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Author: Cath Hassell2

Flood tunnels of Tokyo – Japan – ech2o newsletter snippet

Flood tunnels of Tokyo – Japan – ech2o newsletter snippet

The flood tunnels of Tokyo are the largest stormwater drain system in the world. A 6.3 km tunnel system connects five water courses to the main river (the Edo) 50 m below the surface. Why is this massive engineering feat

Cath Hassell2 November 4, 2022April 4, 2023 Water Around The World Read more

Bubble barrier – Netherlands – ech2o newsletter snippet

Bubble barrier – Netherlands – ech2o newsletter snippet

  Currently being trialled in Amsterdam in Westerdok at one of the outlets from the canals into the IJ. To prevent Amsterdam canal plastic from flowing into the North Sea. Basically a perforated tube is laid diagonally across a river

Cath Hassell2 October 5, 2022April 5, 2023 Water Around The World Read more

July 2022 – showers and adolescents, in their own words

July 2022 – showers and adolescents, in their own words

I have blogged about showers and adolescents before but never spammed you with a series of pie charts, an omission for which I profusely apologise… So now to right that wrong. The following data was collected from 370 adolescents across four

Cath Hassell2 July 11, 2022April 28, 2023 Shower Blog Read more

Warren Liebold – RIP – Cath Hassell, US

Warren Liebold – RIP – Cath Hassell, US

I saw Warren talk at a Waterwise event in 2005 in Oxford maybe earlier. Talking about the free WC upgrades in New York City as part of the implementation of mass metering. Something I had known about since the early

Cath Hassell2 June 10, 2022September 6, 2022 Water Around The World Read more

Flamingo Engineering – Calling all engineers!

Thanks to an Ingenious Grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering, in 2022 and 2023 we will be introducing a load of six to eight year olds all about what engineers do, why ‘Think it! Build it! Test it!’  is

Cath Hassell2 June 6, 2022July 24, 2023 Flamingo Engineering Read more

Artificial snow at the Winter Olympics – China – ech2o newsletter snippet

Artificial snow at the Winter Olympics – China – ech2o newsletter snippet

Beijing 2022 was the first Winter Olympics to rely almost 100% on artificial snow. Before the Games it was estimated that 222 million litres of water would be needed to create the snow conditions, in one of the world’s most

Cath Hassell2 March 4, 2022April 4, 2023 Water Around The World Read more

Collecting water in an Indian village – ech2o newsletter snippet

Collecting water in an Indian village – ech2o newsletter snippet

Collecting water from wells is primarily a job for women and girls. In Nashik in Maharashtra, women have to climb inside a 60 foot well to collect water as can be seen left and in this video. The onerous task

Cath Hassell2 February 5, 2022April 5, 2023 Water Around The World Read more

January 2022 – showering for as long as I want. Part 2

January 2022 – showering for as long as I want. Part 2

Way, way back, in April 2014, I got a bona fide shower invitation to test out a recycling shower. I subsequently blogged about it under showering for as long as I want . It’s taken a long time to get

Cath Hassell2 January 28, 2022January 28, 2022 Shower Blog Read more

Rainwater Harvesting – Nepal – ech2o newsletter snippet

Rainwater Harvesting – Nepal – ech2o newsletter snippet

This report from Al Jazeera highlights three ground-breaking examples from Nepal which support rainwater collection and use it to mitigate against water shortages. For the past four years in Nepal, Liwali residents have been collecting rainwater through a system of

Cath Hassell2 January 5, 2022April 5, 2023 Water Around The World Read more

Why raingardens are so great – by Clarence the crab

Why raingardens are so great – by Clarence the crab

When it rains I and my friends get poo on our heads. Which is really, really, really yukky.       Why does this happen? Well, it’s because of combined drains. Combined drains take both sewage (which is what we

Cath Hassell2 November 25, 2021November 25, 2021 Frankie on tour, The mysterious case of sinking flamingo latest Read more
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