It all started with a news report about a billboard. One day a few years ago Doug Martin, an engineer at the American automaker Ford, read an article about a billboard in a coastal desert in Peru: the billboard was designed to collect the water that condensed on the billboard’s…

Like people across the developed world, most Malaysians take clean water for granted. All they need to do to get it is to turn on a tap somewhere within easy reach. They can also get drinking water bottled with bubbles and myriad flavors. Yet for people living in the poorest…

Water often seems like an unlimited resource in a geographically and topographically blessed country like Malaysia. Yet most citizens treat the precious liquid as if there was no tomorrow – so much so that Malaysians use more water than people in most developed nations, Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister…