clean water

Water shortages pose challenges and opportunities for industry

harminka — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:50:25 -0500

Just as a credit crunch is reshaping the global economic landscape, an often-unheralded shortage of clean water is confronting business and industry with a range of profound new challenges and opportunities, according to an article scheduled for the October 6 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS' weekly news magazine.

New chlorine-tolerant, desalination membrane hopes to boost access to clean water

harminka — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:58:19 -0500

A chemical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin is part of a team that has developed a chlorine-tolerant membrane that should simplify the water desalination process, increasing access to fresh water and possibly reducing greenhouse gases.

Fuzzy logic water quality

harminka — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:44:50 -0500

A fuzzy logic approach to analyzing water quality could help reduce the number of people in the developing world forced to drink polluted and diseased water for survival.

Countering an Approaching Water Crisis

harminka — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:13:09 -0500

As growing demand for clean water stretches even the resources of the world's largest industrialized nations, scientists and engineers are turning to new technology and novel ideas to find solutions.

Bacteria and nanofilters — future of clean water technology

harminka — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:28:27 -0600

Bacteria often get bad press, with those found in water often linked to illness and disease. But researchers at The University of Nottingham are using these tiny organisms alongside the very latest membrane filtration techniques to improve and refine water cleaning technology.

Bacteria and nanofilters — the future of clean water technology

seher — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:00:40 -0600

Bacteria often get bad press, with those found in water often linked to illness and disease. But researchers at The University of Nottingham are using these tiny organisms alongside the very latest membrane filtration techniques to improve and refine water cleaning technology.

Boil Water Advisory Issued for City of Damar

harminka — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:28:32 -0600

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has issued a boil water advisory for the city of Damar, which is located in western Rooks County.

Assessing microbial risks in water we drink

harminka — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:51:01 -0600

It is a familiar scenario experienced around the world: an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness suddenly emerges in a community, and no one knows where it came from or how to stop it.

H2o Age Inc. Advanced Portable Water Filtration Bottles Supplied for Delta's Inaugural Flight #50 from Atlanta To Lagos, Nigeria

joycecom — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:18:38 -0600

La Jolla, California based company H2o Age Inc. supplies first Delta flight to Lagos, Nigeria with firm's state of the art portable water filtration bottles.

Peanut husks could be used clean up waste water

harminka — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:08:17 -0600

Peanut husks, one of the biggest food industry waste products, could be used to extract environmentally damaging copper ions from waste water, according to researchers in Turkey. Writing in the Inderscience publication the International Journal of Environment and Pollution, the team describes how this readily available waste material can be used to extract toxic copper ions from waste water.

Fantastic plastic could cut CO2 emissions, purify water

harminka — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:44:01 -0500

A new membrane that mimics pores found in plants has applications in water, energy and climate change mitigation.

Faculty, students to develop plan to get clean water in poorer homes

harminka — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:19:12 -0500

Faculty and students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are setting out to discover whether applying business principles to public health problems can result in solutions that will save lives in developing countries with limited access to safe drinking water.