Image via Stanford University Fresh, clean, drinkable water is an increasingly rare thing on this planet, especially in places that are suffering through catastrophes like floods or must deal with high levels of pollution without the resources to set up Full Article at Treehugger

Images: Youtube screen grabs It Can't Get More Local Than That A family living in Mesa, Arizona, has decided to convert an old unused backyard swimming pool into a very productive DIY urban greenhouse, which they named Garden Pool. Within a small, mostly Full Article at Treehugger

Image: Macro-Sea and Vamos Architects (via NYT) Last year's Dumpster pool parties of Brooklyn have made it to the big time: Park Avenue in New York. For the first three Saturdays of August, three of these pools -- repurposed dumpster bins that have been Full Article at Treehugger

Image via Blue Living Ideas The problem of sea level rise is usually discussed in terms of the dislocation of people away from coastlines, or even whole islands. But sea level rise has another dire impact: the loss of freshwater drinking supplies. The Full Article at Treehugger