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England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades

England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year. Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades. #drought #water #England www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Water levels below 3% in dam reservoirs for Iran’s second city, say reports Storage dwindles in Mashhad, home to 4 million people, as country struggles with drought

Water levels at the dam reservoirs supplying Iran’s north-eastern city of Mashhad have plunged below 3%. #Iran #water #drought #reservoir www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Mysterious black balls invade Australian beaches - scientists reveal their origin and confirm ‘ground zero’ of disaster The beaches of South Wales have turned black. Thousands of small black balls covered the sand and the water, but no one knew where they had come from.

Mysterious black balls invade Australian beaches – scientists reveal their origin and confirm ‘ground zero’ of disaster. #wastewater #pollution #Australila #mystery unionrayo.com/en/black-bal...

Chinese company to build wastewater treatment plant in Uzbekistan Chinese company Qingyan Environmental Technology will build a modern wastewater treatment plant in Uzbekistan, designed to recycle 60% of wastewater and convert sludge into electricity under a public-...

Chinese company to build wastewater treatment plant in Uzbekistan. #China #Uzbekistan #wastewater #infrastructure daryo.uz/en/2025/11/0...

Antibiotic resistance selection and deselection in municipal wastewater from 47 countries - Nature Communications Experiments with untreated municipal wastewaters from 47 countries showed that some samples selected for resistant E. coli, whereas non-resistant bacteria were favored in most cases, providing a nuanc...

Antibiotic resistance selection and deselection in municipal wastewater from 47 countries. #antibioticresistance #wastewater #antibiotics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wouldn't it be ironic if oil money that will finance these water projects saves the marshes?

Naomi Oreskes - Volvo Environment Prize Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes, a world-renowned earth scientist and historian, is the laureate of the 2025 Volvo Environment Prize. She is recognized for her influential work on the history of scien...

Huge congratulations to Harvard’s Naomi Oreskes for winning the Volvo prize! She is a pioneer in unmasking the financial interests and methods behind climate science denial.
I’m proud to have published with her how Exxon knew exactly what they were doing.
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Straight outa Dune but for real! Chinese research team develops world’s 1st wearable solar-powered fluidic system that harnesses human sweat for self-contained freshwater production, energy supply, & information exchange.

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Assisted colonization risk assessment Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia) are rare in their native region but threaten ecosystems in places where they have been introduced.

5/ I'm not opposed to moving certain species over small spatial scales. But the history of unintended consequences of 'well-planned' introductions, and our current predictive understanding of impacts, makes me caution against using spp introductions as a common tool. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cyprus approves fifth package to address water crisis, adds three mobile desalination units. #drought #water #desalination #Cyprus #infrastructure www.parikiaki.com/2025/11/cypr...

Wastewater surveillance detects measles in Houston before cases are reported. #measles #wastewatersurveillance #wastewater #Houston www.msn.com/en-gb/health...?

Iraq, Turkey sign deal on Iraqi water infrastructure projects Iraq signed a deal with Turkey on Sunday under which water infrastructure projects to be carried out by Turkish firms will be financed with revenue from oil sales, a Turkish official said.

Iraq, Turkey sign deal on Iraqi water infrastructure projects. #Iraq #Turkey #water #infrastructure www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of #oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in #Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more #wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply. www.propublica.org/article/okla...

New Pacific Institute Report Finds Huge Potential to Save Water Across the U.S. Through Efficiency  - Pacific Institute First-of-its-kind national assessment shows efficiency can cut municipal and industrial water use by 25% to 60%, strengthening the economy and … New Pacific Institute Report Finds Huge Potential to Sa...

First-of-its-kind national assessment shows efficiency can cut municipal and industrial water use by 25% to 60%, strengthening the economy and delivering environmental and resilience benefits. #water #efficiency #resiliency #US pacinst.org/announcement...

YouTube video by Business Insider How Bricks Made From Invasive Seaweed Clean Mexico's Beaches | World Wide Waste | Business Insider

Adobe blocks made from Sargassum seaweed. Yes, Sargassum seaweed has become a nuisance as it drifts onto beaches and decomposes and...drum roll...entrepreneur steps in to take rotting Sargassum seaweed and make building blocks for homes. #Mexico #Nature #water #Sargassum youtu.be/2fXiboAGQvM

YouTube video by Sky News Is Britain running out of water?

An expert is warning that without "fast changes" the UK could run out of drinking water in the future. #UK #water #watershortage youtu.be/JAcqPJ1IJGY

Lawmakers to Trump: Punish Mexico for missing water deadline The state’s citrus industry is at risk, farmers say, after Mexico failed to deliver water it owes Texas as part of a 1944 treaty.

Texas’ congressional delegation wants Trump to punish Mexico for missing key water deadline. #water #internationaborders #Mexico #Texas www.texastribune.org/2025/10/25/t...

