Water, water everywhere, but will there be water to drink?

We know the Earth as the blue planet, that beautiful image from space, where we see the majority of our world is water, but we forget that water, our staff of life, is a precious resource.  Lord Deben, who gave the second annual Papplewick Pumping Station lecture here at the University last November, is Chair of the …

Launch of the Centre for Advanced Studies

CAS, the Centre for Advanced Studies, was relaunched last week in its new home, Highfield House; our visitors were wreathed in smiles and the sun shone, well, for two days out of three.  Sally Bowden had the unenviable task of putting in place the three days of events and Friday evening must have been a …