Contaminant Removal News

  1. Siemens Signs Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU) With HELIOZ To Provide Safe Drinking Water To Khartoum And Kosti, Sudan 7/31/2020

    Siemens and HELIOZ collaborate to provide safe drinking water in Sudan; Siemens will sponsor a “WASH” campaign to provide water to marginalized Sudanese residents; easy-to-use solution for water disinfection, WADI will be implemented.

  2. Drinking Water Cleanup On Long Island 7/22/2020

    On Long Island, water districts and authorities must rely on groundwater for their drinking water supply. Due to industrial manufacturing, 1,4-Dioxane penetrated the groundwater via a spill or straight disposal of the chemical onto the soil.

  3. Lasers Etch An Efficient Way To Address Global Water Crisis 7/13/2020

    Amid the coronavirus pandemic, people in developed countries are assured of ample supplies of clean water to wash their hands as often as needed to protect themselves from the virus. And yet, nearly a third of the world’s population is not even assured of clean water for drinking.

  4. Boron Nitride Destroys PFAS 'Forever' Chemicals PFOA, GenX 7/10/2020

    Rice University chemical engineers found an efficient catalyst for destroying PFAS “forever” chemicals where they least expected.

  5. Purifying Water With The Help Of Wood, Bacteria And The Sun 7/8/2020

    According to the United Nations, about one-fifth of the world’s population lives in areas where water is scarce. Therefore, technologies to produce clean water from undrinkable sources, such as seawater, river or lake water, and contaminated water, are urgently needed. Now, researchers reporting in Nano Letters have developed a wood-based steam generator that, with the help of bacterial-produced nanomaterials, harnesses solar energy to purify water.

  6. Searching For The Silver Lining In Drinking Water Disinfection 7/7/2020

    As workplaces prepare to reopen, precautionary measures like plexiglass barriers and sanitizer stations have been put in place to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

  7. Mobile Water Treatment Systems Market Set To Grow 2.4X By 2030; Revenue Growth Faces A Slight Slowdown During Pandemic, Finds Fact.MR 7/1/2020

    The mobile water treatment systems market is estimated to be valued at US$ 1,543.1M in 2020 and add value worth US$ 1,952.0M during the forecast period (2020-2030).

  8. Researchers Uncover New Environmentally Friendly Approach To Water Treatment 6/29/2020

    Researchers from Swansea University have developed a new environmentally friendly method for removing toxic chemicals from water.

  9. Northumbrian Water Uses Powerful Ultraviolet Light To Transform Water Treatment 6/25/2020

    Northumbrian Water is set to begin using an innovative ultraviolet light disinfection process to clean drinking water at one of its large water treatment works for the first time.

  10. Our Drinking Water Was Always Full Of Microbes. Are The Wrong Ones Thriving In The Pandemic? 6/25/2020

    It’s been months. And from rats turning hangry because of coronavirus shutdowns in the U.S., to sea turtles reclaiming tourist beaches in Thailand, life has changed dramatically across the planet.