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Nanorods ooze water in high humidity
Discovery made accidently during nanowire experiment
Type: News
Southern Water fined £330,000 after stream pollution killed 2,000 fish
A UK court has fined Southern Water £330,000 (US$416,748) for a raw sewage leak in July 2019 that killed almost 2,000 fish near areas designated to protect nature. An alarm alerted the company to an issue early in the day, but they failed to act, allowing the spill to last for as much as 20 hours.
Type: News
Keeping oil and water mixed for months
EMULSIONS that can stay stable for months have been created using a low-cost, low-energy process developed by US researchers.
Type: News
Consortium bails out Singapore water treatment firm Hyflux
TROUBLED Singapore water treatment firm Hyflux has been rescued by a S$530m (US$384m) investment by an industrial consortium formed by the Salim and Medco groups.
Type: News
Solar-powered water purification wins top IChemE Award
DESOLENATOR, a company making solar-powered water purification devices, has won the overall Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2017 IChemE Global Awards.
Type: News
UK council gets £6.5m funding for mine water energy scheme
BRIDGEND COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL in Wales, UK, has been awarded £6.5m (US$9.1m) in funding by the EU for the UK’s first large-scale mine water geothermal energy project.
Type: News
Surrey students’ clean water system wins Davidson Inventors Challenge 2025
YEAR 12 students from Surrey have scooped the top prize at the Davidson Investors Challenge 2025, for their “impressive” water filtration system.
Type: News
New integrated, net-negative system captures carbon and produces ethylene
FOCUSED on integrating technologies that capture and use CO2 in a closed loop carbon cycle, engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), US have built a small-scale machine that captures CO2 from flue gas and converts it to ethylene for use in industry.
Type: News
WATER expert Tom Stephenson says it is vital that water companies target the worst polluting releases, after the announcement of £180m (US$230.3m) in funding to clean up England’s waterways.
Type: News
3M to pay water companies up to US$12.5bn over PFAS contamination
3M will pay US public water companies up to US$12.5bn to tackle PFAS, after a district court gave final approval to a previously announced settlement agreement.
Type: News
Algae-based ‘water bottle’ crowdfunded
Alternative to plastic raises over US$1m investment
Type: News
Using a sponge made of pollen to soak up oil from contaminated water
A POLLEN-BASED sponge has been developed as a more environmentally friendly way of soaking up oil and other organic solvents from contaminated water.
Type: News
TEPCO proposes methods to dispose of treated water stored at Fukushima
TEPCO, Japan’s largest power company group, has released a report which outlines two potential methods for disposing of water treated with multi-nuclide removal equipment, that is currently being stored at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Type: News
Lummus Technologies acquires water and wastewater treatment technologies from Siemens Energy
LUMMUS Technologies has acquired water and wastewater treatment technologies from Siemens Energy along with intellectual property and copyrights, trade secrets, and research and development properties as part of the deal.
Type: News
Researchers produce jet fuel from sunlight, CO2 and water
RESEARCHERS at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, have successfully created a synthetic version of kerosene, the main ingredient in jet fuel, using solar energy, water and carbon dioxide in a fully integrated solar tower setup.
Type: News
Our Research Focus: Securing the future of water
Kariappa Karumbaiah explains how Hydroxsys hopes to place innovative membrane technology at the forefront of sustainable wastewater treatment
Type: Feature
PFAS Monitoring: Novel Approaches for Air and Water Detection
As the extent of PFAS contamination becomes clearer, Sarit Kaserzon looks at the application of new technologies in revolutionising how we monitor these persistent chemicals
Type: Feature
