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How to Write an Argumentative Essay About Water
One of my favorite questions from a reader was how to write an argumentative essay on water. Here is how you would turn such a topic into an essay.
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40+ Water Topics to Write About in an Essay or Article
Need to write an essay on water but stumped when it comes to the topic? Here are several writing topics about water with many subtopics you can pick from.
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Telepathy and Communication With Dolphins
Are dolphins telepathic? An early near-drowning experience in the ocean started years-long experimentation with the art of telepathy, and provided an increased understanding of dolphins too.
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Tears and Crying—It's OK to Cry
Why do we shed tears? How is it that nature somehow seems to relate to sadness as well as joy? This is a heartfelt article about what tears mean to us.
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What Caulk Is & How To Use It
Every home improvement article having anything to with water at some point talks about caulk. Whether you know what caulk is or not, you are bound to learn something new from this article.
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How to Build an Indoor Hydroponic Vegetable Garden
It's one thing to read about hydroponic gardening in your home, and quite another to actually do it. Here are instructions for how to build a vertical indoor vegetable garden using hydroponics.
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How to Switch Out Wall-Mounted and Handheld Showerheads
Some people like handheld showerheads, some prefer wall mounts. Others want both. This article shows how to convert one to the other when circumstances change.
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How to Move Your Showerhead Up or Out
Are you having problems with your showerhead? This do-it-yourself article shows how to extend your shower head pipe and improve its overall location.
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How to Clean or Replace Your Showerhead
Before rushing out to buy a new showerhead, try fixing the problem yourself. It's easier than you think to clean a clogged or rusted showerhead. If you need to replace it, you can do that yourself too.
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Where to Find Irrigation Parts and Supplies
When purchasing supplies for a DIY irrigation project, knowing who makes the parts you need and where you can find them is critical. Ewing, Orbit, Rain Bird, Valley, and more are covered here.
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Real Mermaid Life in the Ocean
Explore what life is like for mermaids to live in today's oceans—if they do exist. Read about what they eat and where they live and play.
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Reconstructing the Los Angeles River—Plans and Benefits
Major plans are afoot to turn the Los Angeles drainage ditch into a real river. One section has already been restored and the city has funding for the rest. This could soon become a cool tourist spot, but will residents benefit too?
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Mermaid Sightings and Speculation
There have been too many recorded sightings and too many cave drawings and legends of mermaids to just dismiss their existence as fantasy. Here are four possible reasons why belief in them persists.
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Importance of Water in a Healthy Pregnancy
You'd be surprised at what a critical role water plays in a healthy pregnancy. Not only can drinking more water relieve common pregnancy problems, like morning sickness and headaches, but it will also increase the health of your baby. This article shows you how.
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The Growing Industry of Cloud Seeding
The practice of cloud seeding (weather manipulation) for rain has spread throughout the world during the 50 years since its methods were first discovered. What does it look like now as an industry?
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How to Help Provide Clean Water for the Planet
With all the water and technology there is on this planet, there's no reason anyone should go without. Here are ways you can help supply healthy water for the world.
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The Importance of Water in the Human Body
You've heard that our bodies are vessels, with water constituting 60% of it, but have you ever wondered where all that water is or what it does? This article shows why the human body needs so much.
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Teapots, Tea Parties, & Interesting Teapot Stories
A teapot is a vessel in which you steep tea leaves or tea bags prior to drinking tea from tea cups. Some teapots can be used for other things, and other more infamous teapots have stories attached.
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How to Present a Facial Steamer as a Gift
Giving a facial steamer to a loved one can be tricky. Although using one can do wonders for the face, gifting someone with a facial steamer can be construed as an insult, if you're not careful. Here's how to buy and present one as a gift.
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Hiking the Devil's Punchbowl in Los Angeles County
If you've been looking for a unique place to hike around Los Angeles, the Devil's Punchbowl may be it. This canyon is filled with interesting formations carved out by earthquakes and water erosion. It's one of my favorite places to hike.
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How the Earth's Water Cycle Works
Have humans negatively affected the Earth's water cycle? If so, what can we do to reverse it? Here are some interesting facts about the water cycle you may not have learned in school.
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Designing a Business Proposal Cover Page
The cover page of a business proposal creates a first impression that can encourage or discourage an evaluator from continuing. This article shows how to design an attractive proposal cover page.
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Best Publishing Software: MS Publisher Review
Have you been wondering what kind of software to use for brochures, booklets, reports, and newsletters? This will help you compare MS Publisher with other popular desktop publishing software.
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Water Conservation Education for Children
In Orange County, CA a water utility joins with Disneyland to produce the nation's largest Children's Water Education Festival. It's a successful corporate partnership and a fun field trip for kids.
