Water
Corporate to campus: why returning to university was the right decision
As I prepared to return to university ten years after my first efforts, I must admit I was a little nervous and had prepared myself to be a rare breed on campus: a mature student! ...
Having a positive impact through designing dunnies
Since I was a little kid, I have always had to visit the toilet before speaking publicly; I am Queen of the Nervous Wee. Luckily, growing up in Australia, there was always a toilet available. ...
Flexible courses required for evolving challenges in water management
Today’s environmental water managers must have a thorough understanding of a wide range of topics (from hydraulics to policy and ecology to water resources) and an arsenal of analytical tools with which to tackle them. ...
A sweet deal? Sugarcane, water and agricultural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa
There is a lot of discussion at the moment about the health effects of sugar consumption but have you thought about where your sugar comes from and what impact growing sugar has on the people ...
An aspirational toilet for the most deprived & vulnerable
An estimated 2.4 billion people live without improved sanitation, with one in ten people having no choice but to defecate in the open, and diarrhoea caused by poor sanitation and unsafe water kills 315,000 children ...
Eye in the sky – using drones for environmental monitoring
Adopted in 2000, the Water Framework Directive requires all EU member states to protect and improve the water quality in rivers, lakes, groundwater, transitional and coastal waters, and to protect against pollution and deterioration. But ...