Water issues

Contaminated water (23)
Desalination (60)
Water scarcity (5)

Synopsis: Domenii: Environmental challenges: Environmental challenges generale: Environmental degradation: Water issues:


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Over 60%of Saudi water comes from desalination an expensive process and the country has untapped vast,


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However, urbanisation, extensive irrigation and variations in rainfall patterns due to global climate change have led to serious water scarcity in many areas of the world.

Areas under increasing pressure from water scarcity, particularly in the summer months, include small cities and islands along the coasts of Spain, Greece and Italy

According to the European environment agency (EEA), 16 to 44 million additional people will suffer water scarcity in Southern Europe by 2070.

The EU has taken a leading role in tackling water scarcity both on a European and global scale.

the Refresh approach is more cost effective than using tanker ships where fresh water is priced around EUR 14/m3 or huge infrastructures, such as pipelines or desalination plants.


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which can act as molecular ievesto separate liquids and gases one molecule at a timeâ##a property that shows promise for applications such as water purification water desalination and gas storage.


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More importantly they found calcium sulphate salts which form in non-acidic water. They also found sulphur dioxide and hydrogen sulphide two forms of sulphur that have lost respectively


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steam-powered applications. team is important for desalination, hygiene systems, and sterilization, says Ghasemi, who led the development of the structure. specially in remote areas where the sun is the only source of energy,


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thus offer potential for the cost-effective cleanup of contaminated water and soil on a wider scale. rom the applied perspective,


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Of course the area contributes to sea level rise and therefore the findings should help researchers to understand current changes.


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The GCF is intended also to help pay for resilience-related projects such as strengthening infrastructure to withstand global warming impacts like sea level rise--efforts that are termed adaptation.


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to the problems of global warming and ocean acidification are no substitute for reducing carbon emissions.""The study could discourage investment in CDR technologies, such as carbon-sucking machines under development by Carbon Engineering in Calgary, Canada.


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and desalination plants. Now, for the first time, researchers at MIT have found a way to control this process, literally with the flick of an electrical switch.


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and desalination plants. Now, for the first time, researchers at MIT have found a way to control this process, literally with the flick of an electrical switch.


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the process that makes desalination possible. At a glance, the Naked Filter looks like any other camping water bottle.


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The authors say that the system could provide a means of removing contaminants from waternd even be tailored to enable energy-efficient desalination of seawater.


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In trials at 25 contaminated water sources in South africa, Ghana and Bangladesh, the paper successfully removed more than 99%of bacteria.

Dr Dankovich had tested already the paper in the lab using artificially contaminated water. Success there led to the field trials


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In trials at 25 contaminated water sources in South africa, Ghana and Bangladesh, the paper successfully removed more than 99%of bacteria.

in English as well as the local language Dr Dankovich had tested already the paper in the lab using artificially contaminated water.


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"We're excited about the possibility of using these micromotors to combat ocean acidification and global warming,"said Virendra V. Singh, a postdoctoral scientist in Wang's research group and a co-first author of this study.


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A person gets a schistosoma infection through contact with contaminated water. The parasite swims freely in open bodies of water.


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but other options such as using grey water rather than potable water in cooling towers can also deliver savings,


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or copper nanoparticles that kill bacteria found in contaminated water. Each page could filter 99%of bacteria

. even in highly contaminated water sources where raw sewage has been dumped. Sisters collecting untreated water from a dam.


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and desalination plants. Now, for the first time, researchers at MIT have found a way to control this process, literally with the flick of an electrical switch.


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#Magnetic Nanosorbents Eliminate Fluoride from Water Researchers from Tehran University of Medical sciences used low-cost and available raw materials for the laboratorial production of nanosorbents with high efficiency in elimination of fluoride from contaminated water.


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and policy-makers in many countries hope to reduce this below 350 ppm to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change, from increasingly severe weather events and sea level rise to global average temperature increases of 10 degrees Fahrenheit.'


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#Desalination with nanoporous graphene membrane Less than 1 percent of Earth's water is drinkable. Removing salt and other minerals from our biggest available source of water--seawater--may help satisfy a growing global population thirsty for fresh water for drinking, farming, transportation, heating, cooling and industry.

But desalination is an energy-intensive process, which concerns those wanting to expand its application.

Now, a team of experimentalists led by the Department of energy's Oak ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated an energy-efficient desalination technology that uses a porous membrane made of strong, slim graphene--a carbon honeycomb one atom thick.

The results are published in the March 23 advance online issue of Nature Nanotechnology("Water Desalination Using Nanoporous Single-layer graphene"."

To figure out the best pore size for desalination, the researchers relied on the Center for Nanophase Materials sciences (CNMS),

They determined the optimum pore size for effective desalination was 0. 5 to 1 nanometers,

They also found the optimal density of pores for desalination was one pore for every 100 square nanometers."


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part of a competition to see who could create an affordable desalination solution for developing countries.

Using the sun instead of fossil fuels to power a desalination plant isn't a totally new idea.

Larger solar desalination plants are being investigated seriously in areas where water is becoming a scarce resource,

The MIT/Jain team and their competitors tested their projects at the Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility in New Mexico,


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This could one day include water desalination, in a country that is increasingly being hit by drought as the climate warms.


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Developed by a team of researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt, the procedure uses a desalination technique called pervaporation to remove the salt from sea water

"It can effectively desalinate water with high concentration of salt like that of the Red sea, where desalination costs more and yields less."


