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The first global-scale assessment of the role ecosystems play in providing sanitation finds that nature provides at least 18% of sanitation services in 48 cities worldwide, according to researchers in the United Kingdom and India. The study, published February 19 in the journal
One Earth, estimates that more than 2 million cubic meters of the cities human waste is processed each year without engineered infrastructure. This includes pit latrine waste that gradually filters through the soil a natural process that cleans it before it reaches groundwater. Nature can, and does, take the role of sanitation infrastructure, said Alison Parker, a Senior Lecturer in International Water and Sanitation at Cranfield University in the United Kingdom and one of the authors of the study. While we are not marginalizing the vital role of engineered infrastructure, we believe a better understanding of how engineered and natural infrastructure interact may allow adaptive
People running businesses in the Keswick area are being encouraged to give their views about the impact of Covid-19 and Brexit. Rural business owners and managers are being invited to complete the Local Perspectives Business Survey online to feed into research being carried out by Newcastle and Gloucestershire Universities on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Dr Paul Cowie, from Newcastle University’s Centre for Rural Economy is part of the team conducting the research with the Countryside and Community Research Institute at the University of Gloucestershire. He said: “We know that Covid-19 has hit rural businesses hard and we would urge anyone involved in this sector in the Keswick area to give us their views.
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image captionEmily Hutchinson has written an e-book telling the stories of people remembered on park benches
A photo-journalism student has been helping families to share their stories of departed loved ones who are commemorated on park benches.
Emily Hutchinson from Oxfordshire spoke to relatives who had dedicated a bench in Pittville Park, Cheltenham to their family members.
Her e-book of personal stories started as a university project but very quickly became much more than that.
Relatives said the project had helped to create a community of remembrance. It s such a natural thing to notice a name and want to put a face to the name, you do it subconsciously said Ms Hutchinson, who first became curious about the lives behind the memorials two years ago.
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