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What’s Being Done To Detect Water Leaks?
As we all know, water is one of the most precious resources that we have, but it’s all too easy for us to take it for granted, particularly in developed countries where we simply turn on a tap and out it comes. But access to water is coming ...
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Research: How Can Water Resources Better Support Businesses & Communities?
The water crisis is largely inescapable these days, whether you live in sub-Saharan Africa where millions of people still lack access to basic water and sanitation services, or whether you live in Scotland where water scarcity has started becoming ...
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Does Water Scarcity Make People Consider the Future?
People have a wide variety of needs that must be fulfilled in order to survive, and most people in a crisis situation where the resources needed to fill those needs become scarce can see their behaviour and even their personality change. It is part ...
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How Is Southern Water Reducing Storm Overflows?
One of the hottest topics at the moment where the UK’s waterways are concerned is, of course, storm overflows and how they’re used by water companies up and down the country. While these facilities do have a part to play during periods ...
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Could validating your water bills save you money?
Do you get your water bills validated ? Indeed have you ever considered it ? There’s every chance the answer to those questions is no. Why would you is the question? It just sounds like an unnecessary task that adds admin and hassle that you ...
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Did you know businesses can supply their own water ?
The uptake of water self supply licences by businesses in England, buying water and wastewater services at wholesale prices may turn from a trickle to a flood.
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Why is the Environment Agency Investigating Major Water Companies?
Over the past year, business and residential customers alike have been concerned with reports that 11 major water companies have been discharging raw sewage into Britain’s waterways in a way that might potentially be illegal. With reports ...
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Hot Topic: Water Scarcity in Scotland
Although Scotland is famous for its relatively rainy weather, with the western Highlands on of the wettest places in the whole of the UK, in fact, it seems that the country is still likely to be affected by the climate crisis, with water stress and ...
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UK Water Shortages Off To An Early Start
The summer has really only just begun and much of the UK has experienced some seriously hot weather already, with temperatures for June climbing as high as 30 degrees C in some parts of the country amid a mini-heatwave that has seen water shortages ...
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What Is Managed Aquifer Recharge?
Water supply resilience in the face of drought and climate change is a key concern for the UK, as it is indeed for the rest of the world. It can be easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the UK won’t face water stress and scarcity ...
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Hot Topic: Spain’s Long-Term Drought
Last year, drought conditions in Europe really hit the headlines, with a series of intense heatwaves leading the continent to experience its hottest summer on record which, in turn, resulted in withered crops and premature deaths. Research ...
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The Drop Store: A Stark Image of A Water-Scarce Future
One of the most pressing issues of the climate emergency is the water crisis, but it’s one of the least discussed aspects of climate breakdown… which is certainly interesting when you consider that water underpins every part of life in ...
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Southern Water Outlines Plans To Reduce Storm Overflow Usage
Utility company Southern Water has outlined its plans to reduce the use of storm overflows, as part of a two-year programme to expand both its engineering and nature-based solutions, with the aim being to stop and slow groundwater and surface water ...
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Unlimited Fines for Illegal Sewage Discharges?
The government has announced that it is keen to lift the £250,000 cap for penalties relating to illegal sewage discharges into rivers and the sea carried out by water companies, part of plans to “make polluters pay” that will ...
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No Public Funds For Water Firms ‘Unless Sewage Spills Stop’
A Liberal Democrat-requested amendment to the UK infrastructure bank bill has just been accepted by the government, which means that public taxpayer funds may not be invested in water companies if they don’t put appropriate measures in place ...
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World “On The Cusp” Of Crossing 1.5 C Degree Threshold
A new artificial intelligence-led study has suggested that global warming will reach 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial averages in the early 2030s, no matter how much emissions rise or fall over the next ten years. Carried out by the ...
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Can Dowsing Rods Locate Water Supplies?
Finding water in the 21st century really isn’t all that difficult. We turn on the tap and out it streams, without so much as a second thought. However, it hasn’t always been that easy and – although we’re now blessed with a ...
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How Can Technology Help Address Water Scarcity?
November last year saw the COP27 climate change conference take place in Egypt, with the water crisis taking centre stage on the official agenda of the event for the first time ever… and not without excellent reason. Some 3.6 billion people ...
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Could Ocean Water Vapour Harvesting Ease the Water Crisis?
With freshwater resources around the world coming under increasing pressure from climate change, extreme weather events, urbanisation, water mismanagement and population growth, it’s becoming increasingly important to find ways in which ...
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Miniature Robots to Tackle Water Leak Detection
When it comes to the water crisis, the issues that you’re likely to experience will depend on where you are in the world. Some places have too much water, some places have too little. Others still may have the appropriate amount of water but ...