Water

19th International Architecture Exhibition: From Venice, a Global Call on the Future of Water

Webuild supports the 'Canal Café' special project, which involves installing a desalination and water filtration system that transforms seawater into fresh water through reverse osmosis — the same sol...

A Month Under the Sea: Divers Lived in a Hyperbaric Chamber for Genoa’s Breakwater

The deep divers spent 28 days in a hyperbaric chamber for the ordnance clearance of Genoa’s Breakwater, working non-stop at a depth of 50 metres thanks to the sophisticated saturation diving technique...

Water in the Desert: The Arabian Peninsula’s Major Water Treatment Plants

From potable water for big cities to snow for the Asian Winter Games in Trojena, the Persian Gulf countries are growing and defying drought by investing in dams, seawater desalination plants and other...

Tackling the Water Crisis in the Mojave Desert: Water Systems for Potable Water

In the Mojave Desert, unique landscapes - from majestic yucca plants to ghost towns - and solutions to the water crisis meet to ensure a sustainable future with potable water systems for water extract...

Water Crisis: USA Searches For Potable Water in Desert and Sewage

In the U.S. Southwest, innovative infrastructure is coping with water crisis and securing water supplies. From Texas to the Mojave Desert in California, sewage treatment plants and potable water extra...

ASCE: U.S. Infrastructure Needs $9 Trillion in Investment

According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the U.S. infrastructure network has improved in the last four years thanks to large investments by the previous administration, but the result rem...

Water Crises: 5 Water Conservation Campaigns that Made History and Reduced Water Footprint

Simple yet incredibly powerful, these campaigns have raised significant consumer awareness, fighting the water crisis, reducing water footprints and generating vital funds for the cause.

Water Crisis: Top 5 Cases of Infrastructure Investment for Water Security

Water infrastructure investment, long-term strategies, citizen involvement to reduce water consumption: this is how Cape Town, Melbourne, Sao Paulo, New Orleans and Las Vegas cope with long periods of...

Water as canvas: from Christo’s Land Art to Anish Kapoor, 5 iconic art installations

When water becomes the canvas for art installations, the result is works destined to go down in history - from Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty to Anish Kapoor's Descension, through to Christo's Floatin...