Environmental Issues

Water Plays Vital Role in Facilitating Life and Growth by Sr. Kathleen Stagnaro, OSF

Newspapers by Sr. Roberta Brunner, OSF

Bottled Water by Sr. Eleanor Berret, OSF

Blessed Are They Who Turn Things Off submitted by Sr. Helen Rose Yee Sang, OSF

Water - Source of All Life! Presentation for the Environment Commission by Sr. Maria da Paz de Jesus, OSF.

Água É Vida - Vida Para os Pobres - Vida Para O Mundo

Clean Water Act Congress passed the Clean Water Act three decades ago to make the nation's waters safe for people and wildlife. Now this landmark legislation is under attack on several fronts.

Water, A Fragile Resource Pollution can enter at any stage in the water cycle. When we pollute the air we pollute the water vapor that is present.

The Water Crisis: Reality and Ideology Our planet has 70% of its surface covered by water- therefore, from a poetic and scientific point of view, it is the "Water Planet": 97% is salt water; 2.4% is fresh water.

Water for Profit In the past ten years, three giant global corporations have assumed control over the water supplied to almost 3 million people in every continent of the world.

National Parks Our National Parks are facing "the gravest contemporary threat to the park's resources that we face - greater than invasive species, or air pollution, or any other," (David Uberuaga, superintendent of Mt. Rainier).

Farmersville Landfill On September 15, 2003, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) notified Integrated Waste Systems (IWS) that the company's application for permission to build a ten-million-ton landfill in Farmersville is complete.

The Hybrid Car A regular car uses energy for starting from the battery. While driving a mixture of gas and air and a spark from the charging unit (generator) create a combustion within a chamber.