The Waterly

Can fake whale poo experiment net Australian scientists a share of Elon Musk’s US$100m climate prize?

Scientists and engineers have pumped 300 litres of simulated whale poo into the ocean off Sydney as part of efforts to snag a share of Elon Musk’s US$100m prize for capturing and storing carbon.

Plastic Popcorn: How Microplastics Can Be Fished From Wastewater

A non-profit greentech start-up from Karlsruhe called Water 3.0 has developed hybrid silica gels that use a physicochemical process to bind microplastic particles to their surface. They form fluffy agglomerates that look like popcorn. The hybrid silica gel acts like an adhesive on the plastic particles.

Parched West Receives $200 Million to Refill Largest Reservoir in US

The measure would keep the faucets running in 1.5 million households for a year, and increase the reservoir’s water level by 16 feet. The project exists as a collaboration between the Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of the Interior, and several water conservation and state entities.

Evoqua expands in medical water via Mar Cor deal 

Evoqua is set to inherit a water dialysis business formerly owned by GE Water after striking a $196.3 million deal to acquire Cantel Medical Group’s Mar Cor Purification business from healthcare equipment company Steris.

H2O Innovation continues disciplined O&M roll-up 

More than half of H2O Innovation’s pro forma group revenues will be derived from its O&M division following the acquisitions of JCO, Inc. and Environmental Consultants, LLC earlier this month.

No mountain high enough: study finds plastic in ‘clean’ air 

From Mount Everest to the Mariana Trench, microplastics are everywhere – even high in the Earth’s troposphere where wind speeds allow them to travel vast distances, a new study has found.

Scientists watch giant ‘doomsday’ glacier in Antarctica with concern

The 1,255-sq-mile (3,250-sq-km) Larsen B ice shelf was known to be melting fast but no one had predicted that it would take just one month for the 200-metre-thick behemoth to completely disintegrate.

Rising From the Antarctic, a Climate Alarm

“From no perspective is there any place more important than the Southern Ocean,” said Joellen L. Russell, an oceanographer at the University of Arizona. “There’s nothing like it on Planet Earth.”

EPA Announces Nationwide Monitoring Effort To Better Understand Extent Of PFAS In Drinking Water

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5) to establish nationwide monitoring for 29 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and lithium in drinking water.

How a lab works to seek and destroy the harmful chemicals known as PFAS 

Inside a nondescript building nestled in a business park in New Castle, Delaware, a small group of scientists were testing water samples recently, to see whether they had been contaminated by the very large class of toxic chemicals known as PFAS.

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