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Dec 2014/Jan 2015
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We're Running Out Of Water As California's drought worsened, just north of San Diego a massive seawater desalination plant-moved closer to completion.   |
Popular Mechanics
February 5, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Plumbing the Planet: The 5 Biggest Projects Taking on the World's Water Supply Around the world, countries are trying to combat water supply problems with ever-more-clever engineering: bigger and badder treatment plants, pipelines, tunnels and reservoirs. Here are five projects hoping to be big and bad enough. |
Chemistry World
February 2012 |
Keeping the tap on James Mitchell Crow investigates routes to quenching our thirst without costing the Earth. |
Inc.
November 2008
Adam Bluestein |
Blue is the New Green The world is running out of clean water. The prospect of widespread shortages is creating a new kind of new economy. Meet 11 entrepreneurs who are ahead of the curve, finding opportunity in the largest emerging market the world has seen in some time. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
Michael Milstein |
6 Radical Solutions for U.S. Southwest's Peak Water Problem Increased usage and years of drought are diminishing the Colorado River's flow. States that rely on that water are forming strategies to deal with the problem. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Sally Adee |
Eight Technologies for Drinkable Seawater Desalination takes too much energy, but emerging technologies will help |
Geotimes
May 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Natural Boron Contamination in Mediterranean Groundwater Within the past few decades, the water quality in many of the coastal aquifers along the Mediterranean Sea has rapidly degraded. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2008
Sarah Adee |
New Water Technology Headed for Parched Places Capacitive deionization to debut in drought-struck Australia. |
IDB America
May 2004
Daniel Drosdoff |
Barbados Acts to Prevent Water Crisis Geography and the tourism industry complicate the island's efforts to secure freshwater supplies. |
IDB America
August 2005
Daniel Drossdoff |
From the Sea to the Kitchen How a new desalination technology is easing The Bahamas' age-old water problems. The plant was constructed on a build-own-operate contract and sells its entire production to The Bahamas Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC). |
BusinessWeek
March 10, 2011
Caroline Winter |
Innovator: Robert McGinnis of Oasys Water The former Navy diver was dismayed by how much energy it takes to desalinate seawater. So he developed a more efficient process. |
Wired
April 21, 2008
Matthew Power |
Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping. Water has been a serious issue in the developing world for so long, but the scarcity of freshwater is no longer a problem restricted to poor countries. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 17, 2005
Garry Emmons |
Turning on the Tap: Is Water the Next Oil? Many competing forces lead some experts to believe that water will replace petroleum as the twenty-first century's core commodity, with nations rich in water enjoying enormous social and economic advantages over those that are not. |
Popular Mechanics
October 23, 2009
Tyghe Trimble |
Wave Power Desalination Plant Coming Soon to Texas With seawater filtered with energy from wave power filling corn-based plastic bottles, I have as close as you can get to environmentally friendly bottled water. |
Chemistry World
August 7, 2008 |
Making Seawater Easier to Swallow Researchers based in the US and Korea have developed a membrane that cuts the costs of filtering salt from seawater. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Jean Kumagai |
Australia's Drought-Busting Water Grid In the driest continent, saving water means spending watts |
Food Engineering
July 30, 2009
Kevin T. Higgins |
Water Efficiency: Don't Let Your Liquid Assets Go Down the Drain Food processors confront both financial and behavioral issues when they implement green water practices. |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2011
Rebecca Lipman |
Water Shortages: Here Are the U.S. Companies to Watch So as long as water shortages continue to plague wealthy regions investors might want to consider the possibility of tracking utility stocks exposed to the trend. |
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2011
Rebecca Lipman |
Desalination: China's Next Growth Industry? Do you think these names have something to gain from China's determination to grow the desalination industry? |
Salon.com
August 28, 2002
Suzy Hansen |
Not a drop to drink Forget oil -- an expert on the world's water supply talks about the vital substance we will hoard, ration and probably go to war for in the near future. |
Chemistry World
March 18, 2011
Rebecca Brodie |
Simple salt removal to get fresh water Scientists in the US have developed a membrane-free, solvent extraction method to remove salt from seawater that works at low temperatures. |
National Defense
December 2012
Dan Parsons |
Water, Water Everywhere ... That Troops Can't Drink Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with saying that an army marches on its stomach. But an even more important tactical necessity than food is the availability of clean drinking water. |
Chemistry World
June 10, 2012
Jon Cartwright |
Electrode dip to freshen up saltwater Producing freshwater from brackish water could be cheaper and easier than previously thought, according to researchers who have developed a new technique for desalination. |
Fast Company
February 2009
Anya Kamenetz |
GE's New Ecomagineer Spills It Green innovation has helped buoy GE -- revenue at its Ecomagination division rose 21%. A conversation with Steve Fludder, Ecomagination's new chief. |
Chemistry World
January 22, 2015
Katie Lian Hui Lim |
Switching desalination plants from carbon dioxide source to sink A new process has been proposed to decompose waste desalination brine using solar energy that could allow desalination plants to act as a sink rather than a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and help to neutralize ocean acidity. |
The Motley Fool
January 3, 2012
Jacob Roche |
Your Portfolio Needs Water! Water is perhaps our most precious commodity but is often overlooked as an investment. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Is Water Recession-Proof? Water is the most precious commodity on the planet, but is it a good investment? |
National Defense
March 2011
Grace V. Jean |
Commercial Ferries Paving Way For Joint High Speed Vessel For insight into how a forthcoming joint high speed vessel might be employed by the Marine Corps, one can look at how leathernecks in Third Marine Expeditionary Force are operating the leased High Speed Vessel WestPac Express. |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
GE Aims to Make Waves Using wind to make clean water could be a winning combination for GE. |
