Water Purification and Management in Small Towns
By Jaceline Peirrera

‘Water has no taste, no color, no odor; it cannot be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself. It fills us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.’

There surely must be something about this clear liquid that inspires men like French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry to write such extravagant verses about it. But really you don’t have to be a great writer to know the importance of water, just go out, run a mile in the hot sun, and then you’ll know how precious a chilled glass of water could be.

Water is as we all know is essential for multiple human activities. As time has gone by, the number of activities has increased but the amount of water has steadily reduced. Only a small portion of the earth’s water is freshwater that can be used by humans. It’s not just the amount that has reduced; the quality of water too has fallen to abysmally low and unhealthy levels in the last few decades. By 2020, it is predicted that wars will fought for clean water, not oil, diamonds or gold. This situation really needn’t arise if we can use technology correctly to manage and optimize existing water supplies.

Clean water is a major issue especially in small towns, where due to heavy industrialization or other developmental activity the water sources have become highly contaminated. The contamination of water is with a variety of pollutants, organic and chemical – acid drainage, agricultural runoff, sewage etc. Many of these pollutants are sometimes unavoidable by-products of growth and development. Eighty percent of infectious diseases are waterborne. This explains why often diseases spread like wildfire through smaller towns, leaving many residents especially children sick and quite often even seriously hospitalized.

Thus, it is clear that a good water purification and management system is must for the prosperity and well being of any place. The problem lies in choosing and implementing the right system, with the right capabilities, that is holistic and one that comes at the right price. Because you don’t just want a solution, you want an effective solution.

The problem with conventional methods and strategies is that they often focus on electro-mechanical solutions that require high capital investment and have high maintenance costs. Their purification is often not holistic leaving some amount of impurities in the purified product. Another major drawback is that these conventional systems have a shorter life span compared to many of the new and alternative naturally-based technologies and methods of water purification. Another great advantage new alternative methods have over their conventional counterparts is that they exert lesser pressure on the environment.

Consider for example, DynGlobal’s line of products that can provide self sustaining clean water systems that can work effectively in the any area. With technology that is solar powered and requires no power source. This not only makes it environment friendly but also allows it to work in remote areas with little or no infrastructure. Armed with just a freshwater source it can produce up to 6,500 gallons of pure potable water free from bacteria, virus, cysts, pathogens and chemicals like lead, mercury and arsenic. After all, there’s nothing more important than good ol’ water.

Jaceline Peirrera is an executive for DynGlobal a leading global provider of water purifiers and water treatment plants. DynGlobal is committed to helping provide clean, safe drinking water and renewable energy solutions to those on our planet facing environmental challenges and disaster response.

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23-year old Justin Helton of Summerville was killed around 2 a.m. Thursday after being sucked under the train.

Nisbet says Helton had been drinking at a bar to celebrate his birthday.

At some point, Helton got into a fight and went outside.

Helton boasted that he was going to slap a train that was passing by but instead he was sucked into it.

Helton was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Sustainable Living – What is it and How Can You Live It?
By James H Hunt

Simple Living:

Living sustainably relies on living more simply but does not mean you have to pack up your possessions and go live a nomadic life out in the natural world. It doesn’t mean stop eating meat and become a vegan and doesn’t mean you have to give up life’s luxuries. In order to increase the sustainability of your lifestyle, you need to simply cut down on the clutter around you and think before you buy and use things. Ask yourself what things do you really need and what is important to you?

Make Environmentally Friendly Choices:

Just try to stick to a greener lifestyle! Don’t quit driving but when you do drive, be aware of your fuel consumption, take it easy on the accelerator and try not to make unnecessary trips. When cooking try and make sure there is no waste, eat as much as you want but try to throw away as little as possible. Instead of buying your food, why not try and grow it! If you have the space, why not start growing your own vegetables and herbs. Sustainable living is all about weighing up your options before buying a product, limiting yourself and generally doing what’s best for the environment.

Conserve Natural Resources:

Natural resources are anything that isn’t man made, everything from the air and water to fossil fuels. Be aware how much water you’re using, try to conserve petrol, manage your heating and energy usage. You won’t only help save the environment but you’ll save money as well. Try and buy local produce as well if you can as it doesn’t have to be transported long distance meaning it has a much smaller carbon footprint. You could also think about the packaging of products, fresh products often have less as well as taste better!

