Water Around The World

I have been meaning to write up this story since pretty much the first edition of this newsletter but somehow never got round to it. So, I was 22 (relevant cos I still had that proto-adolescent brain that thinks you

2 x outlets are required in all showers in student accommodation in Sweden. This little known fact was discovered by Kat (who is Swedish) after a student, who was renting her flat in Uppsala, fell asleep in the shower after a

Fab images of some of the wind catchers of Persia. A way of cooling buildings having been practiced for hundreds of years, often with water at the base of the towers to cool the air further. They are certainly effective, so

Great picture gallery of women plumbers in Jordan women plumbers in Jordan by Amanda Ruggeri. With interviews with the plumbers and background of the water security issues facing the country.

Back in March Cath blogged about the water crisis in Cape Town  At that point it was touch and go whether Cape Town would completely run out of water. That scenario has now passed. Heavy rains at the end of June

This fascinating infographic from Nature (an international science journal) proves the adage that every picture paints a thousand words. In a nutshell, red shows the availability of freshwater is going down and blue that the availability is going up. But it’s the

Three thousand litres of water – that is the amount needed to produce the food each British person eats every day. This is the opening line of a recent article also published on The Conversation. The piece reports on research

Having only just recovered from the million miles I walked when at Glastonbury Festival I am now reminiscing on the delight that was the toilet experience there. With a total of 200,000 festival revellers the toilet queues at Glastonbury can

Spring Hill Farm near Pershore in Worcester was a family farm from the early 19th Century until the 1990s. The farm is 600 acres (248 hectares) and the soil type is sandy loam and alluvial clay loams. The farm was

I grew up on the Dorset coast surrounded by the sea and rivers, and I have always had a love for water. I enjoyed endless summers as a kid in paddling pools, the sea or playing in local rivers and