Bad water kills more children than war
12 Feb 2009 In the Western world there is scant appreciation of how fortunate we are to have public infrastructure, general good health and pleasant living conditions.

Great innovations in sanitary engineering
11 Feb 2009 The 19th Century saw a flourishing of great innovations in sanitary engineering, introducing safe and practical building drainage and plumbing systems on a large scale.

Plumbing given the respect it deserves
11 Feb 2009 For a country that is not under pressure to conserve water, Sweden takes its plumbing industry extremely seriously.

There's more to kitchen and bathroom design
11 Feb 2009 David Kohler, group president of the Kitchen and Bath Group for Kohler Co, speaks candidly about what constitutes good design in bathroom products.

Poisoned water threatens developing countries
11 Feb 2009 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.

Norway's innovative wastewater treatments
11 Feb 2009 An experimental decentralized urban treatment system that processes graywater from apartments in an Oslo suburb has consistently produced water pure enough to swim in.

Floating prison offers a unique plumbing solution
11 Feb 2009 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.

Water and sewerage challenges for major hotels
11 Feb 2009 Water supply and sewerage systems have presented challenges in a major city's landmark hotel building.

Plumbing solutions for O2 Arena
11 Feb 2009 Initially it posed a problem for developers, but it wasn’t long before the redevelopment of London’s O2 Arena provided a huge hurdle for plumbing engineers to overcome.

Women engineers meet water challenges
11 Feb 2009 What attracts young women to the field of public health engineering? It could be family background, or even fascination with a childhood toy.

Curing pathogens in the pipes
10 Feb 2009 The deaths of six infants in a Canadian neo-natal ward reinforce the need for hospitals to be exceptionally vigilant about maintaining a healthy plumbing system to guard against waterborne pathogens.

Aircraft plumbing design
10 Feb 2009 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.

Saving water and power in hotel bathrooms
10 Feb 2009 Hotel bathrooms have to meet guests’ expectations while saving water and power.