Clean water is vital to our health, communities, and economy. Streams and wetlands provide many benefits by trapping floodwaters, recharging groundwater supplies, filtering pollution, and providing habitat for fish and wildlife. People depend on clean water sources for their health: about 117 million US residents — one in three people … [continued]
The US startup OceanWell is scaling up its plans to deploy modular pods under the sea for energy efficient seawater desalination.
BeamWell and Benzina Zero recently announced the integration of the BeamWell™ water desalination and delivery platform with Benzina Zero’s Duo e-moped. “The BeamWell™ system, a transportable water desalination and delivery platform designed to provide clean water and renewable electricity in crisis zones and remote areas, includes four Benzina Zero Duo … [continued]
Engineers at MIT have devised a new solar-powered desalinization system that requires no external power or backup batteries.
Rather than strengthening the desperately outdated Lead and Copper Rule to protect people’s — especially children’s — health, the US Environmental Protection Agency chose to weaken it.
Since women are the primary users of energy, they are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change impacts. Energy policies failing to reach women are thus exacerbating potential climate risks for them. In addition, gender inequalities limit women’s access to finance streams, information or training for using sustainable energy sources. Taking a gender lens approach is thus crucial for minimizing such bias and ensuring equal access to energy for both women and men.
Single-use water bottles are lame and are simply a lazy way to drink water. A new software startup is looking to make it easier to use refillable water bottles with a new smartphone app that displays all of the nearby locations where a water bottle can easily be refilled.
Researchers in Singapore have invented a new air conditioning system that uses no compressor or chemical refrigerants. It is 40% more energy efficient than conventional air conditioners and creates drinking water in the process. Can you say “game changer,” boys and girls?
Atmocean’s wave energy systems generates fresh water that can be used to cultivate desert or barren shoreline regions with a simple and flexible system, and they are conducting an equity crowdfunding campaign to raise money needed to deploy a full-scale pilot system in Ilo, Peru.
Many of you know that there wasn’t much of a “bottled water” industry a few decades ago, but now the industry is so big that there are isles of bottled water choices in many shops. Of course, you’ve probably read all about the plastics problems we’re having across the world, many … [continued]
