A quick, cheap and easy way has been developed to filter from water one of the world’s most common pollutants: arsenic. Arsenic is one of the most common environmental pollutants, finding its way into ...

Field tests in Nepal suggest that people who live in areas with arsenic-tainted aquifers may be able to purify their drinking water by passing it through a low-cost, low-tech filter with a simple ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientist Ashok Gadgil is developing a cheap and effective way to provide safe drinking water to 60 million Bangladeshis who live under the specter ...

The state has a new effort to protect low-income pregnant women and their babies from arsenic exposure using the WIC food assistance program. The program will give out water pitchers with a three-year ...

The news story made a big splash: in January 2016 ETH researchers Professor Raffaele Mezzenga and his senior researcher Sreenath Bolisetty published a study in the journal Nature Nanotechnology about ...

DONA ANA COUNTY, N.M. (KFOX14/CBS4) — The Camino Real Regional Utility Authority, whichoversees water and wastewater services in southern Dona Ana County, completed filter upgrades at its arsenic ...

In a perfect world, cigarette waste simply wouldn't exist. Given that it does, though, scientists have explored a number of methods of repurposing it – these have included using compounds from ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mesofilter Inc., developer and manufacturer of innovative nanotechnology to filter heavy metals in water, today announced that global public health organization NSF ...

A community-led water-testing project made up of households that rely on private well water with high arsenic levels saw on average a 47 percent drop in participants’ urinary arsenic levels after ...

3.4 million people, almost the entire population of Los Angeles, die from water-related diseases every year. One of the chief polluters is arsenic, a metalloid that is vital to the fabrication of ...

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