February 7, 2013
UK businesses and households are being urged to use rainwater harvesting technology to offset the rise in water bills announced yesterday. The call from energy saving […]
February 6, 2013
According to recent statistics there are still more than a billion people across the globe lacking access to clean drinking water. While researchers and non-government organizations […]
February 5, 2013
Nearly 50 percent of tap water is being stolen, wasted or simply leaking away every year in South Africa, the 30th driest country in the world. […]
February 4, 2013
Utilizing rain barrels in your landscape would seem to be a no-brainer. As Florida’s population grows, the demand on limited water resources steadily increases. Saltwater intrusion […]
February 3, 2013
Faced with chronic water shortages, many residents of Mexico City aren’t waiting for the city government to fix things. They’re turning to the sky. Ari Daniel […]
February 2, 2013
The U.S. has recently experienced the worst drought in decades, yet each year an estimated 1.7 trillion gallons of water leaks from pipes before it can […]
February 1, 2013
Nearly 70 percent of the Earth is covered by water, and the human body is made up of 80 percent water. We invented ways to purify […]
January 30, 2013
The rise in the cost of energy along with the need to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, architects around the world have started to come […]
January 29, 2013
Water is so central to everything we do that, paradoxically, we tend to take it for granted. This is partly because access to steady supplies of […]
January 28, 2013
Water Resources Development and Management minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo has urged residents to take advantage of the rains and harvest rainwater especially in areas like Bulawayo […]
January 27, 2013
Many communities across Africa are directly dependent on wetlands for their survival, while wetlands provide indirect, but crucial services to many others. Yet despite this, these […]
January 26, 2013
UN-Habitat has commenced a new global consultation to reiterate the crucial role of wastewater management in the water cycle and explore policy options for a sustainable […]
January 25, 2013
Collecting and reusing rainwater isn’t just good for the environment. It could also be good for your pocketbook. Recycling rainwater can cut down on your monthly […]
January 24, 2013
Super-small particles of silicon react with water to produce hydrogen almost instantaneously, according to University at Buffalo researchers.
January 23, 2013
Seattle’s Bullitt Center is being heralded as the greenest, most energy-efficient commercial office building in the world. It’s not that the six-story, 50,000-square-foot building is utilizing never-before-seen technology. […]
January 22, 2013
According to one report, “up to 40 percent of China’s rivers were seriously polluted” and “20 percent were so polluted their water quality was rated too […]
January 21, 2013
A great concept at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show is the Mercedes-Benz Ener-G-Force: a zero-emissions vehicle with zero tolerance for citizen misbehaviour. The Ener-G-Force is […]
January 20, 2013
Thirst may bring technical progress to a halt, UN experts warn in their report “Managing Water under Uncertainty and Risk”. The authors of this document are […]