Team patents system for building inflatable hydraulic dams, easy to assemble and disassemble
Researchers from the University of Granada have patented a new system, based on placing modules as the foundations for building cheaper, inflatable hydraulic dams, which can be assembled and dismantled very ...
Apr 16, 2013
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Cell phone camera photographs microscopic cell samples
On April 11th JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) will publish a new video article by Dr. Aydogan Ozcan demonstrating how a cell phone camera can capture images from a fluorescent microscope and flow cytometer, whic ...
Apr 11, 2013
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Swiss dam fault kills thousands of trout
Thousands of trout were killed in Switzerland after technical trouble at a hydroelectric dam stemmed the water flow in a national park, the Swiss news agency ATS reported.
Mar 31, 2013
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Key find for treating wastewater on World Water Day
New river-routing model improves simulations of water movement within the Earth's system
A new river-routing model improves computer simulations of the magnitude and timing of water flow through the landscape and into the ocean, thanks to the work of a research team led by Dr. Ruby Leung at Pacific ...
Mar 19, 2013
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Tracers reveal hidden rivers beneath ice-sheet
Artificial gas tracers pumped into water at the surface of the Greenland ice sheet have revealed a hidden network of rivers flowing beneath it.
Mar 12, 2013
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New fish species described from the streams of Manyas Lake basin, Turkey
The newly described species Alburnoides manyasensis, belongs the large carp family Cyprinidae that includes freshwater fishes such as he carps, the minnows, and their relatives. This is the largest fish f ...
Mar 08, 2013
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Team finds how the world's saltiest pond gets its salt
Antarctica's Don Juan Pond might be the unlikeliest body of water on Earth. Situated in the frigid McMurdo Dry Valleys, only the pond's high salt content—by far the highest of any body of water on the planet—keeps it ...
Feb 07, 2013
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Thailand: Astonishing 10 new species of semi-aquatic freshwater earthworms revealed
The semi-aquatic earthworms in the genus Glyphidrilus are somewhat unfamiliar species that live between the terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems of rivers, streams, canals, ponds, swamps and paddy system ...
Feb 06, 2013
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New insights into managing our water resources
Dr Tim Peterson, from the School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne has offered new theories that will lead to a deeper knowledge of how water catchments behave during wet and dry years. His research was published ...
Jan 29, 2013
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'Air shower' saves 50 percent water
A new shower nozzle that uses up to 50 per cent less water while maintaining the sensation of full pressure could provide Australians with guilt-free showers over the hot, dry summer – simply by adding ...
Jan 24, 2013
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Nonprofit tech innovators inspire new philanthropy
(AP)—Scott Harrison's organization called Charity: Water has funded nearly 7,000 clean water projects in some of the poorest areas of the world.
Dec 27, 2012
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Researchers model behavior of stream flow
Eighty billion metric tons is an unfathomable amount to the human brain. Yet that number is the estimation of the global amount of sediment eroded on a yearly basis over the continental surface of the earth. ...
Dec 10, 2012
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Analyzing Lake Geneva from the air: A second wind for elemo
One year after the MIR submersibles dove into the depths of Lake Geneva, the elemo program is delivering its first scientific results. And with the support of Ferring Pharmaceuticals, the operation will be ...
Nov 20, 2012
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