This is the picture posted by my friend's Di from Canada.
Click on the post to read the information!!
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
H2O - The essential to life.
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Collecting Water Container
When I was visiting China in the 80's, I don't see the bottled water business.
However, now, the business is everywhere.
One can imagine the pollutions in the air & on the ground!!
It is alarming concern in China, as i see many historical building the "White Jade" are experiencing corrosions!!
Monday, December 05, 2005
Hoover Dam
In 2002, I have spend some 2 visit to Hoover Dam in Nevada.
I am told that most of the water in Southern California are supplied by Colorado river & Hoover Dam.
The water level in the dam is lower each year. These create a serious concern about the ever increasin drinking water price in Southern California.
Well, if we are not taking step to preserve the water supply & plant more trees, we would be facing our own destructions for not having enough water supply!!
Friday, November 25, 2005
Water Pollutions
Looking at the beautiful views of this Lake Tahoe.
Clear blue water.... Very nice view...etc.
But you looking at the boat on the Lake!! When I was visiting Lake Tahoe some 3 years back, What I found is there is very fine layer of oil on top of it.
With the speed boat & gas base water transport on the Lake, sure it would not be long, we would not be able to enjoy these beautiful scene anymore.
But most import is also the drinking water pollutions & after maths of drinking these polluted water!!
That would be really sad!!
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Green House Effects!!
This beautiful Narcissus suppose to be the flower's of spring.
However, it is blosom in my yards since late Oct 2005.
This is really a concern to all. The pollutions that cause the Green House effects is altering the Biological clock of the plants'.
Pollutions on the air when after raining , those particles would polluted our drinking water on earth.
These is a seriouse concern to all.
We need to responsible & take action now, before it is too late!!
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Blue Water
When the sky is clear & blue, the lake or reservoir water must be clear & Blue!!
If it is not then, there is a serious pollution issues that you have to take action.
Water is 75% of our body.
We need to treasure clean water!!
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Cleaningness of Water
Looking at the water falls quality.
You see the nice green & blue.
But when I was last at the Nigara Falls, I found lots of oil stain floating on it surface.
We have to be concern on the water quality on earth, to all what we can to protect it & ensure that the water that we during, for growing of plants & vegetables & clean.
So that we can enjoy our longevity & great health!!
Monday, October 31, 2005
Global Warming!!
Looking at this photos, I am sure the plants' are confuse with the wealther conditions now.
i.e. The satellite forecast is day teperature is 70 degree F, but it went up to 78degree, night temperature is 58 dagree, then it went down to 52 degree!!
Click on the photos to read more...
If we are not protecting our environment & water & air. We would be responsible for our own doing!!
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Clean Water
We need to consistently check our environment.
Cut less trees, plant more trees & green our landscape.
Otherwise, the beauty of our mother nature would be gone.
We would no longer be able to enjoy the scenary like these!!
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Powder Activated Carbon for Water Filtration
I found this poster on www.flickr.com.
It is a knowledge for you to know how the filtration processs work.
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Water Viaduct That is Century Old
This is the Viaducts that ferry waters to my Late Parent's Home Town in Fujian; DongShan Island.
I am told that this is about century old. Supplying drinking water for 0.5millions people!!
Monday, May 16, 2005
West Palm To Study New Ways To Treat Water
Water Contaminations & pollutions is evermore critical now then ever.
It is important constantly to seek new ways & R & D on the subject matter, one cannot wait until the problem's surface then start to find a solutions to it. That would be too late.. lost a life's & money would happen.
West Palm to study new ways to treat water
By Thomas R. Collins
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 16, 2005
WEST PALM BEACH — City residents turned on their faucets one Monday morning last month only to be slapped in the nose by foul-smelling water that tasted like dirt.
City utility officials say they're about to take a hard look at their water system to keep the wincing to a minimum when people pick up their glasses.
