Rishon LeZion, five miles south of Tel Aviv, was founded in the 1880s by Jewish immigrants who fled the poverty and pogroms of Russia. Now the fourth-largest city in Israel, what was once a small farming community has become one of the most prosperous cities in the country. Drive along the Read More...
A new NRDC study shows that water heaters that use high efficiency heat pump technology — the same process that keeps your refrigerator cold — can cut the amount of electricity used to heat water by half or more, saving significant amounts of energy and money on your household Read More...
Prime Minister Miro Cerar says the country should “protect water – the 21st century’s liquid gold – at the highest legal level.” In the dystopian nightmare version of our not-too-distant future, water will be owned by nefarious corporations who dole it out for dollars. Read More...
Forty-five large investors collectively managing $1.2 trillion in assets are pressing some of the nation's largest meat producers to set policies for reducing water pollution in their feeding, slaughtering and processing operations. The investors, who are members of sustainability non-profit Read More...
Slovenia has amended its constitution to make access to drinkable water a fundamental right for all citizens and stop it being commercialised. With 64 votes in favour and none against, the 90-seat parliament added an article to the EU country’s constitution saying “everyone has the Read More...
Scientists have found a way to engineer the atomic-scale chemical properties of a water-splitting catalyst for integration with a solar cell, and the result is a big boost to the stability and efficiency of artificial photosynthesis. Share: FULL STORY Scientists have found a way to engineer the Read More...
Australia-based company Carnegie Wave Energy (CWE) will bring their wave power and desalination technology to Wave Hub in Cornwall, England. The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) granted 9.6 million pounds, around $11.8 million, to CWE for the first phase of their Wave Hub project. Read More...
Satellite data that helps fight cholera. Forecasts that help farmers flee monsoons. Models that predict how shifting rivers can affect drinking water. Scientists worldwide are developing technologies like these to tackle the planet's biggest water challenges, such as the lack of clean water for 1.2 Read More...
Desalination plants help to solve drinking water shortages. However, they need a lot of energy and they spit concentrated brine back into marine ecosystems. That’s why two engineers have created a floating wave-powered desalination buoy that performs reverse osmosis while bobbing in the sea to Read More...
Every ten seconds someone in the world dies from a waterborne disease. That makes clean drinking water one of the most precious ingredients to sustain life. However, in many developing countries clean water is rare. That’s why the Source from Zero Mass Water is such great invention. It’s a Read More...