Only 0.024% of the Earth's water is available as liquid freshwater for human use. Nearly 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and 2.5 billion do not have adequate sanitation, resulting in 1.4 million child deaths per year from water-borne diseases. Water scarcity is a growing global problem exacerbated by pollution, population growth, and climate change.
The presentation shows the importance of water conservation. It provides information on how we can conserve water at home. For example, fixing leaky faucets can help conserve water.
13th Birthday of sasrai-Movement
sasrai Day – Boishakh 01/April 14, 2016 Appeal
12th Year of sasrai-Movement
Our Heartiest Love and Reverence for our Volunteer and Well-wisher around the globe
sasrai-Movement series Presentation in Observance of sasrai Day, World Health Day, Earth Day, Faith Climate Action Week, World Environment Day
sasrai Day Appeal Save Forest – Save Water – Save Earth & Life ensure Habitable Earth for Each
The presentation shows the importance of water conservation. It provides information on how we can conserve water at home. For example, fixing leaky faucets can help conserve water.
13th Birthday of sasrai-Movement
sasrai Day – Boishakh 01/April 14, 2016 Appeal
12th Year of sasrai-Movement
Our Heartiest Love and Reverence for our Volunteer and Well-wisher around the globe
sasrai-Movement series Presentation in Observance of sasrai Day, World Health Day, Earth Day, Faith Climate Action Week, World Environment Day
sasrai Day Appeal Save Forest – Save Water – Save Earth & Life ensure Habitable Earth for Each
Wetlands sustainability report3 -South Africa EditionNET Africa
Special edition: South Africa Regional Report Did you know that Botswana pioneered water accounting in the late 1990s and early 2000s?
This week we focus on Botswana, the South African country that pioneered water accounting in the late 1990s and early 2000s. We look at the progress they have made and how they have changed the way, we account for water all over the world.
We also feature Lake Malawi, which is a freshwater lake in the Africa Great Lakes region. It is rich in biodiversity with over 800 species of cichlids. Part of this lake due to its scenic beauty and outstanding universal values is a World Heritage Site. However, since 2011, the oil industry has explored Lake for oil. According to a number of leading environmental experts, including Godfrey Mfiti, any oil drilling in this Lake is detrimental to the survival of wildlife and available freshwater from this Lake. We review a book discussing the argument against oil exploration.
There are *countless* facts about the dangers of plastic bags that go overlooked every day. This presentation is WELL worth the time to check out as is http://bagthebags.com!
Community Cafe convened to brainstorm how Healdsburg could foster innovation in the future. This presentation was used to kick off the meeting and focused on past innovation and community spirit.
Wetlands sustainability report3 -South Africa EditionNET Africa
Special edition: South Africa Regional Report Did you know that Botswana pioneered water accounting in the late 1990s and early 2000s?
This week we focus on Botswana, the South African country that pioneered water accounting in the late 1990s and early 2000s. We look at the progress they have made and how they have changed the way, we account for water all over the world.
We also feature Lake Malawi, which is a freshwater lake in the Africa Great Lakes region. It is rich in biodiversity with over 800 species of cichlids. Part of this lake due to its scenic beauty and outstanding universal values is a World Heritage Site. However, since 2011, the oil industry has explored Lake for oil. According to a number of leading environmental experts, including Godfrey Mfiti, any oil drilling in this Lake is detrimental to the survival of wildlife and available freshwater from this Lake. We review a book discussing the argument against oil exploration.
There are *countless* facts about the dangers of plastic bags that go overlooked every day. This presentation is WELL worth the time to check out as is http://bagthebags.com!
Community Cafe convened to brainstorm how Healdsburg could foster innovation in the future. This presentation was used to kick off the meeting and focused on past innovation and community spirit.
CAWASA E-source Newsletter Issue 4 - October - December 2012CAWASA
The Green Economy Page 2
Secretariat News Page 3
S t. Lucia Water Rates Fact Sheet Page 5
CAWASA 2012 AGM Pages 6 and 7
Water in China Page 9
Minister says world can tap into China’s
water management Page 11
Successful Wastewater Treatment Plants Workshop Back Page
The Caribbean Water & Sewerage Association Inc. is a regional organization of water utilities dedicated to serving the growth and development of its Caribbean members.
Persuasive Essay On Water Conservation
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The Importance Of Water Safety
Argumentative Essay On Water Bottles
Essay on Water
Salt Water Essay
Water Safety Reflection Essay
Thesis Statement On Water Scarcity
Persuasive Essay On Save Water
Water On Mars
Argumentative Essay On Water Pollution
Essay about The Global Water Shortage
Descriptive Essay About Water
Water Inequality Around The World
Essay On Water Science
Essay on Water Treatment Process
Water Pollution In Florida Essay
Air And Water Pollution Essay
IN DEFENSE OF THE RATIONAL USE OF WATER, A SOURCE OF LIFE, ON WORLD WATER DAY...Faga1939
This article aims to highlight the importance of water for life on planet Earth, present how water emerged on our planet and demonstrate the lack of rationality in the use of water for its various purposes on planet Earth. Research carried out by the São Paulo State University (Unesp), Guaratinguetá campus, in collaboration with the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR) and the Astrobiology Institute of the North American space agency (NASA), considered that existing water on planet Earth would have become originated from comets (30%), asteroids (50%) and the solar nebula (20%) that collided with Earth. Around 800 million people do not have access to drinking water around the world, 2.5 billion people do not have basic sanitation and, between 3 billion and 4 billion people, which corresponds to half of the world's population, do not have access to water on a permanent basis using water of questionable quality every day and 11% of the world's population still shares water with animals in riverbeds. According to the WHO (World Health Organization), seven people die every minute in the world from drinking rotten water and more than 1 billion people still defecate in the open. The OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) reports that global water demand will increase by 55% by 2050. The forecast is that this year, 2.3 billion additional people – more than 40% of the world's population – will not have access to water if adequate measures are not adopted. Therefore, we have nothing to celebrate on World Water Day.