Change Your Mindset:

To live sustainably you need to change your ways of old and begin to think about what you are going to do in the future. You need to change the way you think about many aspects of your life: start saving energy and water, try not to pollute as much and reduce your usage of fossil fuels and make sure you recycle.

Take it one step at a time and over time you’ll save both money and the environment.

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Homeless Families Need to Be Given a Chance
By David Milton Peterson

For some, being homeless sounds like a nightmare – for others, being homeless is pure reality. How many of you have witnessed a homeless person holding a sign up on the side of the road? You try not to look at them, you try to look the other way – you do not want to look into their eyes. They notice that you are doing this. They know that you do not want to look at them. Some choose to shout mean things at them, like “get a job, ” or worse. They’re just people that are trying to survive. Sure, you live in a world where you get up each morning and go to work, then come back to your home. Yet, there are some that do not have this opportunity. They apply for jobs and get frowned upon. Not many employers give homeless people a chance to work for them. They are too afraid that they will take things from the company, when in all actuality, this may solve a lot of problems. In this day and age, we are seeing more and more homeless families walk into the shelters with nothing more than the clothes on their back and the shoes (if any) on their feet.

When you look at a homeless family, you see a family that has been stricken by sadness and parents that have been stricken with guilt. They feel as if they are the ones to blame for their children having to suffer. Some leave their children in the shelter in hopes that they will have a better life, while others choose to stick beside their children.

They may have become homeless because of a house fire. Their mother and father could have lost their job or maybe they had an addiction, but we are not here to judge them. We are here to lend a helping hand just like you should be doing. Below, we are going to look at some facts on homeless families.

When you take a brief look at the background of these families, you will see a high amount of traumatic stress. We’re going to start by looking at homeless mothers.

Fact number one: ninety two percent of the homeless mothers have experienced some type of sexual or physical assault in their lifetime.

Fact number two: Forty four percent of them have lived outside of their homes at some point when they were kids. Of these forty four percent, twenty percent of them were put in foster care.

Fact number three: Thirty six percent of the homeless women have experienced what is known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at a rate that is three times higher than other women.

There are three facts on homeless women. Now, we are going to look at some facts on homeless children.

Fact number one: Thirty four percent of the school-aged children that have been homeless have lived away from their families at one point in their life.

Fact number two: Homeless children are known for suffering from behavioral or emotional problems. These problems have an effect on their learning.

Fact number three: Homeless children that are between the ages of six and seventeen years of age struggle with a high amount of mental health problems. As an example, forty seven percent of them have depression, anxiety or withdrawal.

Now that we have gotten some of the facts out of the way, there are some other things we would like to discuss with you. Have you ever thought about how a homeless person would go about getting a job? What phone number would they give? What about their address? How are they supposed to get a house if they do not have a recent reference with a landlord and address?

There are many things, such as this, that we take for granted, yet, they are a big problem for the homeless. There are working centers that are giving bus tickets, message systems that are used for getting job calls and resume help. However, there need to be more than this.

Another obvious issue amongst these families is food. If this issue is not addressed first, then everything else will be in the back seat. There are some helping hands that have started community gardens offering their land to those who would like to grow their own food but do not have land in their name.

Those unemployed homeless people are frequently tagged as being lazy when this simply is not the fact. There are homeless people that would love to have a job, but they are faced with numerous obstacles that are impossible to get past. Then, you have to take into account their appearance. The appearance is unkept, their clothes have been weathered and they have not been groomed. Many employers shun them away.

There is ways that you can help the homeless families. You can help by donating money, food or clothes. On an ending note, if you are an employer, you can help by giving them a job and a chance.

For more information about homelessness visit Hope Haven Homeless Ministries. Also visit Hope Haven Gospel Mission to help.

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Why It’s Important to Keep Up With the News
By Marie Huitt

Many people neglect the news and are unaware of what is going on in the world around them. This is a large mistake however and a good understanding of current affairs is actually crucial for many reasons. Here we’ll look at just why it’s so important to follow the news and why you should look for a news blog, website or news channel to provide you with regular updates.

Firstly the news can sometimes affect you. You might not think that news is constantly about crises in other countries, or things that have happened to other people, but more likely the news reflects a policy or government decision that will be utilising your tax money and that will affect your economy. The government is designed to work for us and this is the true idea of a democracy, however it’s the press and the blogs and news channels that allow us to actually see what the government are doing and that allow for democracy to work. People fought and died for freedom of speech and the freedom of the press that comes with it, and so to turn your back on it is a serious mistake. When it comes to an election, the news through the last few years should be the main thing influencing your decision.

