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NOMADOGRAPHIES,
2007-2009.
What happens in the water sector is to a large degree the consequence of decisions, activities, and progress in other sectors. Collaboration and exchanges across political borders and between sectors can generate benefits of multiple water availability and development options, and many transboundary/ transnational variations and rural/urban linkages. New technologies in communication and biotechnology has made more possibilities for monitoring and improving water conditions/wastewater treatment. Many positive advances continue to be made to protect this natural/necessary resource, however, continuing to raise consciousness and bring new ideas/strategies to the table is what we strive to do. Declining water supply brings a deluge of ideas (Financial Times, 8.18.06) We live in a world in which 2.6bn people consume water from unsafe and polluted sources, according to United Nations figures. "Everyone understands that water is essential to life. But many are just beginning to grasp how essential it is to everything in life - food, energy, transportation, nature, leisure, identity, culture and virtually all products used on a daily basis," says Lloyd Timberlake of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a business think-tank, which next week launches a report on the subject.
A non-digital
watch can be used as a compass. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system made up of a network of satellites placed into orbit by the U.S. Department of Defense. GPS was originally intended for military applications, but in the 1980s, the government made the system available for civilian use. GPS works in any weather conditions, anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day. There are no subscription fees or setup charges to use GPS. Originally designated NAVSTAR (NAVigation System with Timing And Ranging), development of GPS began in 1973. In 1978, the U.S. Department of Defense launched the first GPS satellite, imposing SA (Selective Availability); the intentional degradation of GPS signals to prevent military adversaries from using the highly accurate positioning data. SA limited GPS to 100-meter accuracy for non-U.S. military users. Magellan® introduced the first handheld receiver in 1989, making GPS available and practical for many new industrial and recreational applications. The network required to efficiently cover the Earth was completed with the launch of the 24th satellite in 1994. Replacement satellites continue to be launched, each having a life span of about 10 years. The GPS satellites were initially manufactured by Rockwell International and are now manufactured by Lockheed Martin. We usually trek with the GPS or the simple spectus. Its uses include but are not limited to: Navigation, Surveying, Location-based services, Geocaching, Flying, Time Reference, Geophysics and geology.
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This
is the design for a homemade Water Purification System that I designed
for myself to use last summer (2002) as I spent a month in the desert
outside of Bend, Oregon. I wore a wearable home, equipped with a "toolbelt",
a tazer and pack of 9V batteries, solar-recording equipment from sponsor
companies like Spy Emporium, pockets for a month's worth of vitamins and
other compact foodsource, compass, diary, analog camera, a prototype R.I.M.
device coupled with a good sat phone. People joined me for days at a time,
sometimes strangers and sometimes planned meetings, like John Barnes.
The homemade WPS was made from three small plastic bottles I found on
the way. With some lightweight fabric I made three pouches - the first
held pebbles, the second - sand, and the third held carbon from crushed
charcoal. (Carbon from a coconut shell is what I used in the replica at
the Biennialle.)
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