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Freshwater is vital to human survival. York University researchers have now created a public water quality database for some 12,000 freshwater lakes globally – almost half of the world’s freshwater supply – that will...
Researchers have found that seawater can replace freshwater to make the sustainable fuel bioethanol, reducing the extremely high water footprint associated with production. Bioethanol is one of the best fuel alternatives because it is...
In order to halt the decline of species and habitats in freshwaters, researchers at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) are...
The U.S Department of Energy announced that it will allocate new funding to develop solar desalination technologies to help create freshwater from otherwise unusable waters in a more affordable manner. Desalination treats seawater, brackish...
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...
A new study has found that dams and irrigation raise the global human consumption of freshwater to a much higher level than previously thought. Researchers from Stockholm University are warning that humankind has already...
Lake Titicaca in the Andes between the border of Peru and Bolivia has become so dirty that fish, birds and other animals are dying en masse. Climate change is only worsening the situation. The...
By Michael Gillings Humans pollute the world with many chemicals and some of these affect living things, even at very low concentrations. Endocrine-disrupting compounds, which interfere with hormones, are a good example, but recently...
Only one in ten Alpine rivers are able to maintain sufficient water supply for the 14 million people that depend on these sources of fresh water, according to a report by WWF. In its...
By 2025, China will have more than 200 cities with more than one million inhabitants, which will cause urban demand for water to increase by 70 to 100 per cent. And yet 60 per...
