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SIWI Proposes Integration of Water Resources in Global 2015 Climate Agreement During World Water Week

World Water Week closed on Friday, with SIWI urging climate negotiators to ensure that water is thoroughly integrated in the global 2015 climate agreement.

31 Aug 2015

New Study Shows Intensity of Groundwater Contamination Via Uranium and Nitrate in Two Key US Aquifers

Nearly 2 million people throughout the Great Plains and California above aquifer sites contaminated with natural uranium that is mobilized by human-contributed nitrate, according to a study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

18 Aug 2015

UC Riverside Receives $350,000 to Establish Urban Water Innovation Network

The University of California, Riverside is one of 14 academic institutions and key partners across the United States that are addressing the challenges threatening urban water systems in the United States and around the world. These institutions, led by Colorado State University, have just received $12 million from the National Science Foundation to establish the Urban Water Innovation Network (UWIN).

3 Aug 2015

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