Many people have heard of reverse osmosis and know that it can be used to treat water to a high degree of purity, but their understanding of the technology ends there.
Within the history of the development of the drainage network design guides we now take for granted, there have been some celebrated differences of opinion that still have an impact on our design codes and general approaches to public health.
Water availability impacts upon developmental issues--in particular housing demand--that may well be highly regionalized depending upon local economic prosperity and national profile.
In 1903, Joukowsky completed his assignment to investigate the water hammer problems encountered at the Imperial Water Works in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Every so often, the question will come up: "Can a plumbing and/or gas fitting inspector legally file for a permit and perform plumbing or gas fitting in the city or town they work for?"
On July 9, 2003, John chaired the final meeting of the Water Regulations Advisory Committee of Defra--the U.K. Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.