More than one-fourth of Puerto Rico still lacks electricity four months after Hurricane Maria struck the island. Around 45 percent of the neighborhoods on the island still have no electric service, CBS correspondent David Begnaud tweeted on Wednesday. The current ...
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The 5 Best Ways To Get Well Water Without Electricity
Water is the key to survival. At least 60 percent of the adult human body is made of water, and we can live no more than three days without it. Since most modern water pumps use electricity to obtain well ...
Read More »41 Days Later, Puerto Rico Is Still Without Electricity
Most Puerto Ricans will be without electricity for the foreseeable future after a controversial contract to rebuild the island’s power grid was cancelled. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) on Sunday cancelled a $300 million contract to rebuild the ...
Read More »Puerto Rico: 85 Percent Still Without Power; People Drinking Dirty Water With Animal Urine; Hospitals Struggling
Puerto Rico has become “generator island,” as most residents of the commonwealth still lack electricity, running water and healthcare nearly a month after Hurricane Maria. The New York Times painted a grim picture of life on the island. “Because of ...
Read More »‘Apocalyptic’: Puerto Rico To Be Without Electricity 6 MONTHS; Cell Towers Destroyed; People Dying
The words “apocalyptic devastation” and “humanitarian crisis” are being used to describe conditions in Puerto Rico following hits by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, which have shut down modern civilization on the island. “It’s an avalanche of disasters, one disaster after ...
Read More »5 Forgotten Ways To Keep Food Cold Without Electricity
We have a hard time even thinking about living without electrical power. We use it for everything, from powering our cell phones to running our factories. Without it, modern life, as we know it, would cease to exist. That’s why ...
Read More »The Island Where Electricity Is Banned & Everyone Has 10 Acres
The off-grid life is growing in popularity across North America, but it certainly doesn’t always take the same form. That’s what filmmaker and professor Phillip Vannini discovered when he spent two years travelling to every province and territory in ...
Read More »‘This Is An Apocalypse’: Puerto Rico Endures 2nd Night Without Electricity; State Of Emergency Declared
Most of Puerto Rico endured a second night without electricity Thursday following the total collapse of the island’s power grid. All it took was a fire at one power plant Wednesday to shut down a grid that provides power to ...
Read More »Fire Causes Major Blackout In Puerto Rico; 3.5 Million Without Power
SAN JUAN – The entire island Puerto Rico fell into a blackout Wednesday following a major fire at a power plant that left officials wondering what had happened. It is unclear when power will be restored, local media reported, but the ...
Read More »How Is Screen Time Impacting Our Society?
August 8th 2016 Video courtesy of Delaney Ruston SCREENAGERS probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, including the director’s own, and depicts messy struggles over social media, video games, academics and internet addiction. Thru surprising insights from authors and ...
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