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Latin America is home to some of the world’s largest megacities: in Mexico City (21m), Buenos Aires (12m) and San Paulo (18m) more than 300 immigrants arrive each week from the countryside in search of a...
Water, in the right amount, of the right quality, at the right place, at the right time, is essential to life all over the earth. Floods, droughts, salination and pollution, along with political claims,...
Explains Advanced Water Treatment, an initiative that includes the use of granular activated carbon, ozone, and various other materials and techniques to improve the taste and odour of drinking water and...
Recounts the history of the Central Valley Project, California, and shows many of its components, including more than 20 dams and reservoirs and 1500 miles of canals, etc. that make up the great water system.
Examines the inherent drawbacks of our Victorian sewage systems and considers alternative ways of treating human waste - low-tech radical methods such as dry composting toilets, oxidisation pools and...
Studies combined heat and power (CHP), and district heating systems, and shows examples of both - Rotterdam, where a centrally situated power station, Schiehaven, has been converted to CHP and supplies how...
Looks at research work funded and supported by the Environment Committee in SERC and explains the need for such research and the practical benefits that can follow. Examines six specific projects in flood...
Looks at two aspects of water supply - the provision of abundant quantities of clean water and the consequences of that water being available. The building of the Thirlmere Dam in the Lake District in the...
Two-part documentary about the importance of soil and water. Part 1: Shows how mismanagement of land can lead to soil erosion and drought. Part 2: Shows methods of alleviating the problem and demonstrates...
Dr Denis Smith, Chairman of the Greater London Archaeology Department, describes how new technology was used to tackle some of London’s main social problems such as providing clean drinking water, hygenic...
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