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Environment Jun 15, 2022

Did California learn anything from the last drought? 'Gambling' with water continues

The governor of California stood in a patch of dry brown grass as he made his proclamation:

Analytical Chemistry May 26, 2022

Desalination study could help engineers produce clean water more efficiently

A team led by researchers from Imperial College London, investigated how water molecules move in a confined space—in this case through a polyamide (PA) membrane that is used to remove salt from seawater to produce fresh water.

Environment May 24, 2022

How cities in the West have water amid drought

As drought and climate change tighten their grip on the American West, the sight of fountains, swimming pools, gardens and golf courses in cities like Phoenix, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Boise, and Albuquerque ...

Environment May 13, 2022

California Coastal Commission rejects plan for Poseidon desalination plant

After hearing hours of heated debate, the California Coastal Commission voted against a controversial plan by the company Poseidon Water to build a huge desalination plant in Huntington Beach.

Nanophysics May 12, 2022

The future of desalination? A fast, efficient, selective membrane for purifying saltwater

Water scarcity is a growing problem around the world. Desalination of seawater is an established method to produce drinkable water but comes with huge energy costs. For the first time, researchers use fluorine-based nanostructures ...

Polymers May 11, 2022

A promising solution to improve the surface hydrophobicity of hydrophobic membranes

As many chemists know, the membrane distillation (MD) process has gained increasing popularity and attention for saline treatment, especially because of its extremely high salt rejection (the theoretical value up to 100%). ...

Nanomaterials Apr 26, 2022

Measuring the 'wettability' of graphene and other 2D materials

Wettability of a material is the ability of a liquid to maintain contact with a solid surface, and it is proportional to hydrophilicity and inversely proportional to hydrophobicity. It is one of the most important properties ...

Environment Apr 25, 2022

Drought boon or boondoggle? Critics blast Poseidon desalination plan as crucial vote looms

Among the many complex arguments over water in California, one particularly heated debate centers on whether the state should seek more drinking water from a plentiful but expensive source: the Pacific Ocean.

Environment Apr 20, 2022

Small but mighty: Harnessing the power of algae to capture carbon

As a University of Arizona professor of astronomy and planetary sciences who studies planets orbiting other stars, Daniel Apai spends much of his time thinking about what makes worlds habitable.

Environment Apr 15, 2022

Israel to top up shrinking Sea of Galilee with desalinated water

Israel, a leader in making seawater drinkable, plans to pump excess output from its desalination plants into the Sea of Galilee, depleted by overuse and threatened by climate change.

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