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GE and memsys Report Successful New Vapor Compressor-Driven Membrane Distillation System for Water Treatment

After 200 hours of continuous operation at a Texas-based commercial disposal well, GE and memsys® clearwater Pte. Ltd. announced success for a new vapor compressor-driven membrane distillation (MD) system. memsys and GE will further discuss the development and use of MD to treat produced water at the ”Water and Energy 2013” conference that takes place in Houston, Texas, on September 25, 2013.

24 Sep 2013

MWRD’s New Nutrient Recovery System at Stickney Water Reclamation Plant to be built by Black & Veatch and Ostara

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) has selected Black & Veatch and Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies to design and build a new nutrient recovery system at its Stickney Water Reclamation Plant in Cicero, IL.

16 Sep 2013

Reed Elsevier Announces Winners of 2013 Environmental Challenge

Reed Elsevier, a world-leading provider of professional information solutions, today announced the winners of the 2013 Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge, which supports innovative solutions to improve sustainable access to safe water and sanitation.

5 Sep 2013

Stanford Study Reveals China’s Clean-Water Program Provides Substantial Benefits to People

The brown, smog-filled skies that engulf Beijing have earned China a poor reputation for environmental stewardship. But despite China's dirty skies, a study led by Stanford environmental scientists has found that a government-run clean water program is providing substantial benefit to millions of people in the nation's capital.

5 Sep 2013

KSU Researchers to Study Effect of Climate Change on Central Great Plains Water Systems

An outpouring of research funds is helping a group of Kansas State University researchers study how human activity and climate change affect Central Great Plains water systems.

30 Aug 2013

“An Inquiry into the Water Around Us” Curriculum Wins Science IBI Prize

When science educator Erin Saitta was a graduate student, she was invited to participate in a program in which students from kindergarten to high school age would do inquiry-based science — conducting real research labs without known outcomes, with the emphasis on learning how science works.

30 Aug 2013

MIT Team Develops Fog-Harvesting System with Improved Efficiency

In some of this planet’s driest regions, where rainfall is rare or even nonexistent, a few specialized plants and insects have devised ingenious strategies to provide themselves with the water necessary for life: They pull it right out of the air, from fog that drifts in from warm oceans nearby.

30 Aug 2013

Salty Wastewater from Oil and Gas Production Made into Economical Potable Water

In the midst of an intensifying global water crisis, scientists are reporting development of a more economical way to use one form of the “ice that burns” to turn very salty wastewater from fracking and other oil and gas production methods into water for drinking and irrigation. The study on the method, which removes more than 90 percent of the salt, appears in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

29 Aug 2013

Sustainable Water Toolkit Launched by ACS

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has launched Sustainable Water, a web-based toolkit featuring an anchor video and dozens of other resources to foster greater understanding of the challenges in providing a sustainable supply of clean water — and the possible scientific solutions. With 163,000 members, ACS is the world’s largest scientific society.

8 Aug 2013

Ak-Chin Indian Community’s Surface Water Treatment Plant Honored with Water Project of the Year Award

The Ak-Chin Indian Community’s surface water treatment plant, featuring GE’s ZeeWeed* 500 advanced treatment technology, was recently honored with the 2013 Water Project of the Year Award from the AZ Water Association.

20 Jul 2013