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Norway’s innovative wastewater treatments
An experimental decentralized urban treatment system that processes graywater from apartments in an Oslo suburb has consistently produced water pure enough to swim in. -
Water and sewerage challenges for major hotels
Water supply and sewerage systems have presented challenges in a major city's landmark hotel building. -
There’s more to kitchen and bathroom design
David Kohler, group president of the Kitchen and Bath Group for Kohler Co, speaks candidly about what constitutes good design in bathroom products. -
Women engineers meet water challenges
What attracts young women to the field of public health engineering? It could be family background, or even fascination with a childhood toy. -
Floating prison offers a unique plumbing solution
With an increasing number of people being held in prisons and detention centers around the world, governments are hard pressed finding solutions to satisfactorily house them. -
Poisoned water threatens developing countries
Drinking water in Bangladesh is making millions of people sick due to arsenic contamination and may be killing as many as 3,000 a year. -
Aircraft plumbing design
Imagine the equivalent of a large cinema crowd needing bathroom access 30,000ft in the sky. Aircraft plumbing designers are turning to distributed systems for solutions. -
Plumbing and gasfitting in the mining industry
Most of us understand that everything is huge in the mining industry – huge holes in the ground, huge contracts, huge dollars, huge equipment, huge environmental ... -
Plumbing in the Antarctic
Faber Maunsell regional director Michael Maslin says supplying potable water is the most complex and energy-consuming part of living and working in Antarctica. -
Testing toilet performance
Replicating real-life situations tests a researcher’s cleverness and patience, particularly when the subject is human waste.