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Among the 40 largest cities in Florida in terms of population, West Palm Beach is one of only three that rely primarily on surface water — a source that most in the water industry agree is harder to treat and is subject to algae blooms, like the one that had bottled-water sales skyrocketing recently.
When the weather turns dry, the city turns to Lake Okeechobee, which is so polluted and unfit for providing drinking water that it is frequently described as "chocolate milk" full of phosphates and nitrogens that allow algae to flourish and release foul-tasting compounds. And it's getting worse all the time, making future algae blooms more likely.
Despite that, the city has not turned to more sophisticated ways of treating water that could remove the offensive stuff. At least 17 of the cities in the top 40 have done so, including the other two that rely on surface water: Tampa and Melbourne.
The city's study comes in the middle of a population explosion in which 15,000 more water drinkers have moved into West Palm Beach over the last four years.
Water experts say the promise of more frequent algae blooms is a problem West Palm Beach shouldn't ignore.
"Sometimes you encounter a situation beyond what you expected to have," said Michael Hambor, an operations supervisor with the Palm Beach County Health Department who oversees drinking-water quality. "Now they're going to have to go back and decide what do we do when these things happen."
"I think they have a lot of opportunities with their water treatment facility," said Randy Smith, spokesman for the South Florida Water Management District.
City utility officials promise to respond.
"If they have some alternative methods that would really help our customers, we will definitely budget them and build them," Public Utilities Director Ken Rearden said. "I don't want to deal with this every year."
Ever since railroad tycoon Henry Flagler started drawing rainwater from a low-lying area for his Royal Poinciana Hotel in 1894, the city has relied on surface water.
Today, 19 square miles of wetlands west of Florida's Turnpike store rainwater for drinking. The quality of that water is superior to other surface sources, such as the Hillsborough River, which Tampa uses.
The city is trying to decrease its reliance on Lake Okeechobee during dry periods. It has tested a program in which water is stored in underground wells, though an expansion of that system has stalled because of electricity problems.
The city also is planning to open a plant that treats waste water and returns it to the drinking water supply, but that has been delayed because of problems with the contractor, utility officials said.
"Our mission is to stop reliance on Lake Okeechobee because of the water quality," Rearden said.
The city's plant has won awards and West Palm Beach once won an award for best-tasting water in the region, though that was so many years ago few can remember when it was.
Still, a recent algae bloom, prompted by a hurricane-churned Lake Okeechobee, threw the city for a loop. Utility officials, who use powdered carbon to treat the compounds, simply added more. But they were adding it to the wrong place at first, and had to fix it. They eventually received emergency permission to tap into an underground well of cleaner water to dilute the city's water. Since then, they've upped the amount of chlorine in the water for better disinfection.
Palm Beach County objected to the city's use of the well, worrying it might hurt the quality of the county's water sources nearby.
The city has painted itself into a corner on the algae problem, said Bevin Beaudet, the county's utilities director and past president of the American Water Works Association.
"They're not really looking for a longer-term solution," he said. "It would be presumptuous to say I know how to solve their problems. But if they worked on it they could do that."
More and more cities are turning to methods of treating water that are more sophisticated than West Palm Beach's chemical-treatment method. One is the use of synthetic membranes through which water passes.
Others use ozone, which mixes with the water and changes the molecular makeup of the impure material to render it odorless and tasteless.
The county began using membrane and ozone treatment in the 1990s, in part to eliminate taste and odor problems caused by sulfur, a common problem with underground water.
"The studies showed that the ozone greatly improved the taste and odor of the water and also helped us meet the future regulations," Beaudet said. Moving to ozone also would eliminate the need for chlorine and the waste product associated with it, he noted. Boca Raton and Boynton Beach have turned to membranes.
Rearden said the city will consider all methods, but said going to ozone would be expensive.
"Can you think about what the water rates would be for that?" he said.
Beaudet said the county's rates rose 10 percent or 15 percent over five years when the upgrades were made.
The Orlando Utilities Commission raised rates 10 percent for four straight years in the late 1990s to pay for its switch to ozone.
