After generating a lot of debate in our earlier post on what is an event and what is an alert, RiverMuse founder and Chief Science Officer, Phil Tee gives his perspective: Births; Marriages; Deaths; West Bromwich Albion scoring three goals to secure the “double” against Manchester United; Sterling reaches parity with the Euro; Barack elected first African American President; The Number 42 bus arrives on time... read more

The Event versus Alert post generated a good discussion and we will be posting a new view on that topic later in the week.  Meantime, one of our contributors has posed a question that is worthy of it’s own thread  – discuss….. Original post from J3ffG1ll: For me, the entire discussion boils down to the information in (or about) the production environment, and the information that’s presented to the... read more

Nepal is a beautiful mountainous country where many famous rivers have their source. Despite this, clean water is in desperately short supply for most of the population. Last year 13,000 children died as a result of illnesses caused by drinking unsafe water. UNICEF is working with it’s partners to provide and maintain additional taps and clean water outlets in Nepal. A lack of clean water... read more