An indication of drought conditions is when rivers and streams run at lower than normal levels. In the USA the USGS (United States Geographical Survey) provide a daily graphical report showing a map of the USA and highlighting areas of drought. The map is color-coded to highlight the relative severity of the drought.As an example […]
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 […]
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 […]
I have created 12 different pond calculators described briefly below. These calculators work in Microsoft Excel and are fully editable. You can get them FREE here.List of the 12 Calculators————————–1. Complete Pond Pump Selector… Microsoft Excel file to help you calculate anything about pumps. There are 34 important requirements in specifying pond pumps … pump […]
Here in Johannesburg it hasn’t stopped raining for quite some time … while we expect thunderstorm at this time of year the amount and frequency of rain has been unusual. Nevertheless this is good not only for watering gardens thoroughly and saving scarce tap water but it is also filling all the countries’ dams […]
I’ve just been watching the chaos created by the severe snowstorms in America’s Mid West and it alerts me to how severe those winters can be in the Northern Hemisphere. I’m lucky in that I live in South Africa and miss these extreme conditions.It brings me onto the topic of hot water because what’s better […]
While it it is not strictly water gardening many people start the fascinating journey into the world of water gardening and fish pond keeping by installing a simple wall fountain or other type of recirculating self contained fountain. Lightweight wall fountains are really easy to install since they are made from fiberglass and don’t need […]
Unless your a seriously dedicated koi pond keeper (who wants nothing else but water, oxygen and koi in the pond) you will probably want to have some plants in your garden pond. How do you choose which ones will suit your pond?Well there are 4 basic types: Marginal plants, bog plants, deep water waterlilies […]
Every fish pond needs a pump which in most cases will be submersed within the pond (called a submersible pump).The pump is used to circulate water through an installed biofilter so that the pond water contaminated by fish waste products can be purified. The pump circulates pond water which contains dissolved oxygen required by the […]
