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Researchers have significantly boosted the output from a system that can extract drinkable water directly from the air even in dry regions, using heat from the sun or another source. The system brings the...
Fracking chemicals could cause infertility, cancer, and birth defects. A new app is helping expose these chemicals in drinking water. Exposure to hydraulic fracturing fluid in drinking water has been shown to increase the...
Improvements in electrodialysis technology are creating new ways of producing freshwater. An EU-funded initiative can provide up to 2,000 litres of fresh drinking water per day. UNESCO estimates that around 2.2 billion people...
A passive solar-powered system has achieved a new level of efficiency in harnessing sunlight to make fresh drinking water from seawater. Such systems could potentially serve off-grid arid coastal areas to provide an efficient,...
If water is the essence of life, it is vital to rehydrate with the cleanest option available. Despite tap water having an environmentally smaller footprint than bottled water, it contains traces of fertilisers, pesticides,...
Cities around the world are facing shortages of drinking water, and the problem is only expected to worsen with climate change and prolonged dry spells. Researchers are now looking for solutions that capture and...
Railway stations across the UK will soon have free drinking water stations as part of an initiative to reduce the use of plastic waste and encourage riders to refill their own water bottles. Network...
A fear of dying plays a role in our decision to buy bottled water, even though we know it may not be good for us or the planet, a study from the University of...
The European Union wants to give millions of people across Europe better access to safer tap water. Better management of drinking water would avoid unnecessary loss of water, reduce plastic waste and contribute to lowering the CO2 footprint. The...
People around the world may be consuming up to 4,000 microparticles of plastic from tap water every year, a groundbreaking study based on samples from 14 countries has revealed. The survey analyzed 159 tap...
Nearly two billion people worldwide are at risk of contracting cholera, dysentery, typhoid or polio from drinking contaminated water. World health authorities are calling for a ‘radical’ increase in water and sanitation investments. Countries...
Researchers at the Eawag aquatic research institute in Switzerland have proposed sustainable urban water management concepts that could facilitate the recovery of nutrients from urine. The systems are currently being tested in the NEST...
92,000 thousand people on both sides of the Canada-US border have signed a petition calling on the Canadian government to reject a proposal to store nuclear waste in an underground vault near the Great...
The governor of Michigan has declared a state of emergency in Flint, the state’s fourth-largest city. Lead levels in the city’s drinking water are too high. But this is no isolated incident in the...
Only a small amount of the groundwater used by humans can be replenished in the next 50 years, which means that one of the most important resources on planet Earth will become scarce, according...
To cope with rapid urbanisation, poor water management and heavy precipitation brought on my climate change, China is embracing the idea of sponge cities in which almost every drop of rainwater is harvested for...
Common household products like cleansers, personal care products and food packaging are responsible for a flood of potentially dangerous new pollutants making their way into our drinking water, warns an international expert in environmental...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that fracking does not result in long-term damages to drinking water. While the oil and gas industry feels vindicated, environmentalists say that the study lacked key data....
One of the main pipelines in the city of Portland, Oregan uses pipes that harvest energy as water flows through them. Unlike hydropower, the technology reportedly has no environmental impact. According to an article...
Mineral coatings on sand particles encourage microbial activity in the rapid sand filters that are used to treat groundwater for drinking, according to a new study. The findings, published in the paper Applied and...
