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Deepwater Wind Installs First of Five Steel Foundation Jackets in Block Island Wind Farm

In an historic moment for the American offshore wind industry, the Block Island Wind Farm has reached its “steel in the water” milestone with the installation of the first wind farm foundation component.

28 Jul 2015

Zinc Coating on Galvanized Steel Pipes Identified as Significant Source of Lead in Water

When unsafe levels of lead are found in drinking water, the culprit has typically been lead pipes or lead-containing brass and bronze fittings, but in a new study researchers clearly show that lead present in the zinc coating of galvanized steel pipes can be a very significant long-term source of lead in water.

23 Jul 2015

HydroRevolution to Construct Commercial Solar Desalination Facility in California

HydroRevolutionSM, a California subsidiary of WaterFX™, today announced plans to build a commercial solar desalination plant in the Panoche Water and Drainage District in California's Central Valley. Once constructed, HydroRevolutionSM will provide a highly sustainable water source to local water districts by using solar energy to recycle salt impaired water into freshwater. This technology will be the first of its kind in the Central Valley but the company hopes this project is merely the first step in revolutionizing the way California uses water.

17 Jul 2015

MIT Spinout Develops Cost-Effective Systems to Treat Briny Oilfield Water for Reuse

Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” produces a lot of wastewater. Drilling one well requires millions of gallons of water that’s injected into the ground to loosen rocks and release oil. While some is reused, much of the produced water is discarded into deep injection wells, and clean water is purchased again and again.

17 Jul 2015

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