An Controversial Issue Of Drinking Water Crisis
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Literature Survey
Global Water Crisis Essay
The Water Pollution Crisis Essay
Water Crisis in Pakistan
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The Water Crisis Of Africa Essay
Flint Water Crisis Essay
Persuasive Water Crisis
The Water Crisis and Solutions Essay
Case Study : Flint Water Crisis Essay
The Cause Of Water Crisis In The United States
Essay On California Water Crisis
California Water Crisis Essay
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THERE IS NO REASON TO CELEBRATE WORLD WATER DAY.pdfFaga1939
Today, World Water Day is celebrated without any reason to celebrate due to the irrationality of policies related to the protection of the natural environment, including springs and watercourses and the poor management of basic sanitation in many countries around the world.
PowerPoint Presentation that was used during my roundtable presentation at the 2001 Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education conference on March 8th, 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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Resources
Editor's Notes
For the next few minutes I’m going to be introducing you to our unit on water. During this unit we will be discussing chapter 14:water and chapter 21: water pollution over the next two weeks. You will not have a quiz on Friday, instead you will take a combine chapter 14 and 21 quiz the following Friday.
Before I dive into our water unit I’ll begin by asking you to think way back to chapter 3. In that chapter we learned about natural cycles including the water cycle or the hydrolytic cycle. Back then, we discussed the steps in the water cycle and how the water cycle impacted how ecosystems work. Keep this model in mind during my presentation.
Now, to start off our new unit I want you to think about where your drinking water comes from. You may be thinking “From a bottle” or “from the refrigerator” but those answers will not be sufficient for this class. Freshwater is arguably the Earth’s most valuable natural resource and you need to understand the processes involved in acquiring freshwater suitable for human consumption.
There are some places in rural areas of the United States that still use well water but, for the most part, the freshwater from your taps comes from large water treatment facilities such as the one shown here. But, beyond that, where does the water come from?
Much of our freshwater comes from groundwater. Groundwater sources are created and replenished when precipitation infiltrates the ground and is stored in spaces in soil and rock. These underground caverns and spaces between soil layers create aquifers, which are like underground rivers through which groundwater flows. Wells can be used draw water from aquifers.
The problem is that over-pumping underground water can cause aquifers to slowing degrade resulting in subsidence or sinking of the land. Over-pumping and also cause aquifers to collapse suddenly creating large sinkholes that can swallow homes, business, roads, cars, and trees.
Water that does not infiltrate the ground or evaporate runs off into bodies of water as surface runoff. Surface water is freshwater that flows across the earth’s land surface and into rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, ponds, wetlands, and estuaries. This surface water is then replenished by surface runoff.
We sometimes use dams as a means for collecting surface water. Large dams and reservoirs can produce cheap electricity, reduce downstream flooding, and provide year-round water for irrigation but there is a cost. Dams also displace people and disrupt aquatic systems.
After discussing freshwater sources we will begin talking about how important freshwater is to humans—there is far less available freshwater on earth then you may realize. We will also look at different human activities and practices that waste water as well as things that can be done to increase our freshwater supplies.
When we are talking about freshwater you need to understand that water wasted is not just another drop in the bucket. Factors such as the relatively low cost of water in our country have lead to gross misuse of this invaluable resource. Lifestyle changes and well as changes in policy are needed in order to alleviate this problem.
Although it is true that 2/3rds of the Earth is covered by water, only 0.024% of that water is available as liquid water suitable for human use. Even though water scarcity is not an issue that effects populations in U.S. and most other developed countries, water scarcity is a serious problem in many developing countries.
By 2025 water scarcity will even spread further. This map predicts the global per capita water available in 2025. The red countries exhibit extreme water scarcity, the orange countries are experiencing water scarcity, and the countries in yellow are experiencing stress due to low freshwater availability.
Though water scarcity could lead to thirst, the main problem is that there is not enough available CLEAN drinking water. Nearly 1 billion people lack access to safe water and 2.5 billion do not have adequate sanitation.
The two major water pollution problems are (1) exposure to infectious disease organism from having to drink contaminated water and (2) not having enough water for effective sanitation. A lack of clean drinking water leads to outbreaks of illnesses such as typhoid fever, cholera, and dysentery.
The World Health Organization estimates that 3.2 million people per year die prematurely from infectious diseases spread by contaminated water or lack of water for adequate hygiene. 1.4 million of those people are children under the age of 5. Each year diarrhea alone kills 1.9 million people90% are children.
Water pollution is a serious problem in both developed and developing countries. In chapter 21, we will discuss several types of water pollution including infectious agents, oxygen-demanding wastes, plant nutrients, chemicals, sediments, and thermal.
In addition to looking at how humans are wasting and polluting the Earth’s water resources, we will examine what can be done and global, national, and local levels in order to reduce water pollution.
Individuals do matter, but reducing waste and water pollution is a global issue that will require global action and coordination which is why will talk about factors and possible solutions at global and national levels. We will do some specific local-level work though so that you all can learn what YOU can do to help and so that we can convince your PHS peers to do the same!
Some of the solutions/methods that we will be talking about are; desalination, greywater and low-flow systems, changing water use policies, prices, and taxes, planting crops based on water-demands, and at home practices such as the use of rain barrels and taking shorter showers.
To sum it all up. This unit will begin with sources and importance of freshwater, transition to water use/misuse of freshwater resources, and end with an examination of possible solutions. Along the way you will examine and evaluate your own habits when it comes to water use, create materials to help others improve their water use practices, and reflect on the issues discussed in this unit.