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4 Categories of Humidity Meters (Hygrometers) and Their Uses
Many factory, hospital, and home environments need specific levels of humidity for ideal work or health. Hygrometers play a crucial role in maintaining the right levels, as this article shows.
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Moisture Meters: Types and Uses
Moisture meters are calibrators that measure the amount of moisture within a solid or semisolid, like concrete or cheese. There are many different kinds for different types of work.
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Water Meter Types and Uses
Water meters are used in all sectors of society - manufacturing, construction, weather detection, and at home. Here is a list of the types and uses of different water meters.
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Land Use vs. Watershed Management Degrees
Experience is showing that wise water management is key to the success of a civilization. This article shows what a career in this field could entail and how to get training.
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Controlling Rivers & Managing Watersheds
We have manipulated two key watersheds, one tiny and one huge, to make them work better for humans. How have the Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles) and the Mississippi River (New Orleans) really benefitted?
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Drainage Basins: How They Affect Buying a Home
When buying a home, purchasers look at construction, aesthetics, convenience, and weatherability—but rarely geology. In the wrong location, you could lose your home to floods.
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Native Folk Art: Water Décor
The Santa Fe International Folk Art Market sells indigenous village arts and crafts to increase economic well-being worldwide. Here we describe the fair, showcasing crafts with water themes.
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Flow Psychology and the "Natural High"
Being "in the flow" is being "in the zone" or "in synch." It's having a natural high, a Zen moment, being mindful, operating at peak performance. It's one of the best feelings life offers.
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Hiring A Private Water Audit Consultant
Companies with large landscapes can often save water and money by irrigating the landscape differently. This article shows how to hire a private consultant to carry out a comprehensive water audit.
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Indoor House Plants: Watering and Decorating
Many first-time renters are uncomfortable with houseplants but long to have them. Using them for decor is one thing, but how do you water and care for them?
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9 Tips for How to Drink Enough Water
Drinking water plays a crucial role in good health. Most people don't know or think about the amazing benefits water brings to our bodies, but here they are, along with tips for getting your quota.
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Swimming Pool, Spa, & Pool Design Books
Looking at photographs in books is a great way to figure out what you want in an outdoor pool or spa. Once you've decided, different books can show you how to design, construct, and maintain it.
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How Rain Forms Naturally: Pseudomonas Syringae
For eons, agriculturalists have been fighting what they call "bacterial speck" on tomatoes and other crop plants without anyone realizing that the same bacteria is at the heart of rain and snow.
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Water Treatment System for Developing Countries
The SODIS (SOlar DISinfection) system shows developing countries how to put plastic bottles of water in the sun to kill bacteria. The lives of millions of people around the world have improved, as a direct result.
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Conserve Water with Composting Toilets
In Pakistan the Hunzas live to be 120 years old, using humanure (without drugs) to enrich their crops. In the west we are just beginning to realize it's value. Compost toilets help us create it.
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Relieve Stress With A Musical Bath Meditation
Why stress out and get sick, when you could prevent it by treating yourself nicely? Here is a special weekly treatment that will save you the misery: Music, candles, a hot bath, meditation.
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Summer School Job Training Program for Teenagers
A high school project that started teaching teens how to grow food morphed into a CSA and summer job training in irrigation repair. Now low income teens are growing and selling food like experts.
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Water in Music: 7 Songs, 7 Genres
Celebrating water in music with 7 songs in 7 diferent styles, including "Wade In the Water" (gospel), "Surfin U.S.A." (rock 'n' roll), and "Cool Water" (western).
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Home Drinking Water Filters & Purifiers
The right kitchen water filters can net you many years of healthy and good-tasting drinking water. This article can help you decide which kind of filter would work best for your home.
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Rain Water Harvesting—Alternative Water Supply
Water mega-projects, built for agriculture or manufacturing, are costly and nearly always destabilize the environment. We need to think smaller. How can individuals supply their own water?
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How Facilities Maintenance Finds Water Leaks
Facilities Maintenance is responsible for maintaining the function of a building's mechanical systems. If your water bills suddenly spike, you can engage them to help find the problem.
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Colonic Irrigation: Benefits, Procedure, and Safety
A ballooning stomach is an indication of chronic constipation, which means your colon needs cleansing. Since the colon breeds bacteria, many diseases can be prevented by cleaning it regularly.
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How HOA Property Managers Can Reduce Water Bills
For a typical homeowners association, there are three main areas where water use can be monitored and money saved: the landscaping, the HOA-managed facilities, and the individual units.
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How to Detect a Water Leak in the Irrigation System
Water leaks can cost you thousands of dollars on a large landscape, so they need to be discovered and fixed as soon as possible. This article will teach you how to find irrigation leaks.
