DISCUSSION ON MELBOURNE, MURREE AND BELFAST WATER-SUPPLIES.

Interdisciplinary Higher Education and the Melbourne Model: A Discussion Paper

The so-called ‘Melbourne Model’ has recently been adopted by the Council of the University of Melbourne, Australia after a long consultation process and widespread media attention. It proposes the design of new subjects which offer what are referred to as ‘different ways of knowing’ from students’ ‘core’ disciplines, partly through ‘the delivery of breadth subjects that are interdisciplinary in...

Chemical contamination of water supplies.

Man-made organic chemicals have been found in drinking water for many years. Their numbers and varieties increase as our analytical capabilities improve. The identified chemicals comprise 10 to 20% of the total organic matter present. These are volatile or low molecular weight compounds which are easily identified. Many of them are carcinogenic or mutagenic. Chlorinated compounds have been foun...

Adding fluoride to water supplies.

Rising temperatures and dwindling water supplies

In this paper we discuss the results of a survey on the perception of climate change in the 14 “tourist zones” (as defined by the Spanish Statistical Institute, INE) that stretch from the French border to Gibraltar alongside the Spanish Mediterranean coast, including the Balearic Islands. Our sample consisted of 1014 telephone interviews stratified according to the number of tourists staying in...

The water supplies and water requirements of the modern state.

This is a vast subject and I cannot hope to do more than touch the fringes of it in the short space allotted to me. Clearly, water is the most important and widely used raw material of all. It is vital in every sense of that word. I t is a primary requirement of vegetable life and of animal life (and here I include human life). I need not stress its many domestic uses. Water is essential in pro...