The European Union proposed Thursday giving millions of people in the 28-nation bloc better access to safe tap water and reduce water consumption via wasteful plastic bottles.
Environment
Feb 1, 2018
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Concerns over hydraulic fracturing, an oil and gas extraction method that injects millions of gallons of freshwater and chemicals into shale, have largely focused on potential impacts on water quality. But, as scientists ...
Environment
Jan 31, 2018
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The United States faces a looming crisis over its deteriorating water infrastructure, and fixing it will be a monumental and expensive task.
Robotics
Dec 8, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata has found that an easily synthesized compound can be used to remove fluoride and metal ions from drinking water. In their ...
How safe is the water you drink? For the 45 million Americans who get their drinking water from private groundwater wells rather than a public utility, the answer is decidedly murky. The Environmental Protection Agency regulations ...
Environment
Nov 27, 2017
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A simple colour-changing test to detect fluoride in drinking water, devised by researchers at the University of Bath, could in the future prevent the crippling bone disease, skeletal fluorosis, in developing countries such ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 13, 2017
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Water quality monitoring currently occurs mainly at water supply intakes or water treatment plants, rather than along water distribution lines or at the point of use. This is inadequate because negative changes can occur ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 2, 2017
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As a child, David Sedlak was inspired by Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel Dune, which depicts a desert world where people wear "stillsuits" to capture their water waste and distill it for reuse.
Environment
Nov 2, 2017
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In Natalie Hull's hometown in rural Kentucky, well water was contaminated by heavy metals from mining, and sewage from pipes emptied into a creek that ran near her house.
Engineering
Nov 1, 2017
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Picture a nation-wide system of pipes and waterways connecting watershed basins all around the country.
Environment
Oct 25, 2017
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