Despite what it says in the Building Regulations, Cath argues the case for hand washing facilities in all public toilets to be cold water only to save on carbon emissions, without any detriment to health.
Washing Hands in Cold Water
AECB Water blog 1
Flooding, ‘Le Penseur’ – a sit-down toilet that imitates squatting, flooding, SWIG, the Renewable Heat Incentive will it kickstart the solar thermal industry, solar thermal and short showers …
Flood Management in the UK – Jim Allen, UK
Jim Allen, a civil engineer with expertise in SuDS design blogs about the recent extreme weather events in the UK, the complexity of flood management, gives the Environment Agency a cautious thumbs up and calls for a tidal barrage across the Severn Estuary. All this in less than 900 words!
Floods and SuDS
Cath discusses WSUD and SuDS in light of the recent floods
8 Myths of sustainability
Cath and others bust a few sustainable myths in this article by Katie Puckett
Finally – a water fittings standard for the UK?
Cath gives the inside story on how the UK Govt has proposed that a water fittings standard may soon be deemed to comply with the water efficiency requirement for new homes.
Water Submetering in New York? – Warren Liebold, US
Back in the late 1980’s New York City replaced 1.3 million toilets for free in a successful water efficiency programme. They have just launched a similar scheme to replace 0.8 million toilets. And yet apartments in the city are not metered for water. Why ever not? Warren Liebold Director of Universal Metering for New York City explains why.
Cath water podcast!
Listen to Cath burble on about all aspects of water on this podcast with Ben Adam Smith from House Planning Help.
A nervous woman’s view on the female urinal – Kate Fewson, Germany
Kate Fewson of Closed Loop Projects reminisces about a drunken encounter with a women’s urinal in Germany and asks what would it take for her to use one successfully?
Getting the facts right – why empirical data matters
Cath argues that in the face of overwhelming evidence that certain key ‘facts’ about water use are wrong, we need to use robust and properly evidenced data when calculating the savings from water efficient upgrades, or estimating household water usage.