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Archive for the ‘water’ Category
Floods, Drought, Innovation and UpStream Thinking
May 3rd, 2012 |
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One month of heavy rain is welcome, but unless we have a particularly sodden summer and, more importantly, a damp-and-dreary winter, supplies could start to look very sparse indeed. That’s particularly true in the south and east of England, which depend on underground aquifers to store a large proportion of water supplies. The levels in these aquifers rely on winter rain to drip through the rocks above. Summer rain tends to run off, evaporate or get absorbed by growing plants. So the U.K problem is not how much rain falls from the sky but how effectively we capture and utilise that water. Yet there has been an unwillingness in recent years to invest in big infrastructure.
UK Plans for sea energy device Searaser
January 24th, 2012 |
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Energy firm Ecotricity is developing an innovation called Searaser – which they believe could solve two of the biggest challenges facing renewable energy – cost and variable output.
Brits using nearly as much water showering as bathing
November 23rd, 2011 |
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The figures for power showers are even starker. An eight-minute power shower uses 136 litres of hot water – nearly twice as much energy and water as taking a bath – and costs around 63 pence per shower. A typical family using a power shower, therefore, is using 200,000 litres of hot water per year, at a hefty cost of £918 per year, according to the report.
Growing energy demand adds stress to water supply
August 29th, 2011 |
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