An MIT engineer working toward clean drinking water in Nepal describes in a recent issue of the Journal of International Development how people from developed and developing countries can work together to solve key humanitarian problems, ultimately meeting the basic human needs for security, broadly defined.

University of Delaware researchers have developed an inexpensive, nonchlorine-based technology that can remove harmful microorganisms, including viruses, from drinking water.

General Electric Company (GE) today announced the launch of the company's innovative ecomagination initiative in India - designed to bring to market new technologies that will help customers address their most pressing environmental challenges such as the need for cleaner, more efficient sources of energy, reduced emissions and abundant sources of clean water.

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services issued guidance today on the safety of water in private wells during a power outage. Private water wells experiencing power loss during the recent power outages in Missouri are not at the same risk as a public water system.

Laboratory filtration system kills 100 percent of dangerous microbes in water taken from Hurricane Katrina disaster

Professor Lewis Rothberg of the University of Rochester Chemistry Department received a NYSTAR grant in August 2006 to continue working on a recent discovery by Huixiang Li, a research associate in his group: how to rapidly test DNA to improve our health and make sure we're drinking clean water and eating uncontaminated food.

Water treatment and reuse are very important issues for both developed and developing countries.