Long-term enhanced nitrogen removal and power generation in high-salinity ammonium-rich wastewater treatment via heterotrophic nitrifying-aerobic denitrifying bacteria-functionalized biocathodes A lab-scale single-chamber microbial fuel cell (SCMFC) with a heterotrophic nitrifying-aerobic denitrifying bacteria (HNADB)-functionalized biocathode…

Long-term enhanced nitrogen removal and power generation in high-salinity ammonium-rich wastewater treatment via heterotrophic nitrifying-aerobic denitrifying bacteria-functionalized biocathodes. #salinity #Nremoval #nitrification www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Bioenergy Recovered from Wastewater Treatment Facilities Wastewater has emerged as a potential bioenergy resource. Previous research has largely focused on assessing individual bioenergy supply pathways and products, limiting system boundaries to recovery processes, or considering only a limited range of environmental impacts. This study evaluated the life cycle environmental impacts of three forms of bioenergy products (i.e., bioelectricity, bioheat, and biohydrogen) recovered through 27 pathways from sewage sludges at wastewater treatment facilities and benchmarked them against their conventional energy counterparts across 311 pathways. The results indicate that bioelectricity and bioheat have substantial lower global warming and fossil resource scarcity impacts than conventional energy commodities. All bioenergy products involve trade-offs in specific environmental categories, such as toxicity, eutrophication, and mineral resource depletion. This study further compared the environmental impacts of both intermediate and final forms of bioenergy products─bioelectricity, bioheat, biomethane, and biohydrogen. Bioelectricity had the highest impacts per unit energy due to exergy-based allocation, while bioheat had the lowest. With similar environmental impacts and no end-use greenhouse gas emissions, biohydrogen could be preferable to biomethane. Accounting for the multifunctional nature of anaerobic digestion, beyond bioenergy production, can further improve the environmental performance of most bioenergy pathways.

Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Bioenergy Recovered from Wastewater Treatment Facilities. #bioenergy #wastewater #heat #hydrogen pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

LA MONTE AWARDED $2.9 MILLION FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has awarded $2.9 million to the city of La Monte for upgrades to its northwest and southeast wastewater treatment facilities. The funding will cover the en...

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has awarded $2.9 million to the city of La Monte for upgrades to its northwest and southeast wastewater treatment facilities. #Missouri #infrastructure #wastewater www.kmmo.com/2025/10/24/l...

Ambient noise can track dangerous ocean acidification Acoustic technique could make it easier to monitor threat to marine life stemming from rising carbon emissions

“Researchers have now used this ambient noise to probe the rising acidity of the ocean. The acoustic technique… could make it easier to measure this key parameter of ocean health across vast distances rather than relying on point measurements.”

#scicomm

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No bunker would be able ti survive a direct nuke...not even one built during Obama's administration. The following is a quote from Quora thread.

The East Wing has a bomb shelter called the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC). It was built in 1942 during World War II to serve as a secure shelter and communications center

Circularity and Plastics: Proceedings of a Workshop Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.

#Circularity and #Plastics Proceedings of a #Workshop: approaches for sustainable life cycle management of plastic materials to mitigate plastic pollution, including reduction of plastic waste through redesign, reuse, remaking, and recycling. nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2919...

Warning from Board of Water Supply after residents encounter fake water tester A homeowner told Hawaii News Now a man wearing a black shirt with unfamiliar logos knocked on her door and asked to test her tap water.

The Honolulu Board of Water Supply is warning residents to be cautious after a man went door to door in Ewa Beach claiming he needed to test people’s tap water. #Hawaii #water #testing #laboratory www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/10/17/w...

Advances in Electric Grid Technologies and Capabilities: Webinar Series. Upcoming webinar: Hardening the Electricity Transmission and Distribution System for Increased Reliability on October 22, 2025. #electricalgrid #electricity #power #reliability www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/adv...

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.

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UA part of $38M research project to find solutions to AZ water future University of Arizona researchers are looking for ways to protect the state’s water future, including plans to treat and desalinate wastewater for new use through a reverse osmosis system spearheaded

UA part of $38M research project to find solutions to AZ water future. #Arizona #water #desalination #RO #waterfuture #drought www.pinalcentral.com/arizona_news...

Occurrence of nodularin in South African waters by high-performance liquid chromatography Nodularins are hepatotoxic cyclic pentapeptides produced by the cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena, which is frequently associated with harmful algal …

Occurrence of nodularin in South African waters by high-performance liquid chromatography. #SouthAfrica #Nodularin #HPLC #water #wastewater #cyanobacteria #cyanotoxin www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Precision engineering transforms Lagos’s red water challenge into opportunity The reddish hue that once characterised groundwater in Lagos coastal districts such as Lekki, Victoria Island and Eti-Osa is gradually diminishing, signalling a shift with both environmental and econo...

Precision engineering transforms Lagos’s red water challenge into opportunity. #Lagos #iron #groundwater #borehole #geology guardian.ng/news/precisi...