Entries Tagged Research

Open House New York — a nonprofit that promotes access to the city's projects and systems — recently distributed $10 lottery tickets offering...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have useful properties including durability and waterproofing, so they’re commonly used in consumer products like food packaging...

Worcester (Massachusetts) Polytechnic Institute researchers recently developed a wastewater treatment process to remove PFAS and potentially generate renewable fuel, reducing carbon emissions. Collaborating...

Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered that brewing tea naturally removes heavy metals like lead and cadmium from water.  The tea leaves...

Engineers recently developed carbon cloth electrodes to efficiently remove boron from seawater, simplifying the desalination process and reducing costs.This new method eliminates the need for...

California, federal and international representatives recently gathered near the southern border to celebrate a state-funded pilot project to help clean up the...

Ohio Sea Grant — on behalf of The Ohio State University, The University of Toledo and the Ohio Department of Higher Education...

First used in the 1940s to monitor for polio, wastewater surveillance proved such a powerful disease monitoring tool that the U.S. Centers...

Technology is advancing fast in the water treatment industries. But where can innovators put their new concepts to the test before they’re...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFAS) could take over 40 years to flush out of contaminated groundwater in North Carolina’s Cumberland and Bladen...

Urbanization is threatening freshwater species around the world, especially in drier regions where rivers often dry up or are altered. In some...

Dartmouth researchers recently developed a self-powered pump that uses natural light and synthetic molecular receptors to target and remove specific water pollutants,...

Rising water prices in the U.S. are forcing many households to choose between rationing water or risking shutoff due to unpaid bills....

A project led by UC Berkeley architecture professor Maria-Paz Gutierrez — with collaborators from UC Merced and two Texas universities — seeks to...