Frankie, Clarence and the local imbwili get to build a tippy tap. A tippy tap is a container of water on a pole that is controlled by a foot lever. Its a brilliant design and very easy to build.
Water smart stuff in the adventure
The leopards start changing their spots
Lisa is going for stars, Leroy has the stripes, and Lexi is touching up her spots. Now that they are suitably disguised, see if you can spot them below. Nothing here as far as I can see!!
March 2021 – showering at sea
Crazily this is my one hundredth shower blog! So what better time to have a blog with only a very spurious link to showers? Rhetorical question actually as my mind is already made up and really this blog should be
Frankie and the balloon race
Check out this fabulous video of Frankie the flamingo doing balloon racing with Ellie the elephant making a guest appearance: Note to self. Need to ask the WatEf technical department what SMILLING actually is. Its all a bit reminiscent of
February 2021 – showering in a plastic bag
Full on lockdown here in the UK so the chance to visit exotic places and experience the thrill of overseas showers is still null and void. But I did get an unexpected trip a couple of weeks ago. To A
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
Frankie’s youngest superfan yet!
Meet Olive – Frankie’s youngest fan so far. In fact she’s so young she hasn’t quite made it into the world yet! But her bedroom and her reading material is ready to go. So big shout out to her parents
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
December 2020 – Mea culpa? Nope!
Back in August in a bits and pieces kind of blog I wrote the following. Then I found this bar chart from Reddit. I’m intrigued by the differential between men who shower seven times a week (40.5%) v women
November 2020 – the coolest firework…
When posting my October no-blog I rashly promised one about fireworks for November: because I love fireworks because I could do a nice link between the water footprint of fireworks and how that equates to showers, and because I could