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Flooding not only costs the UK economy billions of pounds every year, it also causes immeasurable damage to people’s lives and livelihoods. When it comes to livelihoods affected, small business owners are one of the categories of people hit hardest with regards to severe flooding. (more…)

Aquaread recently attended The Flood Expo 2016, the largest event of its kind in the world showcasing the best solutions and innovations in the world of flooding. The event, hosted at London’s ExCel, showcased a new feature for 2016 in the form of The Flood Expo Awards, designed to recognise and celebrate companies and products pushing forward in the areas of flood innovation, mitigation and resilience. (more…)

The idea of queuing up in the street for water in the heat of summer might conjure up images of third world countries. New data has predicted that this, with a 20% chance, could be necessary in London in as little as 25 years. (more…)

Each year, findings and studies are published which promote the fact that the world is changing at an alarming rate. The world’s oceans are no exception. A new study published in Nature addresses one of the biggest uncertainties in global warming’s effects on the ocean, specifically relating to the ocean’s salinity and the shifting of the polar ice caps. (more…)

Following the hottest July and August on record, the earth’s rising temperature is having a number of knock on effects on rising ocean water temperatures around the world. A new study by The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has described rising ocean temperatures as “the greatest hidden challenge of our generation,” and outlined findings that indicate that oceans absorb up to 90% of the extra heat that our greenhouse gases trap. This study paints an alarming picture of oceanic conditions and the future of our planet.

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With the rate at which modern towns and cities expand it’s inevitable that the volume of separation between agricultural facilities and highly populated areas is shrinking. The loss of these areas can have a lasting impact, particularly when it comes to our water supplies.

From an increase in water treatment prices to potentially dangerous levels of nitrogen, agricultural facilities encroaching on water supplies has the potential to cause lasting, and potentially harmful, damage.

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We already know that the pH of water can have detrimental effect on human health, and can be affected by a number of different factors including: residue from volcanic vents, acid rain and global warming. But just how big of an effect can it have on delicate aquatic ecosystems? A number of recent stories and headlines have indicated that the answer is, quite a lot. From fishing practices in Alaska, to dampened escape responses in black turban snails, acidic water is showing increasingly observable pressure on aquatic habitats.

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The EU results have caused a massive stir in the political and economic landscape with many people still debating the ramifications. Perhaps less documented however is potential effect that leaving the EU could have on the environment and legislation to protect it. Though debating the positives of the EU may seem somewhat redundant now, there was little denying that in most cases, their environmental policies, though stringent at times, helped to maintain a level of conformity across the continent.

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Dissolved oxygen (DO) is a measure of the amount of oxygen dissolved in water. It can be caused by a process of aeration of water flowing through rapids or falls, a byproduct of photosynthesis and the atmosphere. Monitoring DO levels in water may be more important than you think. From dead fish washing up on the shores of Singapore, to historically low levels of brown shrimp, DO is having an adverse effect on ecosystems all over the world. (more…)

Despite it being the official start of British summer, many locations have continued to be hit by severe flooding in the last few weeks. Locations all over the UK have been struck by severe weather warnings, and many properties have been left damaged by the continued rainfall. Unfortunately this is not considered remarkable. The UK has already seen heavy flooding since the year started, following on from years of previously high flood levels. (more…)