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"The methodology is founded on molecularly dissociating water pollutants to recover the minerals necessary and sufficient in order for the human body to function properly nourished,

and after extensive testing on different types of contaminated water, implemented a unique methodology that indicates


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in collaboration with a nonprofit organisation, has designed a book with silver-impregnated pages that can be used to filter contaminated water.


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and desalination plants. Now, for the first time, researchers at MIT have found a way to control this process, literally with the flick of an electrical switch.


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and energy saving desalination technology Researchers at the Alexandria University in Egypt have developed a new desalination technology that can produce potable water at reduced energy.

Titled as'Desalination of simulated seawater by purge-air pervaporation using an innovative fabricated membrane,

"Using pervaporation eliminates the need for electricity that is used in classic desalination processes, thus cutting costs significantly."

The research team from Egypt is also working on a pilot desalination unit for testing the method on a larger scale e


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when they consume contaminated water or undercooked shellfish. Puzzled by the high rate of T. gondii infection in sea otters and other marine mammals the researchers set out to track the route of transmission.


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#Safe drinking water Via Solar power Desalination Natasha Wright, an MIT Phd student in mechanical engineering, has designed a solar powered system that makes water safe to drink for rural, off-grid Indian villages.

Wright began designing an electrodialysis desalination system, which uses a difference in electric potential to pull salt out of water.

This type of desalination system has been around since the 1950s, but is used typically only municipally, to justify its costs.

While other companies are already installing desalination systems across India, their designs are intended to be powered grid.

She designed a village-scale desalination system that runs on solar power. Since her system is powered by the sun,

But some ranchers find that even their livestock won tolerate the saltiness of this water. t useful to install a small-scale desalination system where people are


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thus offer potential for the cost-effective cleanup of contaminated water and soil on a wider scale. rom the applied perspective,


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But an increasing amount of that crude is staying in the country where it's used run to desalination and power plants.

The majority of Saudi arabia's fresh water comes from desalination, the process that turns saltwater into a drinkable supply.


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#How to Clean the Gas and Oil industries Most Contaminated water In a nondescript site in Midland, Texas, an inexpensive new process is cleaning up some of the most contaminated water aroundhe extremely salty stuff that comes up with oil at wells. By the end

The technology may provide a way to deal with the increasing amounts of contaminated water the fossil fuel industry is generating as it pursues more and more difficult-to-reach deposits.

Many oil formations can produce as much as five barrels of contaminated water for every one barrel of oil.


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#Carbon nanotube-Based Water Desalination and Purification Technology Awarded Patent Mitra's new carbon nanotube immobilized membrane (CNIM) is an energy-efficient device designed to filter higher concentrations of salt than is currently feasible through reverse osmosis, one of the standard

Membrane distillation is a water desalination process in which heated salt water passes through a tubelike membrane,


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and sanitation and desalination improved. Water filtration systems require a lot of energy due to friction at the nano-level.

The results have important implications for desalination processes and energy conservation, e g. improving the energy efficiency for desalination using reverse osmosis membranes with pores at the nanoscale level,

or energy conservation, e g. membranes with boron nitride nanotubes. Crowdsourcing the solutionthe project, initiated by IBM's World Community Grid,


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Large-scale graphene can be used for applications such as water desalination membranes and flexible electronics. raphene is more conductive than any metal we know of,

said UC San diego Nanoengineering Ph d. candidate Aliaksandr (Alex) Zaretski. t has been known for years that graphene is useful as a water desalination membrane.


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thus offer potential for the cost-effective cleanup of contaminated water and soil on a wider scale. rom the applied perspective,


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In this time of significant drought and water scarcity, the function and efficiency of this watershed is of the utmost importance.


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2015visible Light-sensitive Photocatalysts Used for Purification of Contaminated water in Iran June 30th, 2015announcements Samsung's New Graphene technology Will Double Life Of Your Lithium-Ion Battery July 1st,

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#Solar desalination (Nanowerk News) When graduate student Natasha Wright began her Phd program in mechanical engineering, she had no idea how to remove salt from groundwater to make it more palatable,

Wright began designing an electrodialysis desalination system, which uses a difference in electric potential to pull salt out of water.

This type of desalination system has been around since the 1950s, but is used typically only municipally, to justify its costs.

While other companies are already installing desalination systems across India, their designs are intended to be powered grid.

Shes designed a village-scale desalination system that runs on solar power. Since her system is powered by the sun,

Its useful to install a small-scale desalination system where people are so spread out that its more costly to pump in water from a municipal plant,


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thus offer potential for the cost-effective cleanup of contaminated water and soil on a wider scale. rom the applied perspective,


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Desalination is an environmental nightmare For those who are saying, "There's no water problem in California!

"you need to look into the catastrophic environmental destruction tied to ocean water desalination. Not only does desalination use fossil fuels

which emit the very same carbon emissions that the California government insists caused the drought in the first place,

the desalination process itself pollutes the ocean with high concentration salt brine that kills marine ecosystems


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which is primarily spread from feces to mouth via contaminated water. The researchers say that 500 pregnant women could die from the virus in the coming months


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The project results have important implications for desalination and energy conversion using salinity gradients. They can shed new light on the fundamental processes occurring in the nanoscale biological pores that funnel essential ingredients into cells. e also developed some key data processing methods


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#MIT researcher develops solar-powered desalination technology A student at Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) has designed a village-scale desalination technology that is powered by the sun

While similar desalination technologies have already been discovered, none of the available filters were able to remove the saltiness of the water post-treatment.

During her visits to rural India for the project, Wright found desalination devices were not much use to villagers.

"It's useful to install a small-scale desalination system where people are so spread out that it's more costly to pump in water from a municipal plant."


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