Environmental Consultancy
Under her stage name of cath-rhymes-with-bath-hassell, (though apparently it doesn’t in London) Cath will be doing a stand-up slot on Jan 16th as part of Engineering Showoff To ensure she actually fronts up she has also set up a site where
I ask this question since I spent a week in a science lab recently with a stream of eager 7-11 year olds coming in to learn how to be water smart. This was part of Thames Water’s fabulous Water Efficiency
It’s not just California that is experiencing severe water shortages. Saudi Arabia sits on one of the world’s biggest and oldest aquifers. But a (what is now recognised as) flawed agricultural policy in the late 1970s and ’80s, when a
Based on the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) standards the cumulative annual renewable freshwater availability requirement for Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Haiti and St Kitts amounts to 18.7 billion m3, whilst they currently have just 14.2 billion m3.
Frankie has been busy visiting some of her super fans! Sasha, Samantha, Cici, Mimi and LisaMu never miss an opportunity to pose with Frankie the flamingo or her book! Cici and Mimi even coloured in pictures for Frankie, which she absolutely
Just in before deadline day (thanks Ben) this fabulous article by Karim Elgendy about how cities in desert areas historically were founded, where they get their water supplies from, and the challenges for their future. (The image shows date farms in Liwa
Safa does loads of different stuff for ech2o. Very instrumental in getting The mysterious case of the sinking flamingo out into the world. Lives on a canal boat so really knows the value of short showers!
Kurt is a number crunching pro. He helped ech2o during his school holiday with data analysis and a whole bunch of school work. Cath forgot to quiz Kurt on his water use while he was in the office and now
Great interactive map of rainfall in Australia, 1900 to the present year by year. With major droughts and major floods highlighted. And this is a timeline of Melbourne’s water supply from 1803 onwards. From Peter Curtain’s blog (as per above).
Most of New York’s water comes from the Catskill/Delaware watershed (more than a million acres of land) 40% of which is owned by the state, the city or non-profit organisations. A lot of effort is directed at ensuring the source