Washing your car in drought-ridden California can earn you a $500 fine these days, since the process typically requires so much water as to be deemed wasteful. Fortunately, a Massachusetts-based software engineer has invented a device that makes it possible to polish your vehicle with merely 1.5 Read More...
In its fourth year of drought, with depleted aquifers and compromised farming communities, California is moving forward to securing the Pacific Ocean as a new source of water supplies. Assuming that the future will not look like the past, regulators started working on the regulatory framework for Read More...
With its 9 million inhabitants, the city of Lima, Peru, is exposed to water shortages during its seven-month long dry season. Rather than building a desalination plant, the city's water utility company, Sedapal, is to invest in conservation projects to keep the rivers flowing more reliably Read More...
We tend to think the water in our cities is polluted. Reality shows something different. Our water has been getting cleaner, leading to rises in populations of many fish. In fact, the ever cleaner waters around New York City now see such an abundance of fish that humpback whales and great white Read More...
California is currently in the thralls of a three-year drought that is the worst in the state’s history. The crisis leads to an increased focus on water recycling in southern California. The municipality is already home to the largest water recycling plant in the world that turns water sourced Read More...