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Small-Scale Solar-Powered Desalination System for Villages

When graduate student Natasha Wright began her PhD program in mechanical engineering, she had no idea how to remove salt from groundwater to make it more palatable, nor had she ever been to India, where this is an ongoing need.

23 Jun 2015

NASA Satellites Used in UCI Research Study on Global Depletion of Groundwater Basins

UC Irvine researchers conducted two new studies using data from NASA Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites and reported rapid draining of water in some of the large groundwater basins worldwide due to human consumption. Further, there is less or no data available on the remaining amount of water in these basins.

18 Jun 2015

Uranium-Breathing Bacteria Could Clean Polluted Groundwater at Uranium Ore Processing Sites

A strain of bacteria that "breathes" uranium may hold the key to cleaning up polluted groundwater at sites where uranium ore was processed to make nuclear weapons.

16 Jun 2015

TAML Catalysts Demonstrate Potential to Remove Dangerous Endocrine Disruptors from Wastewater

Catalysts created by Carnegie Mellon University chemist Terrence J. Collins effectively and safely remove a potent and dangerous endocrine disruptor from wastewater.

15 Jun 2015

Climate Change Impacts on Water Cycle of Midwestern US Remain Uncertain

Will climate change make the U.S. Midwest drier or wetter during the summer growing season? A new Dartmouth-led study finds that the answer remains uncertain.

20 May 2015

European Trees Increase Water-Use Efficiency Due to Increased Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations

Increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations have already caused large-scale physiological responses of European forests. In particular, the efficiency of water-use of trees, which is coupled to the uptake of CO2 during photosynthesis of leaves and needles has changed significantly.

13 May 2015

Freshwater Information Platform for Sustainable Management of Threatened Freshwater Ecosystems

Four European research institutes have launched an online platform to make information from a large set of freshwater ecosystem research activities accessible to all. The Freshwater Information Platform offers a forum for information exchange and open-access publishing of maps and data, and aims to stimulate cutting-edge research and collaborations in the field. The Platform provides a unique and comprehensive knowledge base for sustainable and evidence-based management of our threatened freshwater ecosystems and the resources they provide.

8 May 2015

UTEP Center for Inland Desalination Team Wins 2nd Place in Desal Prize Competition

Carbon, held in frozen permafrost soils for tens of thousands of years, is being released as Arctic regions of the Earth warm and is further fueling global climate change, according to a Florida State University researcher.

25 Apr 2015

A-Frame-Like Contraption Produces Ceramic Water Filters for Making Unsafe Water Potable

A game-changer. That’s what Penn State art education professor B. Stephen Carpenter II calls the approximately 50-pound portable filter press designed by engineering students during the spring 2014 semester. The A-frame-like contraption, small enough to fit in a suitcase, produces ceramic water filters that, simply but significantly, make unsafe water potable.

10 Mar 2015

Satellite ‘Superhero Vision’ Helps Visualise Pollution Levels of Water on Earth

An international team of researchers has demonstrated a way to assess the quality of water on Earth from space by using satellite technology that can visualise pollution levels otherwise invisible to the human eye through ‘Superhero vision’.

3 Mar 2015