Entries Tagged Research

Online Exclusives NSF Award Advances Kentucky Researchers Low-Cost Water Treatment Work

Along the rivers that snake across the Commonwealth, you’ll find a University of Kentucky researcher taking samples to study the health of...

November 07, 2022

Online Exclusives Manmade Wetlands Are a Natural Barrier to the Spread of Microplastics, Says Study

Constructed wetlands, built to treat wastewater and stormwater runoff, act as a barrier preventing the spread of microplastics through the environment, a...

November 01, 2022

Online Exclusives Water Fleas as 'Canaries in Coal Mine' Offer Key to Managing Chemical Pollution

Water fleas, or Daphnia, could provide an important early warning system for chemical pollution in our lakes and rivers. In addition, where prevention...

October 13, 2022

Editorial A New Organization Aims to Create

The water sector faces a set of persistent challenges: developing the workforce of the future, deploying innovative technologies, defining research needs and...

October 12, 2022

Online Exclusives Canadian Student Wins Stockholm Junior Water Prize 2022

Annabelle M. Rayson from Canada has received the prestigious 2022 Stockholm Junior Water Prize for her research on how to treat and...

September 06, 2022

Online Exclusives Chemists Discover Simple Method to Destroy Some PFAS

If you're despairing at recent reports that Earth's water sources have been thoroughly infested with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), making even...

August 23, 2022

Online Exclusives EPA Awards Grant to Students to Address PFAS in Drinking Water

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently awarded $25,000 to University of Missouri engineering sustainability students to design, fabricate and test a point-of-use...

August 01, 2022

Online Exclusives 'Future-Proof' Bacterial Method Removes Phosphorus From Warmer Wastewater

Singapore Center for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and the National University of Singapore, have...

July 19, 2022

Editorial Tapping the Minds of Future Water Problem Solvers: Xylem Rewards Innovative Thinking

The water and wastewater sector depends on a new generation of devoted professionals to replace those retiring by the thousands. And solutions to...

July 13, 2022

Online Exclusives Direct Oxidative Transfer Process Contributes to Water Purification

A research team led by professor Yu Hanqing from the University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of...

July 06, 2022

Online Exclusives Student Innovators From 51 Countries Compete to Solve Global Water Issues

More than 800 high school and university students from around the globe accepted the challenge from water technology leader, Xylem, to take...

July 05, 2022

Junior Stockholm California John And Pauline Estrada

Online Exclusives California Students Win U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize for Drought-Stress Detection Project

The Water Environment Federation has announced that John Benedict Estrada and Pauline Victoria Estrada, siblings from Clovis North High School in California,...

June 30, 2022