Dublin City Council has warned that water levels are now below optimum and is appealing to families to conserve water. more The amount of water currently in Poulaphouca, the city’s largest reservoir, is enough for 114 days, as opposed to 154 days …
In keeping with the broad theme of water issues, the ‘Silent Evolution’ is an inspired underwater installation…The people in “The Silent Evolution” were created from live casts of a wide sample of people, most of them locals—including Lucky, a M…
Mr Phil Hogan TD, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, has announced the publication of the first review of the Water Services Investment Programme 2010-2012. The €350m investment (EU co-funded under the BMW Regional OP 20…
“But, so long as the stream keeps flowing, I don’t quite see how we and our neighbours can be metered and taxed for leading it through our houses on its way to the sea. Sheep shit notwithstanding, I treasure our do-it-yourself water supply and the…
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El Paso has succeed in reducing their household water consumption to 1/4 that of the rest of the US. With no other choice but to conserve, what did they do? – residents paid $1 per square foot of garden that they replaced with less thirsty varitie…
Ken Robinson makes a convincing argument that we are not only facing a twin ‘economic and environmental crisis’ but also a ‘crisis of human resources’. Time for an ‘education revolution’ based on fostering creativity and innovation…
What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier, returning to the range, admire? Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator’s projection:…
Just came across an article in today’s Irish Times on potential exploitation of shale gas deposits in the Lough Allen Basin of NW Ireland. These deposits have recently become economically and technologically viable due to the development of the ‘h…
