Geography Awareness Week

This year's Geography awareness week is all about fresh water.

For more information go to My Wonderful World website.

Nice weather fo ducks!

It's official, after the glorious summer experienced in the North West of England, the hose pipe ban has been lifted.
To read the full details click this link to United Utilities.

Hosepipe ban?

As of Friday 9 July the North West of England has a hosepipe ban. For what that means click this link to United Utilities.

So as we all go into a desperate decline because we can't hose the garden or the car here are some facts to put it all in perspective:

• 97% of all water is salty
• 2% is locked in snow and ice
• Only 1% is available for us to use
• 66% of all water use goes towards growing food
• In the UK a person uses on average 4645 litres per day - 30% of which is from flushing the toilet
• Millions of the world's poorest people subsist on 23 litres a day
• 46% of people on earth do not have water piped to their homes
• Women in developing countries walk an average of 3.7 miles to get water.

Now, should we really be complaining about a hosepipe ban?

For more information about water read the April 2010 National Geographic.

Urbanisation

Rapid urbanisation in developing nations threatens to trigger a water and sanitation crisis in quickly expanding slums, a report has warned.
Charity WaterAid said chronic water shortages in many of the world's slums were being exacerbated by the arrival of millions of people each week.

Read more on the BBC - click here

To learn more about WaterAid UK click this link.