Water Around The World

There are 118,000 fire hydrants throughout New York. A fire hydrant can release 4,500 litres of water per minute when fully opened, so recreational use may cause the network to lose pressure, potentially reducing the system’s capacity to quench fires.

Big dams are always contentious. This article looks at the proposed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile, one of the three main tributaries of the Nile that begin in Ethiopia. It will double the country’s electricity generation capacity with

Where do you go to the toilet when you live in a floating home? Over 100,000 people live on Tonlé Sap Lake in Cambodia.  Many people use the lake as a toilet, the same lake that they use to wash

Nepal declared open defaecation free country, so the headline proclaimed from The Himalayan Times (https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/nepal-declared-open-defaecation-free-country/).  My mind instantly turned to a recent memory, while I was at our project site in Humla.  I had been playing peek-a-boo with a cute,

This is what Singapore call its treated wastewater. There are five NEWater plants supplying up to 40% of Singapore’s current water needs. The water undergoes a three step process. Microfiltration: Microscopic particles including some bacteria are filtered out at this stage.

Italy is composed of many beautiful areas, from the vast farmed hills in Tuscany to the spacious beaches in Sicily, not forgetting the rich history preserved in Rome. It is also home to a rich culture forged through hundreds of

Water is directly linked to an area’s economic state, ‘without clean water you can’t grow food… you can’t stay healthy, you can’t stay in school and you can’t keep working’. [1] Nigeria Facts Nigeria, one of the group of countries

Completed in 1985 (and extended in early 2018) to prevent raw sewage polluting Lake Michigan when it rained Chicago’s ‘super sewer’ is being overwhelmed. The TARP (Tunnel and Reservoir Plan) reservoir stores up to 3.5 billion gallons of rainwater and

Nepalese rice farmers have boosted rice yields by 25% by sowing fewer plants and cutting down on the levels of flooding of the paddy fields. Research has shown that more weeding is required and there is also a risk if

Across India, 600 million people face acute water shortages, with around 200,000 dying every year because they lack access to clean water, and it is estimated that at least 30 percent of the population in India is affected in one