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Water Around The World

Mangrove rebuild – Senegal – ech2o newsletter snippet

Mangrove rebuild – Senegal – ech2o newsletter snippet

The IHRA (International Rainwater Harvesting Association) are co-funding a project in central Senegal to help prevent the advance of ‘tannes’ (salty lands) by restoring mangrove forests. In addition to restoring the mangrove ecosystem, the project also promotes better management of

Cath Hassell2 November 10, 2021 Water Around The World Read more

Drought in Taiwan – Taiwan – ech2o newsletter snippet

Drought in Taiwan – Taiwan – ech2o newsletter snippet

Taiwan is the most recent country to suffer a devastating drought. Taiwan should be one of the rainiest places in the world – its climate is subtropical in the northern and central regions, and tropical in the south. Typhoons are

Cath Hassell2 July 7, 2021October 7, 2021 Water Around The World Read more

Toilet to tap in California – USA – ech20 newsletter snippet

Toilet to tap in California – USA – ech20 newsletter snippet

Excellent article about recycled wastewater  in California where intensifying drought has meant the utilities are increasingly relying on sewage to generate the state’s water needs. Twenty years ago, Los Angeles County spent millions on a recycled wastewater plant only to shut

Cath Hassell2 July 7, 2021October 7, 2021 Water Around The World Read more

Cyclones in the Indian subcontinent – India – ech2o newsletter snippet

Cyclones in the Indian subcontinent – India – ech2o newsletter snippet

Interesting video about rapid intensification of cyclones – a phenomenon that is occurring more frequently and is driven by climate change. 90% of the current heating of the earth is being absorbed by the oceans, and this heat is being held in

Cath Hassell2 July 7, 2021October 7, 2021 Water Around The World Read more

Bathing in sunshine – Susie Diamond, UK

Bathing in sunshine – Susie Diamond, UK

We are a family of 4 with two adults and two teenagers. We all take showers every day or two, and my husband and I usually take a bath each at least once a week (I am only sharing this

Cath Hassell2 April 22, 2021 Water Around The World Read more

Asparagus growing in Peru  – Peru – ech20 newsletter snippet

Asparagus growing in Peru  – Peru – ech20 newsletter snippet

‘Where there is no engineer’ is an initiative from The Dublin Institute of Technology and Engineers Without Borders, Ireland. It focuses on community resilience and one particular case study looks at asparagus production in the Ica region of Peru. Most

Cath Hassell2 April 7, 2021October 7, 2021 Water Around The World Read more

Running Out? Water in Western Australia – Sarah Bell, Australia

Running Out? Water in Western Australia – Sarah Bell, Australia

As an academic in urban resilience and environmental engineering I have made a career researching water all over the world. My very first water research started in Western Australia as an eight year old choosing my own school project. Forty

Cath Hassell2 February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Water Around The World Read more

Our 20 year old rainwater harvesting system – Viv Lund, UK

Our 20 year old rainwater harvesting system – Viv Lund, UK

Looking for a new family home in London in 1999 we took advice and found a suburban ‘semi’ that would lend itself to one or two modifications enabling more sustainable use of resources. Within 18 months of moving in, the

Cath Hassell2 February 15, 2021March 2, 2021 Water Around The World Read more

See through loos – Japan – ech2o newsletter snippet

See through loos – Japan – ech2o newsletter snippet

In Japan there are, apparently, two concerns with public toilets, especially those located in parks. The first is whether it is clean inside, and the second is that no one is secretly waiting inside. These loos, that turn opaque once

Cath Hassell2 October 7, 2020October 7, 2021 Water Around The World Read more

I wish I’d been a monk … Warren Liebold, Europe in the Middle Ages

I wish I’d been a monk … Warren Liebold, Europe in the Middle Ages

Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire, by Roberta L. Magnusson, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.   Before reading Water Technology in the Middle Ages I don’t think it ever occurred to

Cath Hassell2 June 25, 2020 Water Around The World Read more
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