Jan
2021
World Water Week 2021 online
The world’s leading annual water event, World Water Week, will be revamped to help solve global problems after the pandemic. The week will be held on 23-27 August as a digital meeting place where people across the ...
Dez
2020
Survey reveals Covid-19 impact on water supply chain
Large parts of the UK water and wastewater supplier community have seen a fall in business turnover during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to findings of a British Water impact survey, published on November 25, ...
Dez
2020
How nutrient monitoring can help water quality
Nutrient levels in streams, river, and lakes are expected to grow with increased population growth through urban stormwater runoff, agriculture runoff, and municipal wastewater discharges. The resulting nitrate and ...
Nov
2020
Water program creates opportunities for European technology companies
A program developed by the Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA) for the Australian and New Zealand water industries will create opportunities for innovative, European technology ...
Nov
2020
Vattenfall´s hydro power runs Finnish supercomputer
As part of a pan-European initiative one of three leadership-class supercomputers, LUMI, will be located at CSC’s data center in Kajaani, Finland. LUMI is one of the fastest supercomputers in the world and will run on ...
Nov
2020
Global consultancies develop net zero 2030 routemap for UK water
Water industry experts from Ricardo and Mott MacDonald have collaborated to create a pioneering strategy that will guide the UK water industry to achieve net zero carbon emissions by ...
Nov
2020
Atlas shows how global surface water resources have changed throughout the last decades
The Atlas of Global Surface Water Dynamics by the EU Joint Research Centre (JRC) is based on 35 years of satellite data. It provides a better understanding of the impacts of climate change and human action on the ...
Nov
2020
Self-watering soil could transform farming
A new type of soil created by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin (US) can pull water from the air and distribute it to plants, potentially expanding the map of farmable land around the globe to previously ...
Nov
2020
Engineers devise new method to remove E. coli from water
Engineers at Monash University (AU) have come up with an improved method to remove potentially deadly bacteria, such as E. coli, from water using graphitic carbon nitride and ...
Okt
2020
Zeolite filter material removes perfluorated chemicals from water
Bioscience engineers of KU Leuven have discovered a new method to filter harmful perfluorinated chemicals from water. So-called PFAS, used, for example, in non-stick pans and water-repellent clothing, do not degrade and ...
Okt
2020
Eutrophication of lakes is shown by sediment microorganisms even decades later
A joint study by ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science (Eawag) has revealed that the community of bacteria in lake sediments is heavily influenced by anthropogenic over-fertilization. This can be ...
Okt
2020
Water giant in France: Will Veolia succeed to take over Suez?
Since several months, French concern Suez has fought against being taken over by Veolia. On October 5, 2020 Veolia bought the 29,9% stake from the energy company Engie and announced a further offer of about 11 billion ...
Okt
2020
Public or private? – Water services in European countries
Water services are essential services. Their organization differs from country to country in Europe due to history, cultural heritage and national or local transitions. The new report “The governance of water service ...
Okt
2020
WRF announces 2020 Paul L. Busch Award winner
The Water Research Foundation (WRF) announced that Dr. Shihong Lin is the recipient of the 2020 Paul L. Busch $100,000 research prize. With this funding, Dr. Lin will advance water separation technologies to address the ...
Sep
2020
Research for sustainable groundwater management in Europe
Groundwater is the most important drinking water resource worldwide. However, the conservation of this valuable resource is neglected both locally and globally. The junior research group "regulate", led by ISOE – ...
Sep
2020
Handbook on the economic potential of water, sanitation and hygiene policies
The Sanitation and Water for All global partnership (SWA) released early in September a handbook that compiles best practices and guidance on the use of public funding and mobilizing new financing for water, sanitation ...
Sep
2020
DuPont wins exclusive sales rights for the water degassing technology from Sun Chemical
Sun Chemical and its parent company, the DIC Corporation, have entered into an agreement to establish a strategic partnership with DuPont aimed at expanding global sales of degassing modules for water treatment. Under ...
Sep
2020
RIWA-Rijn: improve discharge permits for a cleaner Rhine
In 2019, dozens of substances such as industrial chemicals, drug residues, pesticides and degradation products have again been found in the Rhine. These substances had higher concentrations than the target values of the ...
Aug
2020
Remote access: utilities’ greatest ally during Covid-19 lockdowns
According to a report released recently, water utilities who already had remote access to their systems were at an advantage when Covid-19 lockdowns were introduced around the ...
Aug
2020
Study describes technique to estimate groundwater use
Over-allocation of surface water for growing food crops is shifting agriculture and other industry to use groundwater – which is much more difficult to measure and monitor. A study conducted by Australian researchers ...
Aug
2020
Netherlands: utility encourages landowners to retain water
Waterschap Valleie en Veluwe, located in Apeldoorn (NL), provides up to 400,000 € to support landowners who install devices that help retaining water on their land. 2020 is the third year in a row with severe drought ...
Aug
2020
FAO publication on remote sensing for water productivity
To monitor the performance of water use in agriculture the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed a database using satellite data called WaPOR. A new WaPOR publication providing the ...
Aug
2020
Monitoring groundwater changes more precisely
Researchers from GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, and a geologist from Oberlin College, USA, combined satellite-based measurement data with other methods to quantify groundwater amounts. As a result, ...
Jul
2020
Brackish water and seawater become fresh water resources in Zeeland and Flanders
Desalination is well-known as strategy to produce freshwater in the arid southern European countries. Due to climate change leading to droughts, industry, agriculture and water works in Belgium and the Netherlands have ...
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