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Water and Wastewater Management in the Home
Building new water sources costs billions of dollars that most governments don't have, but reusing wastewater can help relieve that need. This article covers home greywater and blackwater systems.
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Upgrading to a Solar Hot Water Heater
Heating water can be one of the most expensive hidden costs a homeowner has. One way to reduce it is to install a solar water heater that uses the sun's energy - which is free - to heat your water.
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Can Humans Make It Rain in the Desert?
Is it possible to make it rain wherever the need is? The U.S. military has made it rain, as have the governments of China and other countries all over the world. It is possible and often desirable, but what is the best way?
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Healthy Kidneys and the Role of Water
Water is directly related to the three roles that kidneys play. This article discusses those roles, shows what happens when we don't drink enough water, and gives tips for how to keep kidneys healthy.
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Portable Water Filters for Travelers & Hikers
One of the biggest fears travelers have about an unknown place is what it will do to their health. It's a valid fear, since 20-50% of travellers contract diarrhea per year. The water you drink is key.
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Ways to Prevent Water Pollution
What can be done to change people's minds about tossing trash in the streets or industrial waste in our rivers? We can start by looking at our own behavior and asking ourselves some key questions.
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Water Pollution Solutions: Can We Clean It Up?
Viable solutions to the water pollution messes we've made already exist. Here are some interesting examples of cleanup projects that are currently being carried out.
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How to Replace a Leaky Outdoor Faucet or Water Spigot
Leaky outdoor water spigots can be easy to fix for DIYers. If you don't like to pay others to do things you can do yourself, check out these simple steps to replace your outside faucet.
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Why Water Is Important to Life
What role does water play in life and what would happen if we were to lose it or it didn't exist? There are already parts of the world where we can see how life would change, if there were no water. This article explores it further.
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Photosynthesis and How Plants Use Water
Have you ever wondered what water does for plants? How do they absorb it or why do they need as much (or little) as they do? You'd be surprised at some of the ways in which water helps a plant.
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Chlorine vs. Saltwater Swimming Pools
As more and more swimmers and homeowners become uncomfortable with the health risks of swimming in chlorine, alternative sanitizers are being developed. One of those is the saltwater pool. Learn about the advantages of saltwater pools.
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3 Major Water Disease and Health Risks
There are three main health hazards that Westerners unknowingly contend with every day in their water: Chlorine in shower water, plastics in bottled water, and waterborne diseases from the tap.
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Wasting vs. Saving Water in the Home
We're using far too much water, especially in drought areas like the southwest U.S. Although we can't control corporate use or government laws, everyone can conserve water at home. Here is how.
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Safe Drinking Water in East Africa
Tourists go to East Africa primarily to see wildlife, which can be exciting and also dangerous. A more insidious danger, one that also needs protection against, is the water.
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Responding to a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a Landscape Irrigation Auditor
If you are a landscaping company and want to expand your business, offering irrigation auditing services can help customers conserve water. Try contracting with water suppliers.
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Aquifer Recharge vs Human Intervention
With our building practices, we have seriously disturbed the rain cycle in numerous ways all over the world, not the least of which has been disabling earth's aquifer storage system. How is that?
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6 Major Causes of River & Ocean Pollution
Water pollution continues to be a major crisis worldwide. Here, we show how (and with what) we pollute the world's waters, whether deliberately or unconsciously, and preventive actions we each can take.
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How Irrigation Controllers and Sensors Work
Irrigation controllers direct the timing of your sprinklers. When you program them correctly and attach weather sensors, you can improve your landscape health and lower the water bill, too.
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How to Spend Smart and Live Rich
Living rich comes from having more money than you really need. Try these tips to spend smart and cut your expenses in half.
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Best Sprinkler Heads for Watering Your Landscape
Using the right sprinkler head type can have a big impact on your landscape's health. There are three main kinds of sprinkler heads, each with a different purpose.
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The Three Main Types of Water Use Audits or Surveys
All over the country officials are urging us to use less water. Many offer free water use audits like this one that show you how to lower your average water bill.
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Energy-Efficient Dishwashers and How They Work
Dishwashers have become more efficient in the way they use water and electricity, but how can you tell the good from the bad? This article explores the nature of dishwashers to help you choose.
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Reduce Utility Bills With A Good Washing Machine
Installing a high efficiency washing machine is a good way to save water, electricity, and money. This article compares top loading vs front loading machines and shows how they work.
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Water-Saving Tips: Faucet Aerators and Low-Flow Showerheads
There are simple, low-cost moves that can help you save on your water bill right away. Read on about water-efficient showerheads and low-flow faucet aerators.
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How to Save Water With a Low-Flow Toilet
One of the biggest users of water inside the home is old toilets. Toilets built before 1992 use way too much water to flush with. Replacing them is a quick way to get solid water savings.