Others in the industry said newer isn't necessarily better.
WestPalmBeachPost
It is important constantly to seek new ways & R & D on the subject matter, one cannot wait until the problem's surface then start to find a solutions to it. That would be too late.. lost a life's & money would happen.
West Palm to study new ways to treat water
By Thomas R. Collins
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 16, 2005
WEST PALM BEACH — City residents turned on their faucets one Monday morning last month only to be slapped in the nose by foul-smelling water that tasted like dirt.
City utility officials say they're about to take a hard look at their water system to keep the wincing to a minimum when people pick up their glasses.
More local news
Latest breaking news, photos and all of today's Post stories.
• Sound off in the forum
• State/Legislature
• Columnists
• Crime, live scanners
• Photos
• Special reports
• Weather
• Traffic
• Obituaries
They'll have a lot to review.
Among the 40 largest cities in Florida in terms of population, West Palm Beach is one of only three that rely primarily on surface water — a source that most in the water industry agree is harder to treat and is subject to algae blooms, like the one that had bottled-water sales skyrocketing recently.
When the weather turns dry, the city turns to Lake Okeechobee, which is so polluted and unfit for providing drinking water that it is frequently described as "chocolate milk" full of phosphates and nitrogens that allow algae to flourish and release foul-tasting compounds. And it's getting worse all the time, making future algae blooms more likely.
Despite that, the city has not turned to more sophisticated ways of treating water that could remove the offensive stuff. At least 17 of the cities in the top 40 have done so, including the other two that rely on surface water: Tampa and Melbourne.
The city's study comes in the middle of a population explosion in which 15,000 more water drinkers have moved into West Palm Beach over the last four years.
Water experts say the promise of more frequent algae blooms is a problem West Palm Beach shouldn't ignore.
"Sometimes you encounter a situation beyond what you expected to have," said Michael Hambor, an operations supervisor with the Palm Beach County Health Department who oversees drinking-water quality. "Now they're going to have to go back and decide what do we do when these things happen."
"I think they have a lot of opportunities with their water treatment facility," said Randy Smith, spokesman for the South Florida Water Management District.
City utility officials promise to respond.
"If they have some alternative methods that would really help our customers, we will definitely budget them and build them," Public Utilities Director Ken Rearden said. "I don't want to deal with this every year."
Ever since railroad tycoon Henry Flagler started drawing rainwater from a low-lying area for his Royal Poinciana Hotel in 1894, the city has relied on surface water.
Today, 19 square miles of wetlands west of Florida's Turnpike store rainwater for drinking. The quality of that water is superior to other surface sources, such as the Hillsborough River, which Tampa uses.
The city is trying to decrease its reliance on Lake Okeechobee during dry periods. It has tested a program in which water is stored in underground wells, though an expansion of that system has stalled because of electricity problems.
The city also is planning to open a plant that treats waste water and returns it to the drinking water supply, but that has been delayed because of problems with the contractor, utility officials said.
"Our mission is to stop reliance on Lake Okeechobee because of the water quality," Rearden said.
The city's plant has won awards and West Palm Beach once won an award for best-tasting water in the region, though that was so many years ago few can remember when it was.
Still, a recent algae bloom, prompted by a hurricane-churned Lake Okeechobee, threw the city for a loop. Utility officials, who use powdered carbon to treat the compounds, simply added more. But they were adding it to the wrong place at first, and had to fix it. They eventually received emergency permission to tap into an underground well of cleaner water to dilute the city's water. Since then, they've upped the amount of chlorine in the water for better disinfection.
Palm Beach County objected to the city's use of the well, worrying it might hurt the quality of the county's water sources nearby.
The city has painted itself into a corner on the algae problem, said Bevin Beaudet, the county's utilities director and past president of the American Water Works Association.
"They're not really looking for a longer-term solution," he said. "It would be presumptuous to say I know how to solve their problems. But if they worked on it they could do that."
