Imelda Marcos: fix the dams
Imelda Marcos has called on the Philippines government to fix the country’s dams and other water infrastructure.
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Water Night. No taps. One bucket.
Between 5pm on Thursday 22 October and 5am on Friday 23 October you’re asked to use one bucket of water, no taps, no showers, no running water. Use of water to protect from COVID or for religious reasons is exempt.
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i2O one of the 10 GreenTech companies to watch
i2O has been named one of the Top 10 Sunday Times Tech Track BGF Green Tech to Watch.
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Leak detection – chasing your tail
£30m is a lot of money. For 100,000 listening devices. That cover just 20% of the network. Will they deliver the leakage reduction anticipated?
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Day Zero – Lessons for New Zealand
New Zealand is widely regarded as having dealt well with one crisis: COVID-19. But there’s another one they appear to be struggling with.
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Ancient and modern
Lima is the capital and largest city in Peru. Its population is more than 10 million, making it about the same size as London, Paris, Seoul, or Chennai.
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Cloud seed idea
Dam levels in Manila, Philippines are below critical levels. Thousands of customers have experienced limited or no water supply for several days after Manila Water cut its services without a prior advisory. Climate phenomenon El Niño has also been blamed.
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All hands to the pump
i2O doesn’t just sell its clients hardware and leave them to get on with it. We know that maintaining an estate of hardware, using it, and getting the most out of it requires time and knowledge that water companies don’t always have.
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Lessons from the sewers
In 1775, London watchmaker Alexander Cumming patented the S-bend. It was a beautifully simple solution to containing sewer smells in the sewer.
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A water shortage…in Sweden?
Drought isn’t something you’d associate with a Northern European country like Sweden. You might, rightly or wrongly, have some other stereotypes in mind like blond hair, Volvos and Abba.
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Water water everywhere, nor any drop to drink
This is a picture of Cape Town and the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. The picture is an image from NASA generated from a Landsat satellite image and elevation data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). The city centre is located at Table Bay (at the lower left), adjacent to Table Mountain, bounded by the sea on two sides.
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News OfWat’s going on
Every 5 years, the UK water regulator Ofwat does a price review which sets limits on charging and sets expectations about what customers get for those prices. The next price review will be in 2019, known as “PR19”. The timetable includes a final methodology statement from Ofwat by the end of 2017, and UK water companies submitting their business plans by September 2018 for review by Ofwat, so the industry is already gearing up for the process.
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Sydney sweats it out
As the UK enjoys another week of freezing winter temperatures, Sydney Australia enjoys (or suffers) a heatwave. news.com.au called it a “summer of sweat”. Sydney has just experienced the hottest January on record with temperatures above 40C.
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The Power of Water
The temperature in India broke records last week. The new record was set in Phalodi, a city in the desert state of Rajasthan, where temperatures reached an astonishing 51 degrees Celsius.
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Heavy rain in Chile leaves 4 million people without drinking water
Santiago, Chile, is a pretty dry place. Average annual rainfall is just 8% of that in Dartmoor, UK. But it’s just experienced an extreme weather event; treatment plants were overwhelmed and drinking water supply had to be cut.
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i2O's oNet system turns legacy infrastructure into smart water networks
i2O has launched oNet, a new suite of technologies providing water utilities with the ability to monitor and manage the pressure and flow of water across their entire networks.
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World leaders say water crisis is number one global risk
Water security, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF), is one of the most tangible and fastest-growing social, political, economic and environmental challenges faced today. Based on its potential impact to Society, WEF ranks the water crisis as the number one global risk.
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Anglian Water selects i2O Water
i2O Water, the Smart Water Networks Company, today announced that it has been appointed by Anglian Water to help meet future demand for water, improve service levels and reduce its environmental impact.
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