The right water bottle can make staying hydrated much more enjoyable, but with so many options on the market, where do you even begin looking? That’s where we come in. After putting a range of ...

Water retention is when fluid builds up in part of your body. It is also called fluid retention or edema. It can affect body tissues outside of blood vessels, leading to swelling or bloating. Water ...

More and more, people are experiencing the climate crisis through water. Water cycle patterns are disrupted meaning rainfall or snowmelt arrives either too early or too late or with too big or too ...

There’s nothing quite as frustrating as waking up to a chilly home, only to discover your boiler has locked out. Before you call out an engineer or panic about costly repairs, we'll take a closer look ...

One reason this might happen is if the condensate pipe attached to your boiler, usually found on an external wall, freezes over. The pipe carries away waste water from your condensing boiler to a ...

Record temperatures last year pushed the global water cycle to “new climatic extremes,” according to the Global Water Monitor 2024 report. The document, produced by an international consortium ...

My water bottle is attached to my hip. I carry it around the house all day, leave it by my bedside at night, and take it with me pretty much whenever I go on errands, walks, and trips. Before I ...

A total ban on gas boilers by 2035 is set to be scrapped by the UK government despite plans to drive up the use of heat pumps. Homeowners won’t now be forced to replace gas boilers with a green ...

Labour is set to ditch plans for an outright ban on new gas boilers from 2035 despite vowing to hit net zero targets. Gas boilers will be banned in new builds but households will still be allowed ...

But by the end of this decade, gas boilers will be banned in new homes with almost all having a heat pump installed instead, usually at the expense of developers before the property is sold.

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