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Water Around The World

From toilets to taps – USA – ech2o newsletter snippet

From toilets to taps – USA – ech2o newsletter snippet

www.waterpolls.org  is an interesting website. As the name suggests it is full of information garnered about water from polling the public (US public in this case) and a lot of different surveys are freely available to access. A couple of

Cath Hassell2 April 7, 2018October 26, 2021 Water Around The World Read more

Cape Town’s Water Crisis – What lessons can be learned? Cath Hassell, South Africa

Cape Town’s Water Crisis – What lessons can be learned? Cath Hassell, South Africa

Cape Town’s water crisis is now big news globally, though it has been exercising the minds of the four million city dwellers since this time last year. As I write this blog (26th Feb 2018) ‘Day Zero’ is now July 9th

Cath Hassell2 March 5, 2018October 26, 2021 Water Around The World Read more

Improving water supply to the residents of Freetown – Philippa Jefferis, Sierra Leone

Improving water supply to the residents of Freetown  – Philippa Jefferis, Sierra Leone

It is estimated that 54% of the world’s population now lives in urban areas and that proportion is expected to increase to 66% by 2050. That fact, and the predicted global population growth could mean another 2.5 billion people to

Cath Hassell2 February 19, 2018February 19, 2018 Water Around The World Read more

Beyond the urban: water efficiency and community participation in remote communities – Cara Beal, Australia

Beyond the urban: water efficiency and community participation in remote communities – Cara Beal, Australia

Some remote Australian communities have access to drinking water for only nine hours a day for part of the year, but these households can still use up to ten times the average of urban households. Many communities in the Torres

Cath Hassell2 January 29, 2018January 29, 2018 Water Around The World Read more

Ice stupas – India – ech2o newsletter snippet

Ice stupas – India – ech2o newsletter snippet

The lack of water from Himalayan melt ice is causing serious issues in the high plateaus of Ladakh in India. Ice stupas, invented by Sonam Wangchuk, take advantage of winter streams to provide a source of water in May and

Cath Hassell2 December 7, 2017October 7, 2021 Water Around The World Read more

How low can I go? – Safa El Jamal, UK

How low can I go? – Safa El Jamal, UK

It was 10 years when I awoke from an accidental nap in the middle of my climate change lecture. As I readjusted to my surroundings, I discovered that my lecturer was having a rant about the global water situation. I

Cath Hassell2 November 29, 2017January 29, 2018 Water Around The World Read more

Composting toilets in Bronx zoo – USA – ech2o newsletter snippet

Composting toilets in Bronx zoo – USA – ech2o newsletter snippet

Thanks to Warren Liebold who works in water for New York City Council for this next bit. The photos are ten years old but still sorta charming.  The Bronx Zoo had an early 20th Century comfort station near one of

Cath Hassell2 October 7, 2017October 7, 2021 Water Around The World Read more

The iconic Brooklyn water towers – USA – ech2o newsletter snippet

The iconic Brooklyn water towers – USA – ech2o newsletter snippet

I’ve been meaning to include these in the newsletter ever since Warren Liebold sent us a make your own Brooklyn water tower kit a couple of years ago which now has pride of place in the ech2o office… I assumed

Cath Hassell2 October 7, 2017October 7, 2021 Water Around The World Read more

The Pooh Ponds of Broome – Chris Hassell, Australia

The Pooh Ponds of Broome – Chris Hassell, Australia

As a bird-nerd I can appreciate the water nerdery of this site, and Cath in particular. But I have never heard her mention birds when rabbiting on about sewage. Rather it’s all Wastewater Treatment Plants and mega-litres of water and

Cath Hassell2 June 6, 2017June 23, 2017 Water Around The World Read more

World drought situation – worldwide – ech2o newsletter snippet

World drought situation – worldwide – ech2o newsletter snippet

Virtually every day there is news about drought in some area of the world. While I was looking for a good image to show this, I chanced upon this interesting blog from summer 2015 about seven recent major droughts . I

Cath Hassell2 April 7, 2017October 7, 2021 Water Around The World Read more
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