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Experts Gather at MIT to Prepare Roadmap for “Green” Desalination

Considered one of the most significant turnarounds ever accomplished in relation to a natural resource emergency, Israel has overcome a threatening fresh water scarcity within a decade.

From IDE Technologies 20 Oct 2016

New Sandia Report Maps Use of Fresh Water for Energy Production Around Pacific Rim

A wide-ranging analysis of water vulnerability across the Pacific — including the U.S., China, Russia and Japan — has identified hundreds of locations where energy production depends upon scarce water supplies.

16 Sep 2016

Water Can Serve as Invisible Cage for Growth of Micelle Fiber

When it comes to water, some materials have a split personality – and some of these materials could hold the key to new ways of harnessing solar energy.

14 Sep 2016

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