Rainwater Harvesting is a subject close to the heart of many who seek a way of living off the grid. A full FAQ (Frequently asked questions) on rainwater harvesting has just been released by Water Rhapsody and can be found at Rainwater Harvesting FAQ Over recent years water costs combined with sewerage rates have escalated [...]

Kajiado, Kenya: The Maasai are struggling with frequent water shortages which are threatening their way of life. But one women’s group is taking action. Ebby Nanzala Wamatsi – Women News Network – WNN Day in and day out from the months of March through to June, grey and white clouds float across the blue skies [...]

Amidst the Chihuahuan Desert, Abe and Josie built a home out of dirt, designed a wind turbine from scrap parts, and raised their newborn without diapers and other conveniences. When their first hand sculpted house went up for sale a couple of years ago in Far West Texas, I was one of many people interested [...]

Imagine H2O, a national non-profit, inspires and empowers people to solve water problems. They offer prize competitions and incubation and mentoring support to help innovators and entrepreneurs turn great ideas into real-world solutions that ensure available clean water and sanitation.

Virtual water is the amount of water that is embedded in food or other products needed for its production. Trade in virtual water allows water scarce countries to import high water consuming products while exporting low water consuming products and in this way making water available for other purposes [World Water Council]. For example, the [...]

Despite the fact that logging rates in the Amazon skyrocketed in June, the figures put out by the Deforestation Detection in Real Time (DETER) and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) say that it looks like 2008-2009 was a great year for the rainforests, with logging rates dropping 46%. Could this rate – as [...]

Grey water is the solution to the problems relating to demand and supply management of water not only in South Africa, but worldwide. Supply management of water is water supplied by the municipality to your doorstep. The supply of water is severely stressed in South Africa. In simple terms, we do not have any more [...]

A water footprint is quite simply the volume of water used. At the individual level, this is expressed in litres. But at the national level, this becomes complex – The water footprint of a nation is equal to the use of domestic water resources, minus the virtual water export flows, plus the virtual water import [...]