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Critical Upgrades to Argonne’s WATER Tool Help Bioenergy Developers Manage Resources

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory recently launched an upgraded version of an online computer model put together to help bioenergy developers preserve vital resources.

17 May 2019

Scientists to Value Benefits of Eco-Friendly Flood Schemes

The economic and environmental benefits of natural flood defences will be explored in a £467,000 University of Stirling-led project.

17 May 2019

Energy from Seawater: Power Generator Autonomously Switches Between Two Functional Modes

Underwater vehicles, diving robots, and detectors require their own energy supply to operate for long periods independent of ships.

15 May 2019

Newly Developed System can Turn Sludge from Wastewater Treatment Plants into Mineral Salts and Biogas

EPFL spin-off TreaTech has created a system that can convert sludge from wastewater treatment plants into biogas and mineral salts, which, for instance, could be used in fertilizer.

14 May 2019

New Desalination Method for Hypersaline Brines Could Address the Growing Water Challenges

Hypersaline brines—water that consists of high concentrations of dissolved salts and with saline levels more than ocean water—are a rising environmental concern worldwide.

7 May 2019

Pentair Delivers Great-Tasting, Filtered Drinking Water to Target Field for the 2019 Baseball Season

Pentair, a global water treatment company, takes pride in announcing that it is now providing great-tasting, filtered drinking water to Target Field for the 2019 baseball season.

2 May 2019

Study Examines Environmental and Socioeconomic Interactions Within and Across Borders to Understand the Trading of Natural Resources

Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have penned two papers that have begun to challenge a more basic, input/output view of natural resources in support of a method that better reflected the way the world actually works.

2 May 2019

Startups Targeting Methane and Wastewater Named Co-Winners of MIT Water Innovation Prize

A startup with a cheap technology for purifying textile wastewater and another with a system to help reduce methane emissions from cattle were named co-winners of the MIT Water Innovation Prize on Thursday.

24 Apr 2019

MIT Researchers Develop New, Systematic Approach for Designing Long-Term Water Infrastructure Amid Climate Change Uncertainty

Mombasa is the second largest city in Kenya. It has been projected that by 2035, water demand in this city will increase by two-fold and will reach an estimated 300,000 m3 per day.

23 Apr 2019