More and more cities are turning to methods of treating water that are more sophisticated than West Palm Beach's chemical-treatment method. One is the use of synthetic membranes through which water passes.
Others use ozone, which mixes with the water and changes the molecular makeup of the impure material to render it odorless and tasteless.
The county began using membrane and ozone treatment in the 1990s, in part to eliminate taste and odor problems caused by sulfur, a common problem with underground water.
"The studies showed that the ozone greatly improved the taste and odor of the water and also helped us meet the future regulations," Beaudet said. Moving to ozone also would eliminate the need for chlorine and the waste product associated with it, he noted. Boca Raton and Boynton Beach have turned to membranes.
Rearden said the city will consider all methods, but said going to ozone would be expensive.
"Can you think about what the water rates would be for that?" he said.
Beaudet said the county's rates rose 10 percent or 15 percent over five years when the upgrades were made.
The Orlando Utilities Commission raised rates 10 percent for four straight years in the late 1990s to pay for its switch to ozone.
Others in the industry said newer isn't necessarily better.
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Friday, May 06, 2005
Character of Water
The Character of Water Are
As Serene as the Widow Tree
As Smooth as the skill
As Power as the Avalonche Force
With these characters then it is affecting our health......
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Slice of Lemon In Water for Great Health
Do You Know Put A Slice of Lemon In Your Glass Of Water is Great for Your Health??
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Water for Great Health of Live
Like The PLant's..Flower's...Animal's..
We Human too.. Need Clean Water..
Free From Pollutions
Free From Contaminations
For The Great Health of Us, All Life On The Mother Earth.
Do a little each
Second
Minute
Hour
Each Day &
Everyday...
To Protect our Environment & for Our Great Health!!
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Clean Water To Bring Back Life
Looking at this picture, it take me Back to the late 50's & Early 60's, my home have two fish ponds the water is clean & clear.
There are always difference types of tropical fishs in the ponds.
Then after when the area become more populated. 1st it was the snakes.. then the fsih is allgone within half a year.
You see the industrailizations have kills life's.
We Baby bloomers' would have to clean these up for our love ones!!
Green The World.
There are always difference types of tropical fishs in the ponds.
Then after when the area become more populated. 1st it was the snakes.. then the fsih is allgone within half a year.
You see the industrailizations have kills life's.
We Baby bloomers' would have to clean these up for our love ones!!
Green The World.
Monday, April 11, 2005
Tulips With Rainbow Color
Our Mother Earth
Before Industrialization is Nature Green & Colorful.
Like Our Body, The Mother Earth is Containing 75% of Water.
Today, Our Enironment are polluted, Water Contaminated, Once Our Water Resource Dry Out.
Imaging these beatiful scene can only see in Our Digital Archives.
It Would Be A sad Future for Our Heirs.
Do Something Now to Protect Our Mother Earth!!
Before Industrialization is Nature Green & Colorful.
Like Our Body, The Mother Earth is Containing 75% of Water.
Today, Our Enironment are polluted, Water Contaminated, Once Our Water Resource Dry Out.
Imaging these beatiful scene can only see in Our Digital Archives.
It Would Be A sad Future for Our Heirs.
Do Something Now to Protect Our Mother Earth!!
Clean Water Need More Green
Looking At The Beauty of Clean Water.
Is Clean & Clear!!
More Trees Have Been Cut, Mean More Pollutions;
Less Oxygen!!
We need More Trees & Green Plants To Do The Organic Filtering;
Also, More Oxygen Means More Water!!
Better Health for US All!!
Is Clean & Clear!!
More Trees Have Been Cut, Mean More Pollutions;
Less Oxygen!!
We need More Trees & Green Plants To Do The Organic Filtering;
Also, More Oxygen Means More Water!!
Better Health for US All!!
Saturday, April 09, 2005
Friday, April 08, 2005
Keeping the Peace: Spill Capture at Niagara Falls
In 1996, when i was at the New York for conference, I took time off to visit Niagara fall.
