Uni bans bottled water

In a world first, the University of Canberra has banned the sale of bottled water across their entire campus. Staff and students will be able to drink free water from water bubblers installed around the campus. Should we not do the same, but accross the entire UK University sector? If the answer is ‘no’, because university retailers fear [...]

Read Full Post »

Organisational Arrangements and Drinking Water Quality

You might like to know about a paper I recently had published in the Journal ‘Water Science and Technology: Water Supply’. The paper discusses the findings of a research project which explored the impact of varying organisational arrangements on drinking water quality in England and Wales, and the Republic of Ireland. It is established that [...]

Read Full Post »

Drinking Water – One Billion and Counting!

‘Charity: water’ and ‘WaterAid‘ are non-profit organizations bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. It is hard for those of us with access to plentiful and clean supplies of drinking water to imagine what it must be like to be thirsty on a daily basis. We just turn on a tap and [...]

Read Full Post »