Virtual water, part 2

Interactive poster from German designer

Posted by Maywa Montenegro (Guest Contributor) at 5:48 PM on 22 Apr 2008

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German designer Timm Kekeritz took the "virtual water" data that Sarah posted about from Waterfootprint.org and created this cool interactive poster. We featured Timm's work in the February issue of Seed (not online, but Treehugger wrote about it), which prompted me to order a giant paper version of the double-sided poster. With one side devoted to "footprints of nations" and the other side showing the water "inside" products, this enormous and graphically riveting wall-hanging makes a very cool, if intimidating, addition to any interior décor.

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Very cool

Now how about a poster featuring various water recycling methods and what percentage they could save. Greenhouse/lagoon gray water reclamation for drip irrigation, for instance.

And the potential savings from innovations like air flush toilets and sewage composting, compressed air/water washing and cleaning, and drip irrigation.

Also how much water would be saved by switching from fossil and nuclear power plants and fuel farmed fuel, all water intensive methods of energy generation, to a renewable smart grid employing wind, solar, water (that only harvests the energy of the current or waves), and biogas power generation (it saves water by recycling manure and farm waste).

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by amazingdrx at 8:05 AM on 23 Apr 2008

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