Nov
2024
Global freshwater abruptly dropped in 2014 and has still not fully recovered
During times of drought, along with increasing water utilization by agriculture and cities, freshwater levels decline. However, data delivered by NASA satellites show an abrupt drop of global freshwater levels worldwide ...
Nov
2024
Climate-resilient water management in a heated world
The German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) presented it's report 'Water in a heated world' in October. The report is calling on national and international water policy to adapt to the accelerated changes in the ...
Nov
2024
Drought Finance Tracker ‘2.0’ launched
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Land and Water Division has launched the second version of its Drought Finance Tracker, a tool designed to monitor country-level financial flows ...
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Nov
2024
Flood forecasting with AI: fast and accurate
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA, NZ) is using machine learning to forecast flood inundations in a fraction of the time required to run physical models − namely one to two minutes instead ...
Nov
2024
Trump’s return: a watershed shift in U.S. water policy
The re-election of Donald Trump as U.S. President brings profound changes to American water policy. Unlike the previous Biden administration, which focused on sustainability, climate protection, and public investment in ...
Nov
2024
40th UN-Water Meeting: Central discussions and key information
The 40th UN-Water Meeting was held at UN Headquarters in New York, from 4-5 November 2024. The event focused on the importance of water in accelerating progress as well as on the linkages between the water agenda and ...
Nov
2024
Water resilience: European water companies call for digital transformation
Thirteen water companies have issued a joint statement, supporting the forthcoming European Water Resilience Strategy. The document emphasizes the critical role that digitalization must play in transforming the water ...
Nov
2024
Project will develop roadmap for creation of a digital twin of the European hydrosphere
The IDEATION project, which kicked off in June 2024, will spend the next two years developing a roadmap for the European Commission. This roadmap includes a reference architecture, use cases and recommendations for the ...
Nov
2024
Study shows that extracting high-value products from wastewater is possible
A group of Danish and Dutch researchers is on the way to revolutionizing what biomass from wastewater treatment plants can be used for. They show in a recently published scientific article how biopolymers from bacteria ...
Nov
2024
EU-Kommunalabwasserrichtlinie (KARL) final verabschiedet
Am 5. November 2024 hat der EU-Ministerrat die neue Kommunalabwasserrichtlinie (KARL) final beschlossen. Die Verbände der Wasserwirtschaft in Deutschland werten diesen Schritt als umweltökonomischen Meilenstein – ...
Nov
2024
Printfrastructure innovation project shares successes
Leaders of the Water Industry Printfrastructure project, a pioneering project to develop 3D printed infrastructure and components for the water sector, will be sharing insights from five years of research on a Webinar ...
Nov
2024
Engineers developed a desalination system that requires solely sunlight
MIT engineers (USA) have built a new desalination system that runs with the rhythms of the sun. The system requires no extra batteries and doesn’t need expensive energy storage for times without sunshine, being ...
Okt
2024
Stormwater Europe 2024 Exhibition & Conference
The Stormwater Europe 2024 Exhibition & Conference will take place on December 11-12 in Amsterdam (NL). With a focus on 'Green Infrastructure,' the event will give stormwater experts and environmental professionals the ...
Okt
2024
New tool will allow ecosystems management on a global scale
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO, CH) recently announced the launch of the proof-of-concept of the Global Ecosystems Atlas, a harmonized resource dedicated to mapping and monitoring all the world’s ecosystems. ...
Okt
2024
Global water crisis may influence drastically world food production
A new report released by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water (GCEW) states that the water cycle is increasingly out of balance on a global scale, having critical consequences for the world economy and ...
Okt
2024
AMR: city birds are victims and disseminators at the same time
Research led by scientists from Oxford University (UK) has found that wild birds living close to humans are likely to carry bacteria with antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This creates an urgent need to consider the ...
Okt
2024
Slurry and digestate treatment now under new name
“Kumac” becomes “Weltec Blue Water”: With this new name, the company Weltec Biopower is responding to international market requirements for its tried and tested slurry and digestate treatment systems. The ...
Okt
2024
Atmospheric water harvesting: scientists present cooling system that works on gravity
Researchers from the Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) designed a cooling system which extracts water from the air using nothing more than gravity and relies on cheap, readily available ...
Okt
2024
PFAS: European Commission restricts use of a sub-group of chemicals
Late September the Commission has adopted new measures under the REACH Regulation – the EU chemicals legislation –, restricting the use of undecafluorohexanoic acid (‘PFHxA') and PFHxA‑related substances. These ...
Okt
2024
SDG 6: Is there still a chance to meet the targets by 2030?
Aiming to monitor progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6), UN-Water conducts periodically indicator reports on each target. Results of the 2024 series of reports show that there was overall some ...
Okt
2024
Wastewater: Salt Lake City to raise the bar in biological treatment
The Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility (CVWRF) in Salt Lake City (USA) will play a pivotal role in the sustainable management of water resources in the region. The facility will employ a multi-stage treatment ...
Okt
2024
Wastewater pipes: Concrete is ecologically better than plastic
Wastewater pipes made of concrete, steel concrete and four types of plastic have been compared within a life cycle assessment conducted by Fraunhofer UMSICHT (Germany). The results: depending on the inner diameter, ...
Okt
2024
The finalists of Earthshot Prize 2024
On September 24th, at the third-annual Earthshot Innovation Summit, The Earthshot Prize unveiled its fourth cohort of Prize Finalists, an inspiring group of global innovators, entrepreneurs, community leaders and ...
Sep
2024
SeeKaquA: Drone will search for groundwater in the Kalahari
In the German-African project SeeKaquA, researchers aim to detect deep groundwater resources in the Kalahari Desert using state-of-the-art drone-based electromagnetics. The project has now officially started, and the ...
Sep
2024
Biowater Technology to become part of Uniwater group
Uniwater has entered into an agreement to acquire Biowater Technology, a Norwegian specialist in water treatment technologies and projects. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals and is expected to ...
Sep
2024
Advancing water treatment for greenhouses
Michigan State University professor Tom Fernandez is leading groundbreaking research on efficient water treatment methods for greenhouses. By developing bioreactor systems, his team aims to reduce nutrient runoff and ...
Sep
2024
WEFTEC: 97th edition will take place early October
WEFTEC, the Water Environment Federation's Technical Exhibition and Conference, offers water quality professionals a wide range of education and training possibilities. This year’s conference will take place from ...