At the same time the news can often affect you directly. For example the recent news of the ash cloud covering the sky meant that many flights had to be cancelled or couldn’t go ahead. However only those who read a news blog or watched a news channel would have known not to go ahead and book any last minute flights. Even on a more basic level, the news often includes the weather, and this will affect whether we get wet when we head outside or remember to bring an umbrella.

The news is also very important for conversation. If something big has happened in the news then this is a sure fire way to spark up a conversation with someone where there might otherwise have been an awkward silence. At the same time in a group of people talking about the news you won’t want to be the only one who isn’t aware of what’s going on as this can make you feel very isolated and out of touch. At the same time you might lose respect from the other people who value the news and current affairs more.

Of course the news is also just interesting and while there will be a lot you’re not interested in, there will always be something that catches your attention and that is related to one of the fields you find interesting. If you like celebrities and gossip then this always finds its way on to the news, while meanwhile you’ll also likely find information about sports and cutting edge science.

If you want to stay up to date with the news but struggle to find the time, new media technologies are now allowing many new methods to get quick and specific news updates meaning there’s really no excuse left for not knowing what’s going on in the world.

For Jacksonville news there are many sources. Follow the link for the Jacksonville blog and more.

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You Can See it From Space
By Tim Pipp

It used to be that you could define how big, or ‘great’, something was, by adding the qualifier, “..you can see it from space!” The fact that you could see a man-made or natural creation from space was an amazing description of its sheer size. As earthlings learned to send manned spacecraft, satellite-based cameras or other imaging devices into space, and, more importantly, transmit that information back to earth, a broader picture of the world we existed in, created, modified, and sometimes destroyed, became evident. Some of the early examples of things that you could see from space are the Great Wall of China, the Great Barrier Reef, the Grand Canyon, and the peaks of the world’s great mountain ranges and paths of the great rivers.

Fast forward from those early imaging days – they were so 1960′s, anyways – to today. The technological advances are amazing – both in imaging capabilities and transmission from space directly to your home office computer or cell phone. Take the GeoEye-1 satellite, for example. It flies through space overhead at an altitude of 400 miles, each picture can capture a piece of the earth that is about 10 miles wide, all with the resolution of about 16 inches! All that data is seamlessly transmitted back to land for data processing and image production. This means that you can not only see the Great Wall of China, but also take a virtual overhead tour of the entire Wall from the chair you are sitting in. With the addition of 3D technology in Google Earth, you can get a perspective of the terrain surrounding the Wall, too. You can also take a tour of any city and check out the skyline, or fly through the Grand Canyon.

What’s more amazing is that if you keep zooming in to an area – and then zoom in just one last time – you are automatically transferred to another data set. This is terrestrial data, collected from a car with some weird gadget on top taking pictures at street level. I picture a digitized, 21st century Ansel Adams, standing on top of his car capturing images, except this is in mass production mode with no skill required. With the data from the space images directly correlated to the terrestrial drive-bys based on GPS coordinates, you can virtually sky dive from space and land right outside your door. There are flaws, especially with the rapid construction of neighborhoods and the lag-time of the latest images becoming publicly available. Our house, for example, as seen from space, is still a construction pit without a foundation. Zoom in to street level, however, and out of the dirt appears our house, our car in the driveway, and a perfect record of how well we did shoveling the sidewalks after a snowstorm this past winter.

The damage and alterations we cause the Earth can also be seen, however. This includes the Bingham Copper Mine of Utah, oil and natural gas wells near Hobbs, NM (each white dot is another well), and the dead Colorado River Delta in the Gulf of California, Mexico, which used to be a wetlands but is now a mudflat. Something that is artificially imposed on the space images, which can’t really be seen from space, are borders. When viewed from space, borders, territories, and states do not exist. I think John Lennon would disable the “show labels” option when using Google Maps.

But I look forward to how quickly these imaging databases will advance from today. I got a taste of it today – I just took a quick tour of Olympus Mons, a 90,000 foot tall behemoth of a mountain on mars (the largest known volcano in the solar system), with Google Earth (or Google Mars?). A handful of high-resolution space-based images are also available, which allow you to tour the slopes of the great mountain and search for possible hiking routes to the summit. Maybe one day we’ll be saying, “you can see him from space, standing on the top of Olympus Mons!” And the next time you look up at the sky – smile! – we may be able to see you from space, too.

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