Entries Tagged Research

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced $6,198,689 in funding for five grants to support research on existing and novel surrogates for...

Around 34 billion gallons of water go down the drain every day. Could some of it be recycled into drinking water in...

Water-related hazards like floods and droughts are increasing because of climate change. The number of people suffering water stress is expected to...

U.S. National Science Foundation-funded scientists at Tufts University have developed a new filtering technology inspired by biology that could help curb a drinking water-related...

Students from Monash University Chemical Engineering have used the nature’s water treatment cycle as inspiration to develop a sustainable, stand-alone water treatment...

Joe Gauthier, an assistant professor of chemical engineering in the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering at Texas Tech University, partnered with a team of researchers...

Rare earth elements are finding their way into Colorado water supplies, driven by changes in climate, finds a new study published in the journal Environmental...

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a balance sheet for water across the United States — tracking total...

Ural Federal University (UrFu) power engineers in Russia have developed a new desalination technology. The new technology could significantly reduce the cost of...

A $1.3 million grant from the Department of Defense's Environmental Security Technology Certification Program will allow University of Arizona researchers to further...

Small pieces of plastic are everywhere, stretching from urban environments to pristine wilderness. And left to their own devices, it can take...

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have conducted two of the first studies in New England to collectively show that per-and...

Whether wastewater is full of “waste” is a matter of perspective. “Why is it waste?” asks Zhen (Jason) He, professor in the Department...

When it comes to ensuring that a community has clean drinking water, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. Urban and rural communities have...