It was launched in Pakistan in 1999, following a series of seminars organised by Nestlé PR company that
suggested urban water supplies were contaminated and other bottled water tainted.
Not exact matches
An 1884 newspaper illustration, for example, depicted a skeleton disguised as a fruit seller offering produce to little children,
suggesting that raw, unboiled fruits and vegetables led to cholera.17 The actual culprit, especially in such turn - of - the - century
urban metropolises as New York City, with its inadequate, overloaded
water and sewer systems, was most likely bacteria residing on the outside of the produce, or contaminated
water or milk that happened to be ingested, rather than anything in the produce itself.18 Given the laxative effect of fruits and vegetables if consumed in excess, however, it is understandable that people assumed fresh produce might contribute to diseases with symptoms that included diarrhea.
This
suggests that
urban run - off and the below - surface movement of
water could be important contributors to the flow of drugs into streams.
A floating raft stocked with the marine bivalves could remove about 60 kilograms of nitrogen from the
water each year, they
suggest, and a flotilla of hundreds of rafts could make meaningful improvements to
water quality in
urban areas.
Water, which can hide by covering up, reveal by erosion, or act as a medium for mixing disparate elements, has become a powerful metaphor in his present series, which
suggests the interpenetration between
urban social exchange and physical structures.
I would however
suggest that there is a need for a model for people to live within a close social structure without becoming detached from nature in which the land on which we live is involved with supporting us through what might be called
urban agriculture, vertical farming and the affiliated processing of clean
water, natural dynamic energy generation like wind, solar and
water, and cheap / easy / affordable transit all tied - up with great education and health care.
I would
suggest that the amount of
water we put in the atmosphere from irrigation is huge, but the amount NOT put in the atmosphere due to human use and
urban impermeable surfaces is also large, and I have not looked into the numbers.