Drinking Water Videos
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National Alliance For Water Innovation: Reimagining Desalination
6/21/2019
Water and energy are inextricably linked, yet in our 20th-century water systems we use freshwater once then throw it away. With innovations designed to enhance desalination technologies, agricultural runoff, produced water from industry, and inland brackish groundwater that are now seen as untreatable could all be sources of clean, safe, and affordable water.
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Webinar: Optimize Mixed Bed & EDI Systems With Integrated Membrane System Designs
1/20/2017
Discover how integrated membrane system designs can maximize the operating stability of EDI systems and reduce mixed bed regeneration frequency.
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Kate Orff: Reviving New York's Rivers -- With Oysters!
12/7/2018
Architect Kate Orff sees the oyster as an agent of urban change. Bundled into beds and sunk into city rivers, oysters slurp up pollution and make legendarily dirty waters clean — thus driving even more innovation in "oyster-tecture." Orff shares her vision for an urban landscape that links nature and humanity for mutual benefit.
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How "Forever Chemicals" Polluted America’s Water
8/10/2020
North Carolina’s Cape Fear River is a massive water system. It stretches across the lower half of the state, collecting runoff from 29 counties and providing water to millions of people. But in the city of Wilmington, where the river meets the Atlantic Ocean, the water has residents worried.
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Xylem Water Prize 2017
12/19/2017
The International Junior Science Olympiad 2017 (IJSO) was held in the Netherlands in December 2017. Xylem Inc. was official sponsor of the event, in which students aged 15 from 50 countries compete with one another on the topic Water & Sustainability.
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Drought Forum Webinar: The Growing Demand For Re-Used And Brackish Water
5/7/2015
The Western Governors' Drought Forum webinar “Once Marginal, Now Crucial: The Growing Demand for Re-used, Produced, and Brackish Water” explores the technological and regulatory obstacles to utilizing re-used, produced, and brackish water.
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NASA: Megadroughts Projected For American West
2/13/2015
NASA scientists used tree rings to understand past droughts and climate models incorporating soil moisture data to estimate future drought risk in the 21st century.
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The Big Empty: Rural America's Drinking Water Crisis
6/20/2017
O’Brien, Texas is just one of thousands of small communities in the United States that struggle to find the resources to ensure that the water coming out of the tap is safe to drink. The recent budget proposal by the Trump administration will only make matters worse. Watch this documentary short produced by Tom Rosenberg and Earth Institute fellow Madison Condon details one shrinking town’s drinking water crisis.
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KC Water's Water Main Replacement Program Reduces Main Breaks 60%
5/17/2018
KC Water is strategically and systematically replacing old water mains. Those in the most need get replaced first.
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From Toilet To Tap Water
12/12/2014
Alex and the crew travel to Saudi Arabia and talk to Noura Shehab, a Ph.D. student at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), about her research to use microbes to power sea water desalination.