WARLPIRI RELIGION. While the boundaries of Warlpiri territory have moved through time, the central-western part of the Northern Territory has generally been regarded as the heart of Warlpiri country. Until they were forced to sedentarize b...

In 1982 residents of the predominantly African-American Warren County, North Carolina, began to protest the construction of a hazardous waste landfill near Warrenton in which the state planned to bury 400,000 cubic yards of soil contaminat...

The English statesman Warren Hastings (1732-1818) was the first governor general of British India. He established the system of civil administration that was the basis of Anglo-Indian security and prosperity. Warren Hastings was born on De...

Warts are small, benign (harmless) growths caused by a viral infection. They occur on the skin or the mucous membrane. The mucous membrane is tissue that lines the nose, throat, digestive tract, and other body openings. The viruses that c...

Washington Irving was America's first successful professional man of letters, a gifted teller of tales, especially as a native humorist, a romantic historian, and an influential prose stylist. As a writer by profession, with The Sketch Boo...

The story of the Washington Post is really the story of three family members and one outsider who, over a period of four decades, took a somnolent and bankrupt newspaper in the capital of the United States and turned it into an icon of goo...

Most people toss their garbage into dumpsters and down their garbage chutes of to the streets, into parks, drains and the dirt. People haul their used furniture, bikes, old toys, and battered car parts to their city dump without a clue o...

The Wasteland begins with a Latin and Greek quotation about a Greek myth. The subject of the legend, Sibyl, possessed leaves, which contained riddles of forbidden knowledge. The riddles had to be unscrambled and placed in the correct order ...

Waste reduction, also known as source reduction, is the practice of using less material and energy to minimize waste generation and preserve natural resources. Waste reduction is broader in scope than recycling and incorporates ways to pre...

As a method of waste management, incineration refers to the burning of waste. It helps reduce the volume of landfill material and can render toxic substances non-hazardous, provided certain strict guidelines are followed. There are two b...

Wastewater often mixes with free-flowing water in rivers, streams, oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water. The addition of wastewater can radically alter the chemistry—and the ecological dynamics—of water bodies and hydrolo...

The Asiatic water buffalo is considered the true buffalo, Bubalus bubalis. The African or cape buffalo is Sycerus caffer. Buffalo is known as carabao in the Philippines, shui niu (water buffalo) in China, and kerbau in Malaysia. The size o...

Dedicated to "the preservation and enhancement of water quality worldwide," the Water Environment Federation (WEF) is an international professional organization of water quality experts. WEF is made up of 38,000 water profe...

The water frame was the first spinning machine that performed constant spinning of cotton yarn. Through the use of a series of rollers, the water frame was able to produce very strong, smooth yarn that paved the way for the weaving of all-...

The water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is an aquatic plant commonly found in the southern United States, including Florida, Texas, the Gulf Coast, and California. As an introduced species, it has spread rapidly and is now viewed as a ...

Overhydration, also called water excess or water intoxication, is a condition in which the body contains too much water. It occurs when the body takes in more water than it excretes, and its normal sodium level is diluted. This can result ...

Water purification is the process of changing undrinkable water to drinkable (potable) water. Water is a very good solvent, it is this one fact which makes it difficult to obtain pure water without treatment. One solute commonly found in w...

The environment in Butler County continues to grow everyday with people and living things. As our community grows, the need for water conservation is high. People use water for baths (the average person spends about five minutes in the ...

Ever since humans first took to the seas thousands of years ago, sailors have faced numerous dangers. Ancient civilizations tried to explain these dangerous conditions by claiming that they were the work of angry gods or monsters. While sc...

In common usage, the term water table expresses the surface dividing the unsaturated and saturated groundwater zones. More accurately, the water table lies within the saturated zone and separates the capillary fringe from the underlying ph...

The waterwheel is an ancient technology that converts the energy of rushing water to human use. Mostly used for milling grain in ancient times, the simplest waterwheel has a series of submerged paddles fanning out from a vertical shaft. Th...

A well is a hydraulic structure for withdrawal of ground-water from aquifers. A well field is an area containing two or more wells. Most wells are constructed to supply water for municipal, industrial, or agricultural use. However, wells...

Although an early mention of a waterbed was made in a 1961 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein--Stranger in a Strange Land --the concept was not practically applied until 1965, when two Tufts University physicians, Dr. James Weinst...

The creation of large software applications is rarely, if ever, a simple and straightforward business. There are all the problems associated with vanilla programming, as also those associated with running a successful business, as well as ...

The Waterkeeper Alliance is an umbrella organization consisting of 86 Waterkeeper programs (as of 2002) located throughout North and Central America. The mission of the Alliance is to restore degraded waters and to protect aquatic enviro...