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Water demand and drought: how can we reduce demand to address multiple socio-environmental crises?

Claire HoolohanAlison BrowneJoseph Cahill By Claire Hoolohan, Alison Browne and Joseph Cahill Filed Under: All posts, Cities and Environment, Energy and Environment, Science and Technology Posted: September 23, 2022

Water demand and drought: how can we reduce demand to address multiple socio-environmental crises? Droughts are becoming more severe across the UK and Europe, not least as a result of climate change, and there are renewed debates about sustainability and continuation of water supplies. How people use water in their homes has consequences for water […]

Tagged With: environment, sustainability, sustainable consumption, water management

We need creative responses to water stress and climate change, and we need them now.

Claire Hoolohan By Claire Hoolohan Filed Under: Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, Energy and Environment Posted: July 18, 2018

As the threat of drought becomes a reality in the UK, Claire Hoolohan Research Fellow at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, considers how we might change the way society uses water. With hosepipe bans being introduced how do we look at future water supplies Water shortage, or water scarcity, is about how much […]

Tagged With: Business Energy & Industry, Cities and Environment, Clean water, climate action, climate change, consumption, Digital Health, drought, energy, environment, innovation, sustainability, Tyndall, water management

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The UK must improve water management in the face of droughts

Claire Hoolohan By Claire Hoolohan Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Energy and Environment Posted: May 11, 2017

As the threat of drought rises in the UK, Claire Hoolohan Research Associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, considers how we might change the way society uses water. The UK is braced for drought, and though weather is part of drought, so is the amount of water used by people going about […]

Tagged With: droughts, environment, environmental policy, water, water management, weather

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Managing water demand

Alison Browne By Alison Browne Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: July 14, 2015

The water industry has tried to manage consumption through technological ‘fixes’. But only by understanding how and why water is used can demand be reduced, argues Dr Alison Browne. For many years the mismatch between the demand for water and its available supply was ‘solved’ by the industry through engineering or technological solutions, including mega-projects […]

Tagged With: climate change, energy consumption, environment, gardening, resource management, washing, water, water management, water use

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Pickles-Paterson floods spat highlights true top-down nature of UK policymaking

Danny Fitzpatrick By Danny Fitzpatrick Filed Under: Science and Technology Posted: February 13, 2014

A top-down centralised decision-making process and government functions working in silos are not new features of UK politics, writes Dr Daniel Fitzpatrick. But as communities across the UK experience misery due to flooding, it seems these deeply entrenched pathologies of policymaking are increasingly out of step with the ‘wicked’ issues that society is facing. The […]

Tagged With: cameron, CLG, enviornment agency, floods, paterson, pickles, policy, rain, storms, water, water management

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