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A membrane inspired by the arsenic–protein interactions in biological systems allows the efficient removal of various arsenic species from contaminated water.
An innovative approach for a portable water bottle utilizes walking-induced electrostatic charges to achieve highly efficient in-situ disinfection, providing a practical solution for ensuring clean water in decentralized environments.
The use of widely available groundwater and remote sensing data allows the identification of depth to groundwater thresholds to maintain water-dependent vegetation health.
An absence of precipitation combined with drying of the ground through evaporation can deplete fresh water crucial for societies and ecosystems. However, new research highlights a more remote driver of drought.
Irrigation has helped facilitate large gains in crop yields but comes at an increasing cost to water resources, complicating climate change adaptation.
Self-supervised learning offers a promising way of downscaling the total water storage anomaly data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, contributing to a better understanding of the impact of natural climate variability and human activities at basin scales.
A solid methodology that enables the facile manufacturing of large-scale metal–organic framework membranes sets the foundation for their potential commercialization and widespread industrial application.
Pioneering empirical assessment shows decreases in aquifer thickness diminish the capacity of groundwater supplies to buffer agricultural production from drought.
Correlation between total suspended solids and plastic nanoparticles suggests a simple approach to measure the amount of nanoplastic in wastewater effluents.
The combination of advancements in evapotranspiration theory, eddy covariance flux measurements of water vapour and satellite remote sensing are putting technology on the verge of producing information on evapotranspiration with unprecedented coverage and resolution. The OpenET project provides this information to farmers and land and water managers for better water practice.
Drinking water infrastructure in urban settings is increasingly affected by population growth and disruptions like extreme weather events. The integration of direct wastewater reuse can help to maintain drinking water service when the system is compromised.
Functional relationships that capture the spatial co-variability of forcing and response variables provide a framework well-suited for global water model evaluation. Evaluating these relationships highlights large differences across models’ representations of the water cycle and the need for model improvement.
A hybrid photocatalyst–photothermal sheet can effectively harness sunlight to produce hydrogen fuel. At the same time, it can purify open-water sources such as seawater and industrial wastewater.
Crop switching optimization within the context of the Indo-Gangetic Plain provides compelling evidence that this approach yields significant benefits in terms of increasing calorie production and profits for farmers whilst minimizing water and energy use.
The adoption of open-hardware technology is changing current river research monitoring practices, reducing the need for scientists to allocate large portions of their budgets to expensive instrumentation.
