Recycling the world's wastewater, almost all of which goes untreated, would ease global water shortages while protecting the environment, the United Nations said in a major report on Wednesday.
Environment
Mar 22, 2017
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A solar-powered purification system could provide remote parts of India with clean drinking water for the first time.
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 17, 2017
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They're in stain-resistant carpet, paint, permanent markers, food packaging and firefighting foam. Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), a broad class of manufactured chemicals, touch every corner of the industrialized world. ...
Engineering
Nov 14, 2016
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Recent news about tainted water in Flint, Michigan, and other parts of the country have called into question the safety of the nation's drinking water supply. Adding to this, a new study finds that pollutants from household ...
Environment
Jan 27, 2016
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A new study of five drinking water samples of different quality shows that ultrasonic humidifiers aerosolize and emit dissolved contaminants that can be inhaled, including minerals and metals. For an ultrasonic humidifier, ...
Environment
Nov 24, 2015
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Brazilian authorities declared a state of emergency Tuesday in more than 200 towns affected by a deadly mining waste spill.
Environment
Nov 18, 2015
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The world needs to prepare for a flood of potentially dangerous new pollutants, an international expert in environmental chemistry has warned.
Environment
Sep 14, 2015
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Human consumption of bacterially contaminated water causes millions of deaths each year throughout the world—primarily among children. While studying the material properties of paper as a graduate student, Theresa Dankovich, ...
Materials Science
Aug 16, 2015
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A report concludes that blooms of toxic cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, are a poorly monitored and underappreciated risk to recreational and drinking water quality in the United States, and may increasingly pose a global ...
Environment
Aug 13, 2015
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Toxic waste that gushed from a Colorado mine and threatened downstream water supplies in at least three states will continue to be dangerous when contaminated sediment gets stirred up from the river bottom, authorities said ...
Environment
Aug 12, 2015
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