Drinking Water Videos

  1. Tiny Motors That Can Clean Up Polluted Water 5/4/2016

    Scientists are developing new motors that are tiny and soft. They run on things like light, magnetic effects or chemical solutions. And they can serve specific functions — including cleaning up pollution.

  2. Engineers Design New Lead Detector For Water 12/22/2016

    New sensor offers continuous monitoring, immediate detection of lead.

  3. WRF Direct Potable Reuse Research Projects 8/27/2015

    Water Research Foundation at the Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center talking with Jim Fiedler and Andrew Salveson about upcoming WRF Direct Potable Reuse research projects.

  4. AMERICAN Experts Discuss Aging Water Infrastructure 12/15/2014

    Out of sight, the country’s underground water infrastructure is aging and failing. In this interview, AMERICAN’s Derek Scott and Maury Gaston discuss the problem, challenges facing cities, and the latest technologies for providing and protecting one of our most precious resources — water.

  5. The House On Wade Avenue 1/27/2014

    In Raleigh, N.C., there's a house... or what looks like a house. What's hidden inside is more important than most people realize.

  6. Replenishing Through Reuse 11/19/2019

    The Orange County Water District (OCWD) has long been an innovative leader in indirect potable reuse. An integral component of its Groundwater Replenishment System (GWRS) – a 100 million gallon per day advanced water purification facility – is reverse osmosis membrane technology.

  7. Freshwater Salinization Syndrome: An Introduction 1/17/2018

    Across North America, streams and rivers are becoming saltier, thanks to road deicers, fertilizers and other salty compounds that humans indirectly release into waterways. At the same time, freshwater supplies are becoming more alkaline.

  8. Panel-Mounted Solutions For Streamlined Water Quality Monitoring 11/14/2024

    In this episode of The Water Online Show: On Location, our guest is Mike Blackburn from Hach. Mike dives into the benefits of panel-mounted solutions for water quality monitoring.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.