Residents of Ishinomaki cooked on a makeshift grill in front of their damaged home on Tuesday.
Photo Kyodo News, via Associated Press
See more of the hundreds here :
Photos of Japan After Earthquake and Tsunami – Photographs – NYTimes.com.
The Japanese seem to be very strong and there seems to be a real sense of lets just get on with it and we can get through this. Despite every horror they must have seen and been through it is good to see them making the best of things like this
Breaking!!!! First Picture Of CYCLONE from a Tanker
Cairns : Australia | Feb 02, 2011
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8069596-breaking-first-actual-picture-of-cyclone-yasi-must-watch
Cyclone hitting land now at Mission Beach..
Google Map view of what is happening
http://mapvisage.appspot.com/static/floodmap/map.html#center=-17.86637013652945,146.98555755615237&zoom=9&layers=QldCyclone
Live from ABCNews
http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/
Just how big is this storm system?
Overlaid over map of the US ..
http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2011/02/02/1225998/819572-tc-yasi.jpg
and more..
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/floodrelief/north-queensland-braces-for-cyclone-anthony-as-cyclone-yasi-brews-behind-it/story-fn7ik2te-1225998711771#ixzz1CnIf8ZCS
Photo: Alex Anlicker
NATURAL WATER
Only 3% of the earth’s water is fresh, non-saline water. Of that non-saline water, 31% is accessible as fresh water. For every gallon of fresh surface water, there are 30 gallons that lie underground. The primary source of water for municipalities is ground water.
Water is held in underground reservoirs known as aquifers. To collect in the aquifers, water passes through the atmosphere where it dissolves and collects atmospheric gases such as nitrogen, carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide. When it falls to the surface as rain, it’s mildly acidic with a pH just below 7.
It then passes through layers of surface soil, clay, sand, gravel and other porous materials. As it passes through those layers, it is filtered, preventing it from dragging most surface impurities with it underground. However, it does carry minute quantities of bacterial spores.
Read More @ http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/.
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