Visualizing the BP Oil Spill

‘Visualizing the BP Oil Spill’ is a thought provoking website that helps you to appreciate the scale of the BP oil spill, in the Gulf of Mexico, in relation to a part of the world you may be more familiar with - very effective and very scary.

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World Water Day

International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded [...]

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Fancy a Dip? No thanks!

When the first European bathing water directive came into force, in the early 1980s, the UK designated fewer bathing waters than landlocked Luxembourg! The UK has come a long way with regard to recognising the fact that people do swim in the sea, and that our bathing waters need improving. Last night’s BBC Panorama programme [...]

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Overwhelmed by Rubbish

  Nothing hi tech here!  Computer parts from Western Europe and the US lie scattered at a dump in Ghana. Such disposal serves to created toxic dumps that poison the local population. With water resources under increasing pressure, should we be treating natural water resources with such disrespect? Photograph: Francisco Bonilla/Reuters Paradise ruined! The above picture shows marine [...]

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