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‘Splash’ sculpture representing the 1,800 gallons of water consumed each day by the average Californian: #mce_temp_url#

Global leaders convening at the opening session of the 2011 World Water Week in Stockholm (August 21-27) called for increased investments in disaster-resilient infrastructure and smarter water management to avoid droughts, floods and pollution fro…

The Greater Dublin Region water supply project was discussed on Prime Time last night. Issues discussed included water charges, supply options, water mains leakage and demand management. http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1108782

Article by Richard Tol in the Irish Times suggests that household self-installation of water meters is a preferable option over government installed meters outside private properties…. THE GOVERNMENT aims to create a national water utility to in…

Survey shows 69% say it’s likely scientists have falsified global warming research according to a recent US poll. Not sure how much Irish public opinion would reflect these findings but I suspect we’ve a long way to go to build trust in the robust…

Interesting iphone application developed by IBM to enable public to monitor quality of their water bodies. One example of the potential of social media and phone applications to harness people power in the collection of environmental data and to e…

I suspect today’s kids are too savvy to be interested in the ‘hoot’ character in this video…interesting to see how approaches to marketing good environmental behaviour have changed over time!

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Photoessay documenting the difficulty of accessing water for the Turkanas in Kenya due to climate change http://gu.com/p/2at3v

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