Engineering
Access to clean drinking water is essential for healthy communities, but delivering that water is growing increasingly difficult for many utilities. Corroding pipes and land shifts in aging water distribution networks can ...
May 11, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Freshwater is essential for human life and the scarcity of freshwater is a critical issue in parts of the world today. In recent years, scientists have put great efforts into developing desalination technologies so that clean ...
Apr 20, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
People are increasingly trying to grow both food and clean energy on the same land to help meet the challenges of climate change, drought and a growing global population that just topped 8 billion. This effort includes agrivoltaics, ...
Dec 6, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
In "Star Wars," Luke Skywalker grows up on the hot desert planet Tatooine. His family owns a moisture farm that uses devices called "vaporators" to pull drinking water from the air.
Nov 26, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Alcohols are used to remove impurities on the surface of semiconductors or electronics during the manufacturing process, and wastewater containing alcohols is treated using reverse osmosis, ozone, and biological decomposition. ...
Oct 19, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Coastal urban centers around the world are urgently looking for new, sustainable water sources as their local supplies become less reliable. In the U.S., the issue is especially pressing in California, which is coping with ...
Sep 22, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Carlsberg recently won a Global Water Award for the world's best water project in the industry category. The award is one of the highest recognitions that you can receive in the global water sector, and it was given for a ...
Sep 16, 2022
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Engineering
While on missions without access to clean water, U.S. Marines face the challenge of procuring and storing enough drinking water to sustain them. Penn State researchers, led by Chris Arges, Penn State associate professor of ...
Sep 8, 2022
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Engineering
Clean water is essential for human survival. However, less than 3% of fresh water can be used as drinking water. According to a report published by the World Meteorological Organization, there is scarcity of drinking water ...
Aug 25, 2022
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Engineering
Access to clean drinking water is fundamental to our health and wellbeing, and a universal human right. But almost 200,000 Australians are still forced to use water contaminated with unsafe levels of various chemicals and ...
Aug 25, 2022
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