Walter Waters

(noun)

Walter W. Waters (1898—1959) of Portland, Oregon, was a former Army Sergeant in the United States Army who, in May 1932, led the 20,000-strong army of World War I veterans called the Bonus Army on their march to Washington, D.C. The veterans were seeking immediate payment of service certificates, essentially additional pay, promised to them by Congress in the World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 and scheduled for payment in 1945.

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Examples of Walter Waters in the following topics:

  • The Bonus Army

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    • Waters, a former Army sergeant, the organizers referred to it as the Bonus Expeditionary Force to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Force, while the media called it the Bonus March.

  • Introduction to Mapping Waste-Elimination

    • For this reason, Walter Stahel and I both advocate creating a sustainability process map (also known as a process flow chart) to help lay a strong foundation before application begins.
    • Maintenance (the chemicals, energy and water needed to use, maintain, and/or clean whatever is being produced), and

  • Variations in Orality

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    • And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.
    • In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters.

  • Connecting the dots

    • Furthermore, potable water is now at such a critical low level that wars over this crucial commodity are predicted to break out within 10–20 years while the Earth's resources (of which there are finite supplies) continue to be captured, abused, concentrated to industrial (toxic) levels, and discarded at an alarming rate.
    • Adapted from Walter Stahel's ‘Quality Cube'.

  • Television News

    • Walter Kronkite is one of the iconic figures in television anchoring .
    • In the early twenty-first century news programs, especially those of commercial networks, tended to become less oriented toward hard news, and often regularly included "feel-good stories" or humorous reports as the last items on their newscasts, as opposed to news programs transmitted thirty years earlier, such as the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.

  • How much waste is out there?

    • What has not yet been factored in to this data is the effect coal consumption has on groundwater pollution including benzene, arsenic, mercury, lead and other coal-producing carcinogenic materials that typically find their way into household water supplies.
    • (Epstein, Paul, ‘Full Cost Accounting for the Life Cycle of Coal', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences) Indeed, clean-up costs for a 2009 rupture of a fly ash containment area in Harriman, Tennessee, alone (fly ash is a toxic residue left over after coal is burned, which is often mixed with water to keep it from dissipating into the air) are estimated to be over $1 billion (this particular disaster flooded over 300 acres of forest, wiping out roads and railroad tracks and destroying several homes, thereby making it one of the worst industrial accidents in American history).
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  • Water reduction measures

    • With offices using up to 12% or more of a nation's daily potable water, much can be done to reduce consumption without making sacrifices.
    • Use filtered tap water rather than delivered bottled water – or use water straight from the tap.
    • In many regions local tap water is better than bottled water in terms of cleanliness and quality.

  • Water’s Cohesive and Adhesive Properties

    • When a small scrap of paper is placed onto the droplet of water, the paper floats on top of the water droplet even though paper is denser (the mass per unit volume) than the water.
    • Adhesion is observed when water "climbs" up the tube placed in a glass of water: notice that the water appears to be higher on the sides of the tube than in the middle.
    • Without these properties of water, plants would be unable to receive the water and the dissolved minerals they require.
    • In another example, insects such as the water strider use the surface tension of water to stay afloat on the surface layer of water and even mate there.
    • Water's cohesive and adhesive properties allow this water strider (Gerris sp.) to stay afloat.

  • Water’s Solvent Properties

    • Water's polarity makes it an excellent solvent for other polar molecules and ions.
    • The charges associated with these molecules form hydrogen bonds with water, surrounding the particle with water molecules.
    • When ionic compounds are added to water, individual ions interact with the polar regions of the water molecules during the dissociation process, disrupting their ionic bonds.
    • Water is a poor solvent, however, for hydrophobic molecules such as lipids.
    • This change in the hydrogen-bonding pattern of the water solvent causes the system's overall entropy to greatly decrease, as the molecules become more ordered than in liquid water.

  • Water’s Polarity

    • While there is no net charge to a water molecule, the polarity of water creates a slightly positive charge on hydrogen and a slightly negative charge on oxygen, contributing to water's properties of attraction.
    • As a result of water's polarity, each water molecule attracts other water molecules because of the opposite charges between them, forming hydrogen bonds.
    • A polar substance that interacts readily with or dissolves in water is referred to as hydrophilic (hydro- = "water"; -philic = "loving").
    • Oil and water do not mix.
    • As this macro image of oil and water shows, oil does not dissolve in water but forms droplets instead.