Water Around The World

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

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

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

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

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