Tag: water

  • Discontinuous Lead Bars

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    Brendan Barry
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    Last week the Guardian published an article about drinking water pollution across the United States. Overall, it was a nicely done piece and the graphics within segmented the longer text into discrete sections. Each unit looks similar: The left focuses on a definition and provides contextual information. It includes small illustrations of the mechanisms by…

  • Water, Water Everywhere Nor Any Drop to Drink Part II

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    Yesterday we looked at the New York Times coverage of some water stress climate data and how some US cities fit within the context of the world’s largest cities. Well today we look at how the Washington Post covered the same data set. This time, however, they took a more domestic-centred approach and focused on…

  • Water, Water Everywhere Nor Any Drop to Drink

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    Most of Earth’s surface is covered by water. But, as any of you who have swallowed seawater can attest, it is not exactly drinkable. Instead, mankind evolved to drink freshwater. And as some new data suggests, that might not be as plentiful in the future because some areas are already under extreme stress. Yesterday the…