How to Keep your valve new
What is a valve?
A valve is a piping system component that controls the flow of the fluid through the system.This is accomplished through the manipulation of an obstructer within the valve.
Actuated valves use mechanical devices known as…
Research disinficts water using “quantum dots”
In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a Chinese research team presented a straightforward new method of disinfection.
It is based on tiny biocompatible atom assemblies called quantum dots, which are formed of silver sulfide and have peptide…
Nile River Delta is in danger according to latest studies
According to new research from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, extensive heavy metal pollution, coastal erosion, and seawater intrusion pose an existential threat to the Nile River Delta and endanger 60 million people (roughly twice…
Jacobs to construct $500 million water treatment facility in Los Angeles
Jacobs has been chosen as the forward-thinking design-build contractor for the Donald C. Tillman Advanced Water Purification Facility by LA Sanitation and Environment (LASAN) and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) (AWPF).…
Researchers develop catalyst that purifies herbicide-tainted water and produces hydrogen
An innovation developed by researchers at Oregon State University's College of Science which is a catalyst that produces hydrogen while simultaneously purifying water contaminated by herbicides.
The project is significant since water…
American Water gains ownership of Navy Station wastewater assets
The utility privatization contract for Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Florida is worth approximately $341 million over a 50-year period.
As part of the first utilities privatization contract with the U.S. Navy in the company's…
Historic agreement to protect the oceans
In a statement released late Saturday night by his spokesperson, the UN chief hailed the agreement as "a victory for multilateralism and for global efforts to counter the destructive trends facing ocean health, now and for generations to…
European Investment Bank report urges public sector to address microplastics in water
A new paper on "Microplastics and Micropollutants in Water" was released by the European Investment Bank (EIB), the lending arm of the European Union, during the Our Ocean Conference in Panama.
The paper describes the harmful effects…
How climate change impacts water availability
Climate chanfge is now clearly affects global air circulation, which in turn affects the amount of water that is available in rivers for local consumption through changes in precipitation and evaporation.
The sensitivity with which water…
Ocean spray includes sewage bacteria
Ocean spray formation
When wind, whitecaps, and breaking waves mix air into the sea surface, the air regroups to form bubbles, floats to the surface, and bursts at the air-sea interface.
When they burst, they release up to a thousand…