Aquarius/Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas (SAC)-D, Aquarius was built to study the salt content of ocean surface waters. The new soil wetness measurements were not in the mission’s primary science objectives, but a NASA-funded team led by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers has developed a method to retrieve soil moisture data from the instrument’s microwave radiometer.
The Aquarius measurements are considerably coarser in spatial resolution than the measurements from the upcoming NASASoil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, which was specifically designed to provide the highest quality soil moisture measurements available, including a spatial resolution 10 times that offered by Aquarius.
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