Where water is more valuable than gold
Drought has hit regions of India so severely that water is more valuable than gold. Sparse rainfall, record temperatures and over abstraction by an ever increasing population...
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World Water Day 22nd March 2019 – Leaving no one behind
Leaving no one behind is the target to ensure availability and sustainable management of water for all by 2030. Whoever you are, wherever you are, water is your human right. ...
Why the earth is cracking under stress of groundwater abstraction
Problem! Cracks are appearing in the Arizona desert in the US. Some fissures can be up to several miles long and 30 feet deep and they appear to be growing. Joseph Cook from...
Legislation for intelligent design
The government recently introduced legislation to encourage design of repairable products! What is it about business now that requires governments to legislate for...
Political and Climate Change Spin!
by Phil Selwyn – Technical Director of Water Powered Technologies Following the recent warning/update from the United Nations, the most poignant impact to me was not...
Impacts of Global Warming
Global warming is already underway with consequences that must be faced today as well as tomorrow. Evidence of changes to the Earth’s physical, chemical and biological...
some water delivery solutions may be doing more harm than good
There’s a World Water Crisis and some of the current water delivery solutions may be causing more harm than good. 13 of the World’s largest 37 aquifers are under...
World Water Day – 22nd March 2018
Water Powered Technologies supports World Water Day on the 22nd March 2018. The day is about focusing attention on the importance of water. The theme for World Water Day 2018...
Why women in the developing world care about water
With the anniversary of the 1918 Suffrage Act and reflecting on the progress our society has made in the last 100 years, it is worth recognising the problems women have in the...