Then It was the first time in my life that I see myself the historical landmark of nature. I did took a trip to the horseshoe fall. The views are spectacular.
I also have a close look of the cleaningness of the water ther. My impression is that the water is contaminated as I see the water is no blue or green , it is grey!!
I can understand the reason why it is grey!! As the tour barges are propelled by diesel. Overtime, there are leakage from the barges to the falls. These not only happen in Niagara Falls, it also happen in Lake Tahoe, when I last visit in 2002.
Eventhough the case study is done & spill are quickly clean of, the complete evaluations must be done & objectives must be agree to clean up the pollutions of the Niagara Fall.
Case Study: Keeping the Peace: Spill Capture at Niagara Falls
4/6/2005
The Peace Bridge Authority of Buffalo, New York and Fort Erie, Ontario completed re-construction of a Canadian truck processing yard at this busy international border crossing. The new construction called for a storm water management system to prevent environmental damage from commercial motor vehicle leaks and spills that frequently occur in such a high traffic area.
This area has a particularly fragile ecological system which include the famous Niagara Falls tourist and recreation area. Fortunately, the re-construction engineering plans specified two Stormceptor units.
On August 19, 1997, a tanker truck transiting the border was sent into Canada Customs for secondary inspection. The area for inspection is a congested holding lot in constant use. The truck suddenly developed a tank leak while in the lot. The leak was quickly cut off, but not before 400 gallons of palm oil spilled into the storm sewer system.
The two Stormceptor units trapped the oil and completely contained the spill, keeping it out of the eco-system. The storm water management system included sluice gates as a secondary containment, but the Stormceptor units fully handled the situation, and the sluice gates were not employed.
The construction superintended for the Peace Bridge Authority reported, "The spill was quickly cleaned up, including the maintenance of the two Stormceptor units (via vacuum truck).
To say the least, we are pleased at the ease of clean up and quick return to normal operation, with no damage to the environment.
Water Online News for wastewater professionals
Then It was the first time in my life that I see myself the historical landmark of nature. I did took a trip to the horseshoe fall. The views are spectacular.
I also have a close look of the cleaningness of the water ther. My impression is that the water is contaminated as I see the water is no blue or green , it is grey!!
I can understand the reason why it is grey!! As the tour barges are propelled by diesel. Overtime, there are leakage from the barges to the falls. These not only happen in Niagara Falls, it also happen in Lake Tahoe, when I last visit in 2002.
Eventhough the case study is done & spill are quickly clean of, the complete evaluations must be done & objectives must be agree to clean up the pollutions of the Niagara Fall.
Case Study: Keeping the Peace: Spill Capture at Niagara Falls
4/6/2005
The Peace Bridge Authority of Buffalo, New York and Fort Erie, Ontario completed re-construction of a Canadian truck processing yard at this busy international border crossing. The new construction called for a storm water management system to prevent environmental damage from commercial motor vehicle leaks and spills that frequently occur in such a high traffic area.
This area has a particularly fragile ecological system which include the famous Niagara Falls tourist and recreation area. Fortunately, the re-construction engineering plans specified two Stormceptor units.
On August 19, 1997, a tanker truck transiting the border was sent into Canada Customs for secondary inspection. The area for inspection is a congested holding lot in constant use. The truck suddenly developed a tank leak while in the lot. The leak was quickly cut off, but not before 400 gallons of palm oil spilled into the storm sewer system.
The two Stormceptor units trapped the oil and completely contained the spill, keeping it out of the eco-system. The storm water management system included sluice gates as a secondary containment, but the Stormceptor units fully handled the situation, and the sluice gates were not employed.
The construction superintended for the Peace Bridge Authority reported, "The spill was quickly cleaned up, including the maintenance of the two Stormceptor units (via vacuum truck).
To say the least, we are pleased at the ease of clean up and quick return to normal operation, with no damage to the environment.
Water Online News for wastewater professionals
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