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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.
Excavation and a geoarchaeological survey provide evidence of an early multi-levelled water management system in the Late-Holocene East Asian Monsoon region.
The traditional solution–diffusion model, long used for studying water transport in reverse osmosis membranes, is re-evaluated with molecular dynamics simulations.
Treatment of brackish groundwater can help to alleviate potential competition for freshwater resources between the power sector and other sectors in water-stressed regions.
Although more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, there is a dire lack of data on trade, cost, and origin of the food that the urban dwellers rely on. Understanding the impact of escalating water-food systems variability on urban quality of life is critical for designing data systems needed to implement appropriate policies and state-supported interventions in urban areas.
Examination of boil water alerts (BWAs) in Jackson, Mississippi points to the breadth and diversity of impact from water contamination. We describe these impacts and the larger context and limitations of BWAs as ways of both informing the public and mitigating risk.
A cost-effective process to achieve defluorination of chlorinated per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) provides valuable insight for sustainable chemical design.