The XPRIZE Foundation has announced a five-year effort to develop new approaches for sustainable seawater desalination to address global water scarcity.
U.S. Dept. of Energy officials selected three projects on former Appalachian region coal mine sites and two Southwest projects using active mineral mine land to receive federal funding.
During the 19th century, Chicago’s sewage got dumped into the Chicago River and flowed into Lake Michigan. Because the city’s drinking water was, and still is, drawn from the lake via two mile-long tunnels, officials feared that the sewage would endanger the water supply.
Proposed $900M project could be completed in five years to alleviate water shortage transit impacts, canal officials say, but the Panama government must first approve measures to enable construction start
A growing population, aging infrastructure and more stringent effluent limits spurred the need for a large-scale expansion of the Tomahawk Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility, which first began operations in 1955 in Johnson County, Kan.