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Why Sewage Offers A Fire Service Solution To Drought
Why Sewage Offers A Fire Service Solution To Drought The importance of water efficiency is something that households and companies alike have only occasionally thought a lot about. Years like 1976 and 1984 stood out because they produced ...
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Global Water Sustainability Organisation Launched
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is set to be the location for the headquarters of a new global water sustainability organisation, with the aim being to integrate and enhance efforts to secure water resources around the world. According to Arabian ...
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Resolving Water Crisis ‘As Important As Reaching Net Zero’
Resolving the water crisis is as essential to the world as reaching net zero carbon emissions and reducing the impact of climate change. This is according to the British Standards Institute (BSI) together with Waterwise, which released a ...
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Why A Quarter of the World Faces Extreme Water Stress
It goes without saying that water is essential for life, but for a quarter of the global population, there are times in the year when there is barely enough of it to go around. According to data from Aqueduct, the World Resources Institute ...
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Have you Been Inspired By World Water Week?
This year’s World Water Week has just come to close, taking place in Stockholm (and online) between August 20th and 24th, focusing on identifying innovative solutions to tackle the water crisis head on and ensure that we can continue to ...
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Spotlight On: Data Centres & Their Water Footprint
Technology is the driving force behind life in the 21st century and there can certainly be no denying the fact that it is incredibly beneficial in all sorts of ways, but as the impacts of climate change are felt increasingly day by day, now is ...
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Top Tech to Tackle the Water Crisis Head On
There are serious pros and cons to living in the 21st century. One of the biggest cons, of course, is the cataclysmic cloud of climate change that hangs over our heads like the sword of Damocles, a very real existential threat that will only become ...
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Hot Topic: River Pollution in the UK
Water quality in the UK is fast becoming one of the biggest issues that the country has to face, with pollution from a range of different sources increasingly taking its toll on the natural environment. Sewage, agricultural runoff and pollution ...
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Severe Water Stress Predicted For 7 England Regions By 2030
Despite the fact that the UK has a famously damp climate, it too will be affected by the water crisis, which is fast tightening its grip on countries all over the world, with water resources rapidly dwindling in the face of climate change, ...
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Discover Your Local Water Gaps Using the World Water Map
Knowledge is power, as the old adage goes, and when it comes to living more sustainably it can be very useful indeed for both individuals and businesses alike to see what issues face their local communities so they can decide where best to focus ...
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£10 Billion Investment In New National Overflows Plan
Water firms around England have issued an apology for not taking swift enough action to address the issue of sewage spills in the natural water environment, announcing this month (May 18th) that the largest ever investment – £10 billion ...
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£2.65 Million Fine for Anglian Water After Sewage Discharge
The Environment Agency has successfully brought a prosecution against Anglian Water following a series of failures on the part of the company to manage and monitor effluent at its Jaywick Water recycling Centre in Essex, with untreated sewage ...
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Govt Bans Plastic Wet Wipes to Reduce Water Pollution
The government has announced it is to ban wet wipes containing plastic in an attempt to reduce the problem of water pollution in England. Environment minister Therese Coffey told BBC News consumers will not be able to purchase the items ...
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New UK Digital Underground Infrastructure Map Launched
A new digital map of the UK’s entire network of underground infrastructure has been launched to help prevent accidents and disruption from taking place in the future. The map includes the likes of sewers, water mains, gas pipes and power ...
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Water Affected By Pet Parasite Treatments, Study Reveals
Water quality in the UK is a hot topic these days, hitting headlines on an increasingly regular basis thanks to issues such as storm overflow discharges, surface water runoff, pesticides, herbicides, algal blooms, drought, flooding… the list ...
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Water Demand Forecast To Outstrip Supply By 2030
As the eve of the UN 2023 Water Conference fast approaches, taking place in New York between March 22nd and 24th, a new report has been published revealing that demand for freshwater will outstrip supply by 40 per cent come 2030… which means ...
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UK Rivers Branded A National Disgrace
Waterways around the UK have been branded a “national disgrace” by the chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts, with various rivers in England now at particular risk from pollution such as plastics, human and farmyard sewage, industrial ...
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Dry February Sparks Fresh England Drought Concerns
The lack of rainfall at the start of this year is causing concern in some quarters, with dry conditions in February and very little in the way of rain forecast for the springtime months potentially leading the country into drought later in the year. ...
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France Now Bracing Itself For Drought Conditions
A few weeks ago, we blogged about the potential for drought conditions in France to persist this year after much of the country saw serious heatwaves in 2022, with experts warning that it’s highly likely that a similar situation will present ...
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Woodland Habitat Flood Defence Project In Hull Now Underway
A new woodland habitat project is now underway in Castlehill in East Hull to help improve local flood defences through a tree-planting programme that will see thousands of tree and hedgerow seedlings established across seven hectares. The overall ...
