When a Drought Becomes a Flood

imageMarch 22 is World Water Day.  Google told me so, with one of its fancy logo modifications that it uses to mark interesting occasions.

Sadly, the site of World Water Day, worldwaterday.org, is down—as your site would also likely be if Google decided to feature you on its home page.

What’s that expression? “It never rains but it pours?”  Well, even if you can’t get to the site, you can follow these tips for water conservation.

And remember, it never hurts to be ready for a big spike in traffic… Have you asked your Web provider how they’d handle something like this happening to you?

Posted by Travis Smith on 03/22 at 02:01 AM • Blogging Tips
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  1. Travis Smith points out that Google, out of the goodness of it's heart while trying to raise awareness for World Water Day, accidentally crushed the Web site of the group organizing this event, worldwaterday.org. [here]

    Travis poses the excellent qu…

    Posted by http://www.newestindustry.org/index.php/2005/03/22 on 03/22/05 at 04:42 AM

  2. Rob Ferguson wrote an interesting book a couple of years ago about the anticipated disappearance of the world’s 3rd largest lake, the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan. The estimates are it will be completely gone by 2010. The Devil and the Disappearing Sea is the title.

    Posted by Monique on 03/24/05 at 04:14 PM
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