Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Existence--In Space Around a black hole 12 billion light years away, there's an almost unimaginable vapor cloud of water--enough to supply an entire planet's worth of water for every person on earth, 20,000 times over.
Updated Tue Oct 18, 2011
Water World The only way to understand and appreciate the importance of water to our lives is to look at the data flow. | Illustration by Francesco Franchi
Updated Tue Aug 2, 2011
Why GE, Coca-Cola, and IBM Are Getting Into The Water Business Water is becoming a high-stakes business where there's money to be made everywhere you look -- from greasy wool to microchips. | Illustration by Brock Davis
Updated Wed Jun 29, 2011
The Dangerously Clean Water Used To Make Your iPhone The ultra-pure water used to clean semiconductors and make microchips would suck vital minerals right out of your body. Plus it tastes really nasty.
Updated Fri Apr 29, 2011
The Big Thirst: Why Climate Change Might Cut Your Shower Short The lessons of Perth, Australia, and how they can help us avoid a dismal new water forecast from the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Updated Tue Apr 26, 2011
The Big Thirst: Nothing’s Quite So Thirsty As A Las Vegas Golf Course Strict controls and smart re-use means the water that happens on Vegas links stays on Vegas links.
Updated Mon Apr 25, 2011
The Big Thirst: The Secret Revolution In U.S. Water Use Fact: The United States uses more water in a day than it uses oil in a year. And in four days, the United States uses more water than the world uses oil in a year.
Updated Thu Apr 21, 2011
The Big Thirst: The High Cost Of Bad Water In the U.S., Canada, and Europe, we don't worry much about diarrhea. But diarrhea is a plague in much of the developing world--deadly and costly.
Updated Mon Apr 18, 2011
The Big Thirst: One Water Statistic We Ought To Retire In this installment of "The Big Thirst," the author and Fast Company writer explains why one oft-used statistic about the scarcity of water is misleading.
Updated Mon Apr 18, 2011
The Big Thirst: Your Saliva Was Born In The Milky Way In this installment, "The Big Thirst" author and Fast Company writer explains how every drop of water you'll ever know, from the spigot to the toilet, is about 4.3 billion years old.
Updated Wed Apr 13, 2011
The Big Thirst: How Is Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Plant Making “Radioactive” Water? In this installment, "The Big Thirst" author and Fast Company writer explores how water, which technically can't be made radioactive, could be the least threatening byproduct of the hobbled Fukushima plant.
Updated Wed Apr 13, 2011
Total Teamwork "Teamwork is a harder way of doing the work. But when it clicks, the result is a seamless experience."
Posted Wed Dec 19, 2007
Raise the Roof SpectraSite is a small company with big real-estate holdings in the New York area: 1,200 rooftops. After September 11, SpectraSite did its part by searching for even more rooftops to handle the city's communications crisis.
Posted Wed Dec 19, 2007
Raise the Roof SpectraSite is a small company with big real-estate holdings in the New York area: 1,200 rooftops. After September 11, SpectraSite did its part by searching for even more rooftops to handle the city's communications crisis.
Posted Wed Dec 19, 2007
To The Moon! (In a Minivan) How NASA and Lockheed Martin are building a successor to the Space Shuttle--using off-the-shelf technology and plain old pragmatism.
Posted Wed Dec 19, 2007
Hire This Guy In the fast-changing world of corporate sustainability, environmental consultants are the new management gurus. And Mike Brown is the master.
Posted Wed Dec 19, 2007
How Green is Wal-Mart? In October 2005, Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott outlined audacious environmental and sustainability goals for the company. Here's the status of some of the company's major initiatives.
Posted Wed Dec 19, 2007
Message in a Bottle Americans spent more money last year on bottled water than on ipods or movie tickets: $15 Billion. A journey into the economics--and psychology--of an unlikely business boom. And what it says about our culture of indulgence.
Posted Wed Dec 19, 2007
Degree Of Difficulty Global warming threatens the very viability of Aspen's famed ski resort. The real fix is about changing the way people think.
Posted Wed Dec 19, 2007
No Satisfaction at Toyota What drives Toyota? The presumption of imperfection--and a distinctly American refusal to accept it.
Posted Wed Dec 19, 2007
