The City of Duncan is prepared to borrow millions of dollars to upgrade its aging water infrastructure. City Councilors authorized t Public Utilities Authority to begin the loan process with the ...

Organic chemist Bruce Lipshutz had a bit of a rude awakening. It was around 2007, and the head of environmental health and safety (EH&S) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sat Lipshutz ...

As power and industrial plants turn to municipal effluent for cooling water, personnel must tackle new biological and ...

Several locations around the world are inundated with polluted water and the situation in these hot spots may only get worse in the coming years. This water pollution mainly comes from the leakage of ...

Scientists in the United States has developed a new photovoltaic-thermal system design that utilizes parallel water pipes as a cooling system to reduce the operating temperature of photovoltaic panels ...

Contamination of urban lakes, rivers and surface water by human waste is creating pools of 'superbugs' in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC) - but improving access to clean water, sanitation and ...

The bottled water industry is a juggernaut. More than 1 million bottles of water are sold every minute around the world and the industry shows no sign of slowing down, according to a new report.

As the world’s appetite for computers, smartphones and other electronic devices grows ever bigger, the other side of the coin — e-waste — is raising alarms. According to a UN report released last year ...