WATEF Blog Archive

Water may just be H2O, but that doesn’t mean that we all see it the same way. There are clear differences between groups of people in how they view and use water. This was well demonstrated recently by Faith in Water, a Thames Water, London Sustainability Exchange (LSx) and UCL study, which explored attitudes, beliefs and practices around water use with seven different faith communities in ....

Growing up in south-eastern Australia, I remember when water supply became a big issue. It was the ‘big dry’ of 1967, and you can gauge its severity on this ‘drought map’.
As spring became summer, reservoir levels around Melbourne began dropping. For weeks people hoped vainly for the sort of ‘cool change’ that in those parts turn skies from dazzling blue ....

A few UK shower facts. (From At Home with Water from the Energy Savings Trust). The average person in the UK uses 150 litres of water a day, 47 litres of which are for bathing. 2 billion litres of water are used in the UK’s showers every day. The average shower lasts 7.5 minutes. The average person runs the shower for 1.75 minutes before getting under it. (A future blog subject that’....