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Water Around The World

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

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

Pneumatic Poo – Philippa Jefferis, UK

Pneumatic Poo – Philippa Jefferis, UK

What links Cairo, Oman, Gibraltar, Bolivia, Porto and the capital city Yangon in Myanmar with the Houses of Parliament in London? Unless you have really spent a lot of time doing pub quizzes during this Lock Down, then it is

Cath Hassell2 June 11, 2020July 3, 2020 Water Around The World Read more

Water at The Graig, Llanidloes, Mid Wales – Chris Lord Smith, UK

Water at The Graig, Llanidloes, Mid Wales – Chris Lord Smith, UK

Despite living in one of the wettest part of Wales, water and its conservation is of great importance.  For example, this is written in the middle of May and for the last 6 weeks we have had no significant rain

Cath Hassell2 May 31, 2020June 4, 2020 Water Around The World Read more

Do not use the toilet while the train is standing in the station – Cath Hassell, India and UK

Do not use the toilet while the train is standing in the station – Cath Hassell, India and UK

“No more platform No 2s” was a headline in the Guardian back in October 2017 referring to the fact that in 2019 the practice of trains discharging the contents of their toilets directly onto the tracks would stop.[1]  A combination

Cath Hassell2 May 11, 2020May 11, 2020 Technical blog, Water Around The World Read more

Testing for coronavirus in wastewater – a game changer in the fight against Covid-19? – Cath Hassell, World

Testing for coronavirus in wastewater – a game changer in the fight against Covid-19? – Cath Hassell, World

We all know that Covid-19 is a respiratory illness and you catch it by inhaling infected droplets, but can the virus that causes it (SARS-CoV-2) be found in wastewater and if so is that a good or a bad thing?

Cath Hassell2 April 22, 2020April 29, 2020 The Water Column, Water Around The World Read more

‘Open defaecation free Nepal’ – Philippa Jefferis, Nepal

‘Open defaecation free Nepal’ – Philippa Jefferis, Nepal

Nepal declared open defaecation free country, so the headline proclaimed from The Himalayan Times (https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/nepal-declared-open-defaecation-free-country/).  My mind instantly turned to a recent memory, while I was at our project site in Humla.  I had been playing peek-a-boo with a cute,

Cath Hassell2 December 16, 2019December 20, 2019 Water Around The World Read more

Water in Florence – Axel Alabi, Italy

Water in Florence – Axel Alabi, Italy

Italy is composed of many beautiful areas, from the vast farmed hills in Tuscany to the spacious beaches in Sicily, not forgetting the rich history preserved in Rome. It is also home to a rich culture forged through hundreds of

Cath Hassell2 May 16, 2019September 16, 2019 Water Around The World Read more

Trans-National Corporations and water accessibility – Axel Alabi, Nigeria

Trans-National Corporations and water accessibility – Axel Alabi, Nigeria

Water is directly linked to an area’s economic state, ‘without clean water you can’t grow food… you can’t stay healthy, you can’t stay in school and you can’t keep working’. [1] Nigeria Facts Nigeria, one of the group of countries

Cath Hassell2 May 16, 2019September 16, 2019 Water Around The World Read more
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