With summer coming earlier and lasting longer each year, we can comfortably predict the annual summer headlines ‘A Water Meter for Every Home’ covering many a front page whenever no fresh photographs of Posh and Becks are to be had.
… Watering down guidelines Alice Onwordi | 20th June 2008 Comment Water Meter Incentives Ofwat Fresh Water Economics Green Living Climate SOS_4.jpg …
The shutoff of water to thousands of Detroit residents, the proposed privatization of the water system, and the diversion of the system's revenue to banks are possible, writes Pete Dolak, because water - the most basic human need - has become a means to extract profit from the City's people.
… Detroit: what happens when water is a commodity, not a human right Pete Dolack | 19th August 2013 Comment USA Water Economics Finance … dwb-shu-on-megaphone-cut.jpg The Detroit Water Brigade crew help out. Photo: Meeko A. …
Water demand is a major blind spot on the road to net zero.
… Adam Wentworth | 7th December 2022 | Comment Water Management Economics Editor’s Picks 26093981360_57794be4a5_c.jpg Water demand is a major blind spot on the road … The Rhine, a vitally important economic waterway, has suffered months without …
Social inequalities are exacerbating urban water crises more than climate change or population growth.
… April 2023 | News Elites Social Inequality Water Scarcity Capitalism Economics Editor’s … Social inequalities are exacerbating urban water crises more than climate change or … growth. Rich elites are overconsuming water for their own personal leisure and …
Rio Tinto has finally admitted that its local operator QIT Minerals Madagascar has breached an environmental buffer zone at its Mandena site.
… waste from entering the adjacent lakes and waterways. The company admits that this … with the risk of toxic effects on local water sources. Accidents happen Rio Tinto/QMM … elevated uranium levels in the local water as high as 50 times the World Health …
Animal agriculture is the second biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, and responsible for up to 18 percent of emissions worldwide.
… of meat. While carbon dioxide production and water consumption come to our minds first, … of land needed, or the pollution of the air, water, and land. There is also the feed the … meat production creates pressure on crop and water resources, not to mention the huge …
Despite all the hype that fracking the UK will mean cheaper energy bills, it is increasingly clear that the opposite is the case, writes Lesley Docksey. And who will pay the cost? Taxpayers, energy users, and the environment ...
… Defra, compensation to farmers whose stock, water and land have been poisoned - except it … every single chemical found in your poisoned water corresponds to the combination used by … will pick up the bill. Costs of clean water We will pay, via our water rates, for …
Mining group Rio Tinto has pulled back from sensitive environmental zone in Madagascar and admits there was no tailings dam.
… to protect “sensitive zones,” such as water bodies, from any harmful impacts of the … the statutory 80 metre buffer zone for all water bodies near the site. Nor does it … has no confinement of radionuclide-enriched waters from its mine tailings. Changes …
Flood wardens in Yorkshire encourage communities to take preparatory, defensive action.
… the town from outside assistance. The rushing waters clear as suddenly as they appear, but … as the height of the river or the rate of waterflow, or the amount of rain coming … a bank of volunteers who come and divert the water using large rubber bricks made from …
George Monbiot: We must accept that meat and dairy are extravagances we can no longer afford.
… would have on the climate, on pollution and water usage. Impact In terms of the climate, … agriculture has a profound effect on both water quality and water usage. Poore calculated that by not …
The beauty industry produces over 421,000 pounds of waste daily while stylists experience deadly effects. This shouldn’t be the reality.
… waste, and plastic bottles to landfills and water systems. With 59 percent of Americans … the use of sulfate-free products and offering water bottle refill stations. Zero waste For … bars, to avoid plastic bottle usage. Water waste Each time a stylist washes their …
The National Trust said the project at Holnicote Estate in Somerset is the first of its kind for the UK.
… stream, and aims to reconnect the water courses with their original flood … with climate change - by slowing the flow of water. It could help with other impacts of … change such as drought by holding more water in the landscape, the Trust said. And it …
House prices could fall 7% near fracking rigs, according to the 'secret' Defra report on fracking in rural areas, only published in full after a legal battle, while leakage of waste water could damage human health and contaminate food.
