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Collecting Clean Water From Fog

Researchers at ETH Zurich have demonstrated the use of a specially coated metal mesh to harvest water from fog and simultaneously remove pollutants. People living in dry but foggy areas should benefit from this technology.

From ETH Zurich 22 Aug 2023

Climate Change has Stalled Global Plant Water Use Efficiency, Study Finds

As climate change causes levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to rapidly rise, scientists have widely believed that the increase might play a role in helping to improve the way plants consume water, known as water use efficiency (WUE).

17 Aug 2023

Wastewater Treatment Plants Affect Species Composition of Invertebrates

Effluents from wastewater treatment plants have a dual effect: Some species disappear, while others benefit. Especially certain insect orders, such as stonefly and caddisfly larvae, are decimated.

14 Aug 2023

Integrated Water-Carbon Management Framework Crucial to Address Power Sector Challenges

Water scarcity and climate change is a threat to energy security, as carbon emission reduction from water and dry cooling of power plants remains a major challenge worldwide.

10 Aug 2023

New Class of Artificial Water Channels can Improve the Energy-Efficiency of Current Industrial Water Purification Methods

A team led by scientists from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Department of Biological Sciences in collaboration with the French Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) has successfully synthesised a special protein-mimic that can self-assemble into a pore structure.

3 Aug 2023

Sources and Distribution of Trace Metals in the Ocean

Rivers carry trace metals and essential nutrients into the ocean. Such elements include characteristic isotopic signatures that can be used by geologists to find where the water in the ocean comes from.

1 Aug 2023

Innovative Strategy Could Help Improve Water Quality in Eutrophic Lakes

Lakes worldwide are grappling with the effects of eutrophication, such as algal blooms, primarily due to excessive nitrogen and phosphorus.

1 Aug 2023

Drax Approved for New £500m Cruachan 2 Pumped Storage Hydro Project

Drax Group today (July 25) announced it has secured development consent from The Scottish Government for its plans to build a new £500m underground pumped storage hydro plant at its existing Cruachan facility in Argyll.

27 Jul 2023

Climate Change Has Dried Out the Colorado River Basin, Study Finds

From 2000 to 2021, climate change caused the loss of more than 40 trillion liters (10 trillion gallons) of water in the Colorado River Basin - about equal to the entire storage capacity of Lake Mead - according to a new study that modeled humans' impact on hydrology in the region.

26 Jul 2023

A New Hope for Clean Water: Solar-Powered Water Remediation

Using electrochemistry to separate different particles within a solution (also known as electrochemical separation) is an energy-efficient strategy for environmental and water remediation: the process of purifying contaminated water.

25 Jul 2023