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Cookin’ in Hawaii asked:


We have solar water heating, but during off-peak hours, the electric water heater kicks in. ( Two hours in the evening and 1.5 hours in the early morning) The water is 140 degrees. Is this normal? I know the thermostat can be turned down on regular water heaters, but does it need to be this hot because of the solar? Water is scalding hot!

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A guest blog post originally published on the India Water Portal (IWP) by my friend and colleague Praveena Sridhar. She has given me permission to re-publish her beautiful pictures and insightful post about water leakage in India.

As I had been waking up to a leaky tap in my new house for quite some time, I thought it would be interesting to look at the different ways water gets wasted. In this post, I attempt to do a photo blog from my past photo collections on this subject from different parts of the country.

This is an image of a leaking pipe from a tanker used by Municipality to provide water in areas with water shortage in Mulbagal, Karnataka. I took this photo during a project visit to the town few weeks ago.

This is an image of water leaking from a community stand post, again in Mulbagal. Mulbagal is the town where the pilot project for Integrated Urban Water Management is being planned and implemented by Arghyam in partnership with various organizations. I will write more on this project in the next post.

This is an image of water leakage from a municipal bore well. Don’t think, from looking at the operator’s hand, that he has opened the bore. He is actually yet to open it! This is how the pipe is without opening the hose. This photo is again from Mulbagal taken during a water sample collection for water quality testing.

Although all the above images are from Mulbagal, it’s not just in Mulbagal such cases of leaks are found from tankers, stand posts or bore wells. It is a scene which one comes across quite often through the country.

Kolkata, the city of joy, is a wonderful place. It lets everyone with any economic background live well. The above is a photo from Kolkata where such hoses are found all through the city on the main roads. These hoses are left on for two hours in the morning and evening. The purposes of such hoses are to provide water for the people who live on the roads and slums to clean themselves and to meet their domestic needs. It is very noble thought and well appreciated, but the municipality could have given a knob to open and close these taps. Whoever wants to use the water can use it even when there are knobs. What is the need to let such open hoses go for two hours in the morning and evening go on nonstop?

This is a knob of one of the water pipes used to clean the train toilets when the train reaches a particular railway station designated for cleaning. This photo is taken on one such railway station.

This is a photo of a steam engine of the toy train which runs between Metupalayam and Ooty. This belongs to Nilgiris Mountain Railways which is one of the oldest railways in India. This engine is not run on coal but is modified to run Diesel. Diesel produces the steam by boiling the water instead of the coal used in the olden days. This toy train has to be refilled with water at one of the stations in-between Metupalayam and Ooty. This is a photograph of one such refill on the Hillgrove station. A ride on this toy train a pleasurable one, it takes you into the past, gives one a feel of the place during the 1940s. But do we really need to waste water for the pleasure?

It may be a very easy question for me to ask sitting in front of the computer, writing my thoughts. What really needs to be done to reduce such water leaks? How do we address these water losses? It is not an easy answer. The solution is a mix of technology, awareness generation in community, and creation of monitoring systems to check such leaks in systems by the governments.

Note: Next post will be about my visit to Mulbagal and the Integrated Urban Water Management Pilot Project conducted there.

Stay tuned to her posts on the IWP by checking this link for updates.

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La Bóveda Global de Semillas de Svalbard (en inglés Svalbard Global Seed Vault y en noruego Svalbard globale frøkvelv ) está situada cerca de Longyearbyen en el archipiélago noruego de Svalbard. Es el almacén de semillas más grande del mundo, creado para salvaguardar la biodiversidad de las especies de cultivos que sirven como alimento. Se conoce popularmente como “Bóveda del fin del mundo” (en inglés Doomsday Vault). Pueden ver en la imagen que bien podría pasar como una escenografía de El Imperio Contrataca.

Para la conservación de este preciado tesoro se han tomado unas medidas de protección, vigilancia y almacenaje que recuerdan bastante a las de un banco suizo. La boveda es impermeable a la actividad volcánica, los terremotos, la radiación y la crecida del nivel del mar, y en caso de fallo eléctrico, el permafrost (capa de hielo permanentemente congelada) del exterior actuará como refrigerante natural.

Dr. Phil asked:


what are the differences between tank less and a instantaneous water heaters ?

and which one is better ?
which one is more expensive ?
and which one would you recommend to a customer ?

thanks PLUMBER’S !!!!!!!!!!!
i mean conventional storage type water heater. and a tankless

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El lanzamiento del nuevo sistema operativo Windows 7 no sólo ha generado buenas críticas y la muerte del criticado Windows Vista. Además, ha provocado curiosos homenajes.
En Japón, la cadena de comida rápida Burger King, en conjunto con Microsoft, lanzó al mercado una inédita hamburguesa que promete satisfacer el hambre de cualquiera que se atreva a comprarla.

Y es que estamos hablando de un sándwich que posee, nada más y nada menos, que siete hamburguesas, por lo que literalmente los que la consumen quedan con la boca abierta.
Y si hay alguna duda sobre si existen personas capaces de consumir esta hamburguesa múltiple, pues vean el video.

Setuch asked:


I read in an article that it takes two gallons of sea water to make one gallon of fresh water. My question is the left over water or brine is twice as salty as regular sea water. Plants say the dilute before returning it back to the ocean. My question is, dilute it with what? If obtaining fresh water is the goal, are they just taking that fresh water back and mixing it with the brine?

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