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The Hill House in Helensburgh, one of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s finest buildings, is under threat from longstanding issues with “excessive water ingress.” The water had significantly damaged the indoors of the home due to the caretakers not using “traditional weathering details” to protect the home from water leaking in. For more on this story, click […]
UK company Highland Springs are seeing sales for their bottled water outdo the sales of fizzy drinks for the very first time. As the demand for bottled water rises, Highland Spring is planning to invest £20 million to speed up production of bottled water. For more details on this story, please click here:: Highland Spring […]
Zenith International, a specialist food and drink industry consultancy, released data that reveals that the United Kingdom drank over 3 billion water drinks in 2014. Eighty-five percent of the total consumption was attributed to plain bottled water alone. The average amount of water drinks a UK resident purchased is over 40 liters per year. For […]
Residents in the UK now have another drinking water option. The Hygea Water Systems can filter tap water of its metal and chemical content without frequently needing a change of filter. It is also less costly than purchasing bottled water in the long term. For more on this option, please click here:: UK Residents to […]
Six thousand households in Lanarkshire went without water after a number of complaints regarding the taste and smell. Fortunately, the majority of homes had their water service back on twenty-four hours after Scottish Water brought the water addressed the issue and brought the water back to “its normal high quality.” For more on this story, […]
Scientists and farmers in Lima, Peru are doing whatever it takes to fight their drought. The recent idea is to utilize a long-unused system of canals to help deliver water to dry areas. These canals are said to predate the Inca Empire and originate in the mountains above Lima. For more on this plan, please […]
The country of Israel has overcome its severe drought conditions from last year by collecting 600 million cubic meters of water through desalination. By using desalinated water for drinking and recycling wastewater for irrigation, Israel has nearly obliterated any dependence on rainwater. Read on for more on this story:: Desalination capacity maxed out but Israel […]
Climate change and other factors have caused countries throughout the world to experience water related troubles over recent years. Australia suffered a country-wide drought from 1995 to late-2009. Spain’s northeastern region experienced a drought that required them to import water from France. Northern India’s groundwater loss was so large that it could be seen from […]
The four-plus year drought has forced officials in the state of California to order farmers to reduce their water consumption for the first time in over a century. Water rights holders in the Sacremento, San Joaquin, and delta watersheds will be forced to stop retrieving water from those streams. While this move may seem local, […]
Do you know how to read your water meter? Don’t worry, many don’t. Many water meters just track the total amount of water being used, but doesn’t tell consumers how much of that total water is allotted for showering, washing clothes, watering the lawn, etc. A new wave of water meters hopes to shed light […]
