Water
Gathering and Treating It
The End We Start From – New Movie Starring Jodie Comer
A new movie starring Jodie Comer explores what could happen if a flood takes the UK off-grid. Directed by rising star Mahalia Bello the film is set in a world t...
Simple 5kWh Microhydro System: A Budget-Friendly Guide
A 5 kWh microhydro system offers an affordable and simple way to meet the essential energy needs of a small household. In places with little or no sun in winter...
Water Coma Is a Real Thing
Also known as water poisoning, water coma results from intoxication due to a disruption of brain function caused by drinking too much water. Doing so increases ...
Off-Grid farm to double in size – if it can raise money by 26 April
Plotgate Farm in Somerset UK is becoming a remarkable success story for its pioneering, community agro-ecological style of farming. It was designed from the get...
No Directors Prosecuted for Deliberate Sewage Dumping by Southern Water
One of Britain’s biggest water companies was fined £90m ($126m) today for deliberate dumping of “billions of litres” of sewage into the North ...
All 16 Quarterfinalists in $9 Million Solar Desalination Prize – listed
The lineup for a Solar Desalination Prize has been announced by the US Energy Dept. Our pick is the Solar Aqua Flex: Off-Grid Solar Still from Vanderbilt Univer...
5 Ways To Purify Water in 2 Minutes or Less
By Richard Douglas Water helps everything grow and thrive – including bacteria, viruses, and parasites! Water-related illness is a huge concern, especiall...
Should I live on a boat?
WHATis it really like living on a canal boat or on the river? So many of us have wondered if it would be a way of avoiding a huge rent bill and staying closer t...
Gadget produces solar power and clean water
Multi-membrane solar panel uses waste heat to warm water and thereby purify it – Saudi researchers hope to ready it for commercial rollout soon...
Raw Water – big money – but should we take it?
It’s called water consciousness – a movement of people who drink unfiltered, unsterilised spring water and even rain water. Why? Well, for the suppo...
Zero Mass Water
A regular supply of drinking water is the holy grail for off-grid living. If you can get a bare minimum of water and heating of some sort, you can live anywhere...
Great Barrier Reef – Coral Spawning
The world’s biggest living organism, the Great Barrier Reef, has held its annual Coral Spawning event, with trillions of eggs and sperm simultaneously rel...