… after a legal battle, while leakage of waste water could damage human health and … could affect human health through polluted water or the consumption of contaminated … in the US. Even if contaminated surface water did not directly impact on …
Ban on heavy fuel oil transportation from Arctic waters is on the agenda of the world's shipping experts.
… on heavy fuel oil transportation from Arctic waters is on the agenda of the world's … of heavy fuel oil, as fuel, from Arctic waters, and the identification of measures … to the Arctic. Already banned in Antarctic waters and in the waters around Svalbard , HFO …
A second canal joining the Pacific and Atlantic oceans is planned for Nicaragua, writes Nathan Wood. But the gigantic project is raising growing fears due to a grossly unfair contract, glaring failures of process, close links to the Chinese government, and its enormous - but uncosted - ecological impacts.
… August 2014 News Nicaragua China Transport Water Forests Economics lake-nicaragua-cut.jpg … project involves the construction of two deep water ports, two free-trade shipping zones, an … Nicaragua's largest source of fresh water - Lake Nicaragua. At either end of the …
Pollution, potting and community action at Lyme Bay all demonstrate that we need to think synoptically about living systems.
… Life MPA Marine Protected Areas South West Water Pollution Potting Fishing Editor’s Picks … part of the filtration process in some waste-water treatment plants. The local water company, South West Water (SWW), …
'By bringing back the beaver, and allowing our rivers to freestyle through the landscape, we could revive these incredible ecosystems.'
… January 2020 News Beavers Resiling Rivers Water Marine Life Biodiversity Change Makers … and a new pattern of streams appears when the waters subside. When plants gained a foothold … vertebrates, would have clambered through the waterweed and maybe occasionally wriggled onto …
New Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) watchdog warns of impending tipping points and demands action from UK Government.
… Government. Toxic air that harms health, and water pollution from sewage and farming must … worrying and persistent declines in air and water quality, species and habitats. Slow The … Addressing the crisis in England’s air, water, landscapes and seas should have the …
Research expedition will see campaigner Laura Sanderson swim nearly 1,000 km through all fifteen of the UK’s national parks.
… organisation have teamed-up to test the water at some of the country’s most iconic … national parks. She will collect hundreds of water samples which will be analysed at Bangor … We were horrified when we were told the water we’d collected along the way had …
Producing vegan fashion can be just as harmful to the natural environment as traditional fashion.
… popularity of vegan fashion is only growing. Water waste However, vegan fashion is just the … cotton production uses 2,700 litres of water for one shirt. To put that into perspective, that’s enough water for you to drink for two years. The …
You can actually be better off, healthier and happier with less consumption, says Munasinghe. And it's not just rich countries that need to change, he told Noah Sachs - poor countries too must develop sustainably, or the Earth's resources will simply run out.
… 1) greenhouse gas emissions 2) energy use 3) water use 4) land and biomass use 5) ores, … some portion of the world's supply of food, water, timber, minerals, and other resources? … to food, say 2,000 calories per day, and water, say 10 liters per day. These are well …
As Israel pursues its war on Gaza with ever-increasing ferocity, and with 25% of Gaza's people forced from their homes, what's the final objective? It's unthinkable that Israel's aim is to 'cleanse' the territory of its people, seize its vast gas reserves, and annex some of the Med's hottest real estate. Isn't it?
… essential civilian infrastructure - such as water supply pipes, sewage works, water pumping stations. There is no reason to … rather more than just put the lights out. Any water pumps or sewage works that have somehow …
As invasive water hyacinth chokes fishing communities, the World Bank launches a third phase of investment to try and restore the degraded lake
… As invasive water hyacinth chokes fishing communities, the … near Kisumu in western Kenya, is choked with water hyacinth, putrid algae and other … lake, Victoria is an important source of water and hydropower, a reservoir of …