Browse by subject: Transport & travel: Inland waterways (40)
Welcome water work
04 Nov 2006
Scotland, it seems, is showing the way on water. The Scottish Parliament has become the first in Europe to pass a...
Waters of the intifada
09 Nov 2006
Israeli occupation has turned a growing number of Palestinians into grassroots environmentalists, reports Jessica...
Turning the tide
06 Nov 2006
Nearly all of our bathing areas have been given a pass mark, but more than one in five are still in the 'could do better' category...
Trickle down effect
11 Oct 2007
The world is running out of water: it's time we designed for a drier future.
Trading on the clean air model
05 Nov 2006
The concept of so-called pollution trading, evidently very much in vogue, is also being tried out as a route to improving...
Ton up for urban otters
06 Nov 2006
A fleeting glimpse of the elusive otter in the wild can be one of those magical countryside moments but otters...
Toilet conversion opportunity
06 Nov 2006
Builders in drought-prone Santa Fe, New Mexico, now have to earn planning permission by meeting a toilet quota...
The water's lovelier
04 Nov 2006
Thanks to “a massive improvement in coastal water quality”, 60 more beaches in the UK are worthy of inclusion...
Sweet Thames - run not so softly
05 Nov 2006
Tried to get down to the Thames recently? Londoners may have the cleanest major river in Europe, but getting access...
Specs on the beach?
06 Nov 2006
As with the rivers, so with the sea - Britain’s beaches are cleaning up their image. The Good Beach Guide 2002...
Shiver-pool
06 Nov 2006
Not sure if you’d fancy a dip in the Mersey - or the Manchester Ship Canal? Both feature among a handful of...
Run off the road
04 Nov 2006
To get a better grasp of one aspect of water quality management, the government has commissioned a three year study...
Root canal
09 Nov 2006
Hate seeing those water wasting irrigation schemes that help bring lush vegetation to arid areas? So, it seems, do the Chinese...
Liquid energy
17 Dec 2008
Waterways to host £150 million green energy project
Long left dormant since their heyday before the railway...
Just how hard is it to...halve our water use?
30 Oct 2006
It’s no use going with the flow, as Esther Maughan McLachlan reports.
High hopes for rainwater harvesting
17 Jan 2007
Many African countries could get enough clean water to meet their people’s needs many times over - just by harvesting the rain...
Cleaner canals
05 Nov 2006
The waterways of England and Wales are probably in a cleaner condition now than at any time since the Industrial...
Barging in
30 Jan 2008
Time was, canals were the best idea ever for shifting freight. Time now, then, that we realise what we've been missing...
A tale of the river bank
11 Nov 2006
Resuscitating the Yangtze, the Amazon and the Rio Grande with HSBC - WWF
A sea change in rainmaking
05 Nov 2006
How do you irrigate the world's arid coastlines? By taking water from the sea, of course. Wait a minute, there's...
A liquid revolution
09 Nov 2006
We’re burning masses of fossil fuel to clean all our water to drinking standards
2030 Vision
06 Dec 2007
WessexWater is striving to be genuinely ‘sustainable’ by the 2030s. Andrea Marshall tells us how they plan to do it...
