Enzymes from fungi growing on trees filter out medicine residues from sewage and drinking water Months of painstaking work in the laboratory at Bielefeld University‘s Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec) have paid off: the 15 students [...]

A Qatari engineer has come up with a device that could prove to be a boon to the arid regions of the world by producing water from humidity in the air. The advantages of “Agri [...]

The nano-velcro technology is far cheaper than conventional heavy metal measurement techniques While progress has been made in reducing the amount of heavy metal pollution, the very nature of heavy metal contamination means it continues [...]

MIT researchers devise a surprisingly simple but effective method for magnetically separating oil and water. MIT researchers have developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and water that could be used to clean up [...]

Virtual engineering allowed research and development to proceed simultaneously. Together with the specialty chemicals company LANXESS, Fraunhofer researchers have engineered and built a system in record time, which produces reverse osmosis membrane elements for water [...]

This project is intended to bring good drinking water to the families in the developing countries at no operating cost Designer Gabriele Diamanti has created a solar oven called the Eliodomestico that can make salt [...]

You would think we humans would have an innate alliance with water. As Isaac continues to pour down rain on the Gulf Coast and test New Orleans’s new flood-prevention system, there are lessons we can [...]

A French invention which has been a long time in development now has the wings to be a world beater, and is dripping with promise Every once in a while an invention crops up with [...]

Wastewater can be readily turned back to freshwater, if only cultural concerns can be allayed If one were to suggest that wastewater could be used as an efficient source of fresh water, a likely rejoinder [...]

Irrigation has helped farmers feed a population that has now reached 7 billion people. But in many places farmers have overused underground aquifers that have taken thousands of years to form, drawing down the fossil [...]

Access to drinking water is a major issue in the developing world, especially in Africa, where dirty water kills more people than violence. Solar water purification is a tried and true method of using UV [...]

Computer simulations indicate graphene desalination membranes could vastly outperform existing reverse-osmosis systems The earth harbors about 1.4 billion cubic kilometers of water. Unfortunately, the vast majority of that water comes from the sea and is [...]