Ancient and modern
Lima is the capital and largest city in Peru. Its population is more than 10 million, making it about the same size as London, Paris, Seoul, or Chennai.
Read more
The Last Drop
In 2019 ‘sustainability journalist Tim Smedley wrote Clearing The Air. It’s highly rated and was shortlisted for the Royal Society insight investment science book prize 2019.
Read more
Stock picking
Water companies have been busy pandemic planning. And their suppliers have no doubt been busy planning too, trying to work out the likely impact of the COVID-19 situation. There are several pointers now to water use being up overall in spite of commercial and industrial use being down.
Read more
Scenes from a dry city
World Press Photo has awarded the top prize for online video to Scenes from a Dry City. It’s a documentary set in and around Cape Town, South Africa about the water crisis and how the problem is worsening existing social inequalities.
Read more
Black Swan Events
Read more
Wave for water
Read more
World Water Day
The UN News says that water resources are often overlooked, but are an essential part of the solution to climate change.
Read more
It’s alarming
The cost to instrument a network has fallen dramatically. You can get a pressure/flow logger for less than £200, US$260, EUR230 at today’s exchange rates. But what’s not so easy is to make use of the information that’s derived from those devices. Today we want to highlight just one function: alarms.
Read more
Regulators get tough
The UK’s regulator is seen as having been tough on UK water companies in its recent price determination. Headlines such as ‘It’s about time Ofwat got tougher on ‘game-playing’ water companies‘ suggest that there isn’t much public sympathy. But Northumbrian Water, Anglian Water, Yorkshire Water and Bristol Water are all appealing. Thames Water, who had […]
Read more
Save water, drink beer
Glasgow, Scotland craft beer brand Brewgooder has come up with a cunning plan.
Read more