by admin | Nov 1, 2017 | Blog, Home page content
Just over a week ago, up to a million Americans were without drinking water, four weeks after Hurricane Maria ripped through parts of the country. Many residents in Puerto Rico were still without basic supplies a month after the horrific storm hit. Initially bottled...
by admin | Oct 19, 2017 | Blog, Home page content
Ensuring the food we eat is safe and fit for purpose is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve. The rapid growth of populations and demand for meat means chickens are being intensively reared and the most recent ‘food scare’ was the revelation that chlorine-rinsed...
by admin | Oct 16, 2017 | Blog, Home page content
There has been a lot in the news recently about epidemics – why did Ebola get out of control so fast? Will we suffer a world-wide flu epidemic and what about emerging problems like MERS and Lassa Fever? At the start of this year an organisation was launched to lead...
by admin | Oct 12, 2017 | Blog, Home page content
The City of Cape Town anticipates that its supply of municipal water will run out around March 2018, Mayor Patricia de Lille said last week. “If consumption is not reduced to the required levels of 500 million litres of collective use per day, we are looking at about...
by admin | Aug 15, 2017 | Home page content, News
Let’s talk about industrialised agriculture. It’s a user of water on a vast scale, as we know. What may be less well known is that water is applied at different times during a growing cycle and at different levels of cleanliness. That may sound shocking at first until...
by admin | Aug 6, 2017 | Home page content, News
A commonly heard statistic is that over a billion people in the world don’t have access to clean, safe water. A less well-known statistic is that almost half the people in the world have routine access to water that is unsafe. Even parts of Europe where ageing water...
