Despite excellent domestic tap water sanitation systems in place in most developed countries bottled water sales continue to climb dramatically. This one however takes the cake:
In a 12-month period in 2006 and 2007, Warwickshire County Council spent £118,350 - more than £2,000 a week - on drinking water. Read the rest of this tale here […]
Everybody today is acutely aware of the need to save energy for the good not only of our pockets but for the good of the whole planet whose future is threatened by climate change associated with higher and higher carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere much of which is the direct result of generating energy.Below […]
Have you ever washed your hands and the water feels a bit slimy? On the other hand have you ever washed your hands and it is difficult to make a lather?You probably have experienced both these situations. In the first case you were exposed to SOFT water and in the latter case you washed your […]
A good article from Eskom begins with … It takes a 3kW, 150l hot water cylinder (HWC), or geyser, element to heat the water from 20 ºC to 65 ºC in the order of 2 hours 40 minutes and consumes about 7.838kWh and at an average cost of 35c/kWh which amounts to R 2.74… read […]
Water is a scarce resource in our country and more and more countries are waking up to the fact that water is in limited supply.One of the major uses for domestic water is toilet flushing. Typically a toilet cistern will hold between about 8 litres and 12 litres. In the UK it is estimated that […]
About 20% of a household’s power consumption bill is for the heating of water. Most of this heated water is stored in cistern or storage tank systems which lose between 10% and 20% of the heat used to increase the temperature of water from the ambient temperature to the selected hot water temperature.With such a […]
For heating water in a household system solar energy would be captured and used to heat the water in the water cistern. The use of solar energy would be supplemented when necessary by conventional use of electricity or a by a fuel heated boiler system as shown in the sketch.The diagram above is from the […]
Unless you’ve been in another world you will have heard of the critical power shortages experienced in South Africa which resulted in mines closing down which in turn drove up the Platinum price by 30%. The Government is now driving alternative water heating systems using solar power … a resource which is plentiful in our […]
There’s a very interesting competition being run by The Environmental Working Group in the USA. Here’s the link …
The competition is designed to find out … What’s in your bottled water?Help us study bottled water labels and win a 100% organic cotton shopping bag and a Klean Kanteen water bottle! Entries should be […]
Take a read of this email I received this morning from a visitor to my water gardening website … a spine-chilling tale of a frog and a fish.
“I went into the garden today and a frog had attached itself to the face of a Koi with it’s ‘hands’ (pushed up to the elbows) embedded into […]
