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A Study to Reduce Energy Consumption While Harvesting Water from Air

There is an ongoing challenge of providing access to clean water for communities living in parched areas of the world. Recent developments that involve harvesting water from air have been suggested as a solution.

8 Sep 2016

Sandia Researcher Suggests Usage of Liquid Refrigerant to Save Millions of Gallons of Water Annually

In different parts of the country, people discuss gray-water recycling and rainwater capture to minimize the millions of gallons of groundwater required to cool large data centers.

1 Sep 2016

New Technique Allows Scientists to Unravel Historical Changes to Antarctic Sea Ice

Historic changes to Antarctic sea ice could be unravelled using a new technique pioneered by scientists at Plymouth University.

31 Aug 2016

Researchers Create Dual Platform Capable of Detecting Pollutants in Water Bodies

The World Health Organization (WHO) describes contaminated water and the poor hygiene associated with this for the transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio.

22 Aug 2016

Certain Aquatic Ferns Demonstrate Impressive Ability to Selectively Absorb Oil from Contaminated Water

Certain varieties of aquatic floating weeds demonstrate an impressive ability to selectively absorb oil from contaminated water. These plants, which are often regarded as a nuisance, could in fact provide an extremely convenient way of cleaning up messy oil spills.

17 Aug 2016

Scientists Develop New Efficient, Affordable Water Heating Technique

A new highly efficient and cost-effective technique to heat water in residential structures has been developed by a team of scientists from the University of Florida and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

17 Aug 2016

Nanostructured Device has Ability to Disinfect Water Faster than Conventional Methods

Around the world, the only way to make germy water safe is through a boiling process, which uses a lot of fuel.

16 Aug 2016

Toxic Chemicals Exceed Federally Recommended Safety Levels in Public Drinking Water Supplies in the U.S.

Levels of a widely used class of industrial chemicals linked with cancer and other health problems--polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs)--exceed federally recommended safety levels in public drinking water supplies for six million people in the U.S., according to a new study led by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

10 Aug 2016

Researchers Create First-Ever Map of Key Regions of Submarine Groundwater Discharge

Researchers have uncovered previously hidden sources of ocean pollution along more than 20 percent of America’s coastlines.

5 Aug 2016

Common Type of Blue-Green Algae Adapt to Earth's Rising CO2 Levels

A common type of blue-green algae seems to be easily adapting itself to the Earth's rising CO2 levels. Some of the many toxin-producing varieties of blue-green algae are found to be managing climatic change much better than suspected.

5 Aug 2016