Water Quality

From New Jersey to North Carolina to Ghana, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill undergraduate researcher follows her passion to improve access to clean water.

Stony Brook University scientist are researching two innovative and robust solutions to provide drinking water at the University’s Turkana Basin Institute (TBI) in northern Kenya. They are using a breakthrough nanofibrous membrane technologies powered by gravity or solar heat.

Researchers at Michigan State study have produced the most-detailed list of viruses in ballast water to date, and aims to provide engineers, environmental scientists and policy makers with vital information on how ships spread viruses.

As the number of infected cases due to fecal contamination continues to rise in Texas, technology developed at Texas A&M University could serve as a valuable tool in helping identify the source of the contamination if it is water-based.

University of Minnesota researchers are working together to design and develop smart technology that will more efficiently and cost-effectively lower sulfate concentrations in waters where wild rice like to grow.

MIT PhD student Natasha Wright makes water safe to drink for rural, off-grid Indian villages by designed a village-scale desalination system that runs on solar power.

For the first time, a map of fecal viruses traveling our global waterways has been created using modeling methods to aid in assessing water quality worldwide.

University of Oregon researchers "very bad day" in the lab leads to the development of a wireless sensor that can measure the amount of nitrogen in the soil saving growers millions.

A University of Wisconsin–Madison startup is helping Midwest cities remove pollutants from wastewater through a new process that will benefit local farmers, too.

University of Pennsylvania researchers designed and implemented a sustainable rainwater catchment and filtration system in Kimana, Kenya, where access to clean drinking water is a daily struggle.