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Category Archives: water

Goodbye to the Bucket Toilet

For those of you who have been thinking that your humble zone5 blogger has got his head in the toilet for much of the time, I can now offer you proof: After many years of shitting in a bucket I am now proud to announce the opening of a brand new twin-chamber concrete block toilet [...]

Peak Water

Peak Water Civilisation and the World’s Water Crisis Alexander Bell Luath Press 2009 Hardback 208 pp If oil supply peaks and begins to decline times will be hard. Standard of living will decline and people may go hungry but they will be able to adapt by powering down and making do with less. If water [...]

Permaculture at Derryduff

The summer break from Kinsale College has givien me some time to spend on the site at Derryduff and I have been developing the gardens and landscaping here over the last couple of months. In particular, a large extension to the small pond has now been created, with multiple potential uses: -swimming hole- glorious to [...]

The Great Magic Water Conference

Anatomy of a Scam A few years ago I attended an extraordinary event in Co. Monaghan which I still refer to as “The great magic Water Conference”. Organised by local environmentalists to promote the “discoveries” of an outfit called Perfect Science, it drew together an extraordinary mix of council water engineers, environmentalists and water diviners, [...]

Draining the Shannon

Last week RTE played a radio debate between PJ Walsh, a locally based campaigner and PRO of the recently formed Shannon Environmental Protection Alliance (SPA), and Tom Leahy, an engineer with Dublin City Council. They discussed a proposal to extract water from the river Shannon at Loch Ree to quench the growing water demand from [...]

When the Rivers Run Dry

With changing weather patterns leading to extreme weather reports hitting the headlines with ever greater frequency, it seems there is either too much water, as in the destructive floods across the midlands of England and the North of Ireland earlier this month, or not enough, as in the catastrophic impact of the Australian drought. Water [...]