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Water
on this page: headlines related: ocean, river, world water day, world water flickrgroup: [|World Water!] slideshare: [|world water] (9,000+ views) editing: [|Water Guide]

Rain Shadow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_shadow

Also see: Olympic Rain Shadow (bc, washington)

Events
[|#WorldWetlandsDay] Vegas: http://planeta.com/vegas-wetlands
 * February 2** World Wetlands Day

[|Preservar la biodiversidad tarea de todos]

⚡️ “World Wetlands Day in Wetlands Park” https://twitter.com/i/moments/827308900894470144

http://planeta.com/world-water-day
 * March 22** World Water Day


 * June 8** World Oceans Day

[|programme] [|stockholmstatement] [|siwi-videohub.creo.tv] hashtag: [|#wwweek] [|@un_water] https://facebook.com/UnitedNationsWater
 * August 28-September 2** [|World Water Week]


 * Last Sunday in September** is [|World Rivers Day]

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Headlines
http://www.popsci.com/whats-in-glass-water [] [|Green is the new black — how NGOs can use social media to spark change] - [|@IUCN_Water] [|Las Vegas Isn’t the Water Spendthrift You Think It Is] - [|@AuthenticVegas] [|From Toilet To Tap: City Officials Say Get Used To Drinking Recycled Water] [|How much water is there on, in, and above the Earth?]

Water is Life = Tó éí ííńá át’é @TwinArrowsAZ @NativeInnovate @nihizaad
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wiki
flood ocean surfing swim world water

places
ohrid skadar gbrmp xochimilco

rss

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Slideshare
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Buzzword Bingo
agriculture - aquarium - agua - biodiversity - catchment - coral reefs - desalination - drink - drinking fountain - drought - embedded water - estuary - evaporation - fish - flood - [|fresh water] - [|Golden Gumboot] - groundwater - hydration - ice - irrigation - lake - oasis - ocean - petrichor - rain - river - salt water - snow - surfing - swim - wastewater - **water -** wetlands

An estuary is a bay where the salt water of a sea mixes with the fresh water of rivers.

FYI: The word ‘petrichor’, which describes the distinct smell of rain, was invented by CSIRO researchers Isabel Joy Bear and Richard Grenfell Thomas

Meniscus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meniscus_(liquid) https://water.usgs.gov/edu/meniscus.html

===Essay: Water Conservation and the Social Web (Response to [|Green is the new black — how NGOs can use social media to spark change] - [|@IUCN_Water])===

Social media is now a social web of potential interaction, awareness raising and most importantly action. As we collaborate we find new ways to braid the streams into a river of knowledge. Once groups and environmental leaders view the audience as partners, we can make great strides. Once meetings are livestreamed, mainstreaming these topics can advance.

What would I suggest? How about a Google+ hangout in which those working on water conservation could provide a brief show-and-tell of how they are using social media to connect? We will be happy to document the best practices and if you'd like, host such a conversation.

Essay: Embedded water the hidden menace or hidden opportunity?
We are all probably aware that running the tap while brushing our teeth or taking baths instead of short showers wastes water. What most of us aren't aware of is our hidden water footprint. In the United Kingdom for example each resident on average consumes 150 litres of water a day, but when embedded water is included that figure rises to 3400 litres per day. Water is considered to be a local issue and in many ways it is, but buying almonds can affect the water in California's Central Valley is where 80% of the world's almonds are harvested. In many cases localities all over the world affect the water supply in other parts of the world through their consumption of food and goods. Food consumes vast amounts of fresh water in its production, but just buying a new set of clothes for a vacation can outweigh any water savings made in the eco-lodge by a factor of a hundred. The [|2009 Global Innovation Outlook Report on Water] provides some interesting insights into the volume of water required to produce various goods, including: [] The good news is that small changes in consumption patterns can lead to dramatic reductions in water consumption. media type="youtube" key="0ENOvYdm4hc" width="420" height="315"
 * 70 litres of water to make one apple
 * 140 litres of water to make one cup of coffee
 * 1,300 litres of water to make one kilogram of wheat
 * 10,855 litres of water to make one pair of jeans

Flickr
[|Water] [|unworldwaterday] [|Stockholm International Water Institute]

Flickr Groups
[|World Water]

Facebook
[|UN-Water World Water Day] []

Google+
[|Whole World Water]

