What is Hydroponics? Hydroponics is a type of hydroculture, where plants are grown without using soil, i.e. only mineral nutrients...
Fluoride: biosensors change the way water contamination is detected
Photo: a family in rural Kenya field test the point-of-use fluoride biosensors. Credit: Janet Barsolai Scientists from Northwestern University have...
Tracking microplastics ‘fingerprints’
Photo: Post storm debris made up mostly of plastics and vegetation is scattered across the high tide line in 2019....
California Water Agencies Hoped A Deluge Would Recharge Their Aquifers. But When It Came, Some Couldn’t Use It
WESTERN WATER IN-DEPTH: January storms jump-started recharge projects in badly overdrafted San Joaquin Valley, but hurdles with state permits and...
Fluorine nanostructures can desalinate water 2,400 times faster than carbon nanotubes
Some of Earth’s 3 million cubic miles (13 million cubic km) of salt water. Imagine a cross-section of a strand...