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Water Sector Startups Innovate Efficient Use And Supply
“Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.” Often attributed to Mark Twain, whoever said that seemed to have quite a bit of foresight, something the mainstream cleantech community is only...
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EPA Launches National Study of Hydraulic Fracturing
Responding to reports of environmental contamination in gas drilling areas across the country, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will conduct a nationwide scientific study to determine if the...
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Broad Scope of EPA’s Fracturing Study Raises Ire of Gas Industry
A federal study of hydraulic fracturing set to begin this spring is expected to provide the most expansive look yet at how the natural gas drilling process can affect drinking water supplies, according...
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Shut Down Wells, EPA Orders Gas Drilling Company
In its 2009 annual report, Cabot Oil and Gas named a field in Texas and another in Dimock, Pa., as its two largest fields of production. But yesterday the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental...
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Water is Not the New Oil
“Water, Water everyone, nor any drop to drink” -Rime of the ancient mariner by Coleridge We’ve all heard or read that “water is the new oil”, often as a pundit’s shorthand for some market prediction....
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Clean Drinking Water for the Taj Mahal
Israel’s Aqwise is proving to be a success story of international proportions in the arena of biological wastewater treatment. The Company began as a small start-up offering innovative biological...
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Groundwater Pumping Emerges As a Factor in Sea Level Rise, Study Says
The vast amounts of water pumped out of the ground for irrigation, drinking water, and industrial uses will increasingly contribute to global sea level rise in the coming decades, according to a new...
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Yoko Ono Joins Anti-Fracking Campaign
Legendary artist, singer, performer and activist Yoko Ono has lent her support to the anti-fracking campaign. On Monday Yoko placed a full page in the New York Times calling on Governor Cuomo to “Image...
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Blue I Raises $3m, Prepares to Expand
Israeli water analysis and control company Blue I Technologies is in the advanced stages of a number of tenders around the world, including in India, China, South and North America, the company...
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Blue I Water Technologies Expanding Global Operations in China
China’s Guangdong Province water company is currently in the process of installing 75 water analyzing and control units supplied by global water quality control systems provider Blue I Water...
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Nanofilter System Can Deliver Clean Water to Rural Families for $2.50
Indian scientists have developed a filter system they say can provide clean water to rural families for less than $2.50 per year and help reduce incidences of diarrhea that cause tens of thousands of...
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Solar-Powered System Used to Produce Clean Water in Rural Villages
Clean drinking water is often an overlooked privilege in first world countries. However, in areas such as the rural villages of the Yucatan Peninsula, potable water is at least a day’s drive away and...
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Drilling Chemicals Found In Drinking Water Near Natural Gas Sites
For the first time, scientists have discovered chemicals used in a controversial natural gas drilling technique in water wells near the gas sites. Scientists for the Environmental Protection Agency...
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Water Filtration: Safe Drinking Water from Thin Air?
Safe drinking water from thin air? That’s the claim of San Luis Obispo, California, based Atmospheric Water Systems (AWS), which offers a product line of air-filtering water systems under the brand...
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U.S. Congress Tells EPA to Study Hydraulic Fracturing and Drinking Water
Five years ago the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency assured the nation that the technology credited with opening vast new natural gas supplies was safe. Now Congress has ordered the agency to take...
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Pa. Residents Sue Gas Driller for Contamination, Health Concerns
Pennsylvania residents whose streams and fields have been damaged by toxic spills and whose drinking water has allegedly been contaminated by drilling for natural gas are suing the Houston-based energy...
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Green Chemistry: Underused Drilling Practices Could Avoid Pollution
As environmental concerns threaten to derail natural gas drilling projects across the country, the energy industry has developed innovative ways to make it easier to exploit the nation’s reserves...
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Contaminated Tap Water Calls for Urgent Improvement of Water Systems
The New York Times’ latest story in its series on water contamination might make you think twice before filling up your glass from the tap. Although the law probably deems your water safe, it could...
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Colorado Towns Take Extra Measures to Protect Water From Gas Drilling
In 2005 the U.S. Bureau of Land Management offered up thousands of acres of federal land in Colorado to drilling. Because the land was in the heart of an area that supplies drinking water to 55,000...
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Global Water Crisis: You’d Think Water Would Be a Basic Right
In the slums of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, about 1 million poor people pay up to 30 times more for water of dubious quality brought to them in old tanker trucks than middle-class citizens pay for clean...
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