Twitter
[|@UN_Water] [|@siwi_water] [|@SouthernWater] [|@RivercityForum] [|@EPAwater] [|@wholeworldwater] [|@AdamMFreed] [|@Cantoalagua] [|@ThreeRiversFest] [|@JohnTanzer_WWF] [|@FW_Conservation] [|@MBLHistory] [|@GreatBasinWater] [|@SNWA_H2] [|@flintwaterstudy]

[|@IUCN_Water]

[|@ohridsos] [|@goceantrust] [|@SaveSkadarLake]

Embedded Tweets
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Wikipedia
[|Rainwater_harvesting] [|List_of_rivers_by_age] [|Microburst]

Recommended Listening
[|Water - In Our Time]

Artwork / Cue Yourself
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Games
[|Catchment Detox] - Play Catchment Detox to see if you successfully manage a river catchment and create a sustainable and thriving economy. You decide what activities you undertake - whether to plant crops, log forests, build factories or set up national parks. The aim is to avoid environmental problems and provide food and wealth for the population.

Water and Tourism
[|International Tourism Partnership] - [|ITP Water Risk Assessment] (PDF)

Editing ...
[|Water Guide]

Spotlight on the Marine Biological Laboratory

History of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA told through historical documents, photographs, video and audio from the MBL's digital archives. http://history.archives.mbl.edu https://twitter.com/MBLHistory

Translating: Water
Spanish: agua Maori: [|wai] Afrikaans: Water (pronounced Vaah-terr)

Translating: Seaweed
Spanish: algas marinas

Zulu: Manzi Xhosa: Amanzi
 * I'd like a glass of water please: Ek wil aseblief ‘n glas water hê.
 * Afrikaans is one of South Africa’s 11 official language. Afrikaans speakers are traditionally descendants of the Dutch colonists and French Huguenots, and of intermarriage between European and indigenous people.
 * I'd like a glass of water: Ngicela ingilazi yamanzi
 * Zulu is also one of South Africa’s official languages. Most Zulu speakers traditionally lived in the KwaZulu-Natal Province.
 * I'd like a glass of water: Ngicela iglasi yamanzi
 * Xhosa is also one of South Africa’s official language. The Xh is pronounced as a click between the teeth and the sides of the tongue. Xhosa speakers traditionally lived in the Western and Eastern Cape Provinces.

Diving
[|Professional Association of Diving Instructors] http://www.greentraveller.co.uk/node/780

Reefs
The Mesoamerican Reef Ecoregion contains the largest coral reef system in the Atlantic Ocean. It extends more than 400 miles from the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula southward to Belize, Guatemala, and the Bay Islands, off the Honduran coast (see map below). Well over a million local people benefit directly from the Reef resources for their livelihood. [|PROGRAM AREAS - Conservation of the Mesoamerican Reef] [|Overview] | [|Program Objectives] | [|Healthy Reefs] [|Stories of the Reef,the update from the Conservation of the Mesoamerican Reef Program][|(PDF 6MB)]

[|Download PDF English (1.3MB) >>] [|Download PDF in Spanish (1.3MB)>>]
 * Building Synergies in the Mesoamerican Reef Region**

Elsewhere on the Web
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org - [|@foodandwater] [|Agua Portal Interactivo] [|Water Web] [|World Bank Water Supply and Sanitation] [|Water UK] Stockholm International Water Institute - [|Facebook] [|Twitter] [|Youtube] [|Flickr] [|Water]

UN
https://twitter.com/UN_Water https://www.facebook.com/UnitedNationsWater

Rivers
[|International Rivers Network] [|American Whitewater Association] [|Rio Grande River - NPS] http://www.internationalrivers.org/

World Water Forum
[|World Water Council]
 * News** - [|Google News] **[|ESPAÑOL]) ([|YAHOO NEWS])**

Water Conservation Tips Use an egg timer in the shower

NOAA
http://shiptracker.noaa.gov/shiptracker.html

2013 The United Nations designated 2013 as the International Year of Water Cooperation [|A/RES/65/154]

Las Naciones Unidas declararon 2013 como el Año Internacional de Cooperación en la Esfera del Agua

Videos
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[|The rivers project] A journey down the Northern Territory’s Daly River and tales of other rivers lost and remembered.

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Quotes If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. - [|Loren Eiseley], The Immense Journey