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The next generation of water protectors
Amber RobinsonOctober 2017
Clean water, access to sanitation, and an understanding of good hygiene practices are essential for the survival and development of children. So who better to empower to tackle local and global water issues than young people themselves?
As the leaders of tomorrow, young people are going to be key to achieving the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, including Goal 6 – acce....
As the leaders of tomorrow, young people are going to be key to achieving the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, including Goal 6 – acce....
Water quality issues in Germany and the UK – similarities and differences
Siegfried GendriesAugust 2017
n the UK it is an offence to supply water unfit for human consumption under Section 70 of the Water Industry Act (1991) and similar legislation applies in Germany. Water supplied to buildings must be pure and suitable for drinking purposes without any health risks, containing neither pathogens nor other substances in health-damaging concentrations. To meet this legislation water suppliers deliver ....
Do economics and water mix?
Colin GreenJuly 2017
Over many years of giving introductions to economics to water specialists, I learnt that the best way of discouraging them from zoning out was to start by asking how many of them disagreed with at least one of the following statements:
• Astrology offers greater intellectual rigour than economics.
• Accountancy provides greater intellectual excitement than economics.
• Astrology offers greater intellectual rigour than economics.
• Accountancy provides greater intellectual excitement than economics.
Flushing the toilet. How it all started and where are we now?
Peter Curtain, Allerton CommunicationsJuly 2017
It’s something we all use but seldom discuss or even think about. Yet the toilet is the subject of an ongoing revolution aimed at boosting performance, conservation and even luxury. Peter Curtain* reports.
Visiting a farm as a boy in Australia, I had a memorable moment walking back to the house in pitch darkness after nature called. I got lost in a crop field then saw the verand....
The Quest for the Perfect Showerhead
Dr Kemi Adeyeye, University of BathMay 2017
A while ago, I asked some folks at a social event, as one does during a conversation lull, what they thought about their shower (The question was deliberately vague). The main responses were: “I like to showerâ€, “nobody takes baths anymore†and, “I can’t do without a shower in the morningâ€. Not one person said that: “I spend 5 minutes or less in the....
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