Water

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...

Buenos Aires Against Water Pollution: How To Protect The Rio de la Plata Basin

While a canal turns red from industrial waste dumping, the Riachuelo River is being revived thanks to a massive water a vital infrastructure for protecting the Río de la Plata Basin.

In Canada, ‘A City Within a City’: Toronto’s Waterfront Redevelopment Takes a New Project

With an investment of CA$1 billion, Toronto’s waterfront will be ready for the construction of thousands of homes on an abandoned industrial site that will also have the largest park in a generation, ...

6 Record-Breaking Dams: From the Swiss Alps to China (Including the Biggest Dam in the World)

While the Rogun Dam is under construction in Tajikistan, set to become the tallest dam in the world, let’s explore other dams that stand out for their record-breaking water energy technology and for t...