Is Your Filter Wasting 4x the Water You’re Drinking?

Reverse osmosis water filters are water hogs. Period.

I’m talking about those easy, discreet, under-the-counter filters so many of us love, the ones that give us endless gallons of delicious, purified water…

10 Ways to Save Water this Summer (aka Keep Your Knife Sharp and Don’t Upset the Neighbors)

Water conservation lists don’t usually address knife etiquette. Instead, they’ll state that the only way to be a Good Water Citizen is to turn your lawn into a cactus garden…

Buoy’s Alt-FAQs

Plus, notes about training cats and a warning against tomfoolery.

We know it’s important to answer the most common questions about Buoy, but we don’t want to neglect the rare gems that come our way. If you’ve ever had a slightly unconventional question about Buoy, we hope…

Buoy: Now with More Joy

Best-selling author Dr. Wallace J. Nichols joins Buoy Labs as Chief Evangelist for Water

When we started Buoy Labs, we set out to create a company that would change the way we talk about water issues. Water-related headlines in the U.S. are dominated by…

People Are Gross

Not you, obviously, but, you know, people. Other people. This isn’t news to anyone who has been a human or spent time with…

Buoy Labs at the MIT Water Innovation Prize

Being a keynote speaker is an interesting gig. The event chooses the speaker for one of many reasons: area of expertise, relationship to the institution, rising star in a growing industry, or being named George Clooney. (That guy must get asked to…

We’ve Irreversibly Damaged Our Groundwater Storage. Here’s What We Do Next.

In just three years, California permanently altered its ability to store groundwater. Three years. It took millions of years to form the layers of clay, sand and gravel that cradle the water under…

Comedy, Tragedy and Optimism

You know the idea that comedy is tragedy plus time? I keep waiting for enough time to pass so there’s space for humor. But it’s been relentless lately, with human tragedies and natural disasters hitting one right after another, sometimes simultaneously and never with enough room…