Water
Sand Dams: A Local Solution for Clean Drinking Water
Kenya is classified among the most water scarce countries in the world. About 60 percent of Kenyans have improved drinking water access and only 29 percent have access to improved sanitation. The impact of this ...
Rivers connecting countries and people in India
Imagine: You're a taxi driver in India and you pick up four Europeans from the airport for a trip to the foothills of the Himalaya. You quickly learn that whenever the car crosses a bridge, ...
Drones for flood emergency response
Let me introduce myself before I talk about this project - I am Manoranjan Muthusamy, a Sri Lankan born and bred. I studied my BSc in Civil Engineering at the University of Peradeniya, which has ...
Sensing the Ground Climate in Urban Green Spaces and Microclimates
The urban green environment still provides us the natural ecosystem treasures we enjoy such as fresh air, beautiful sceneries, and eye glittering curiosity among others beyond the infrastructure walls surrounding us in cities. This environment ...
A muddy river in a bigger picture
Two years ago I completed my PhD at Cranfield University. Now, after a postdoc at University of Leeds, I am back at Cranfield working on a NERC-funded project on social-economic-environmental trade-offs in managing the land-river ...
Wood in rivers affects invertebrate community traits
The bed of a river is an important habitat for invertebrates with a diverse range of organisms living within and on the sediment. These invertebrate communities may appear similar at different locations within a river ...