Water Innovation Advisors

The guidance may spur water utilities to tackle PFAS, but health advocates are still waiting for mandatory standards

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/06/15/epa-pfas-forever-chemicals/

As we face increased flooding, China’s sponge cities are taking a new course. But can they steer the country away from concrete megadams?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/07/slow-water-urban-floods-drought-china-sponge-cities

Australian AI-based stormwater and sewerage pipeline maintenance software VAPAR, today announced it has raised AUD$2,500,000 in seed funding to lead its expansion into global markets

https://h2oglobalnews.com/vapar-completes-aud2-5m-raise-to-lead-global-expansion-with-ai-pipe-inspection-software/

Air pollution, which is primarily the result of burning fossil fuels, takes 2.2 years of the global life expectancy for each person, according to a new report out Tuesday from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/14/air-pollution-takes-2-years-off-your-life-more-than-smoking-or-alcohol.html

Demand on the power grid reached more than 75,000 megawatts on Sunday, surpassing record levels set in August 2019, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/14/texas-power-demand-breaks-record-as-severe-heat-wave-hits-the-state-.html

Yellowstone National Park will be closed at least through Wednesday following historic flooding and rainfall

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/14/yellowstone-shuts-to-visitors-due-to-extremely-hazardous-conditions.html

Peter R Race and Paul Brown on the contamination of the Tees and the North Sea and the dead shellfish littering beaches in the area

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/14/failure-to-tackle-teessides-toxic-legacy-is-devastating-for-sea-life-and-livelihoods

Crews battled the gusty winds as the Pipeline fire exploded to more than 24,000 acres by Tuesday morning

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/14/arizona-wildfires-pipeline-fire-evacuations-latest

Due to the climate crisis, within 30 years these coastal properties will be potentially unsalvageable, researchers say

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/15/sea-level-rise-in-england-will-force-200000-to-abandon-homes-data-shows

It scooped the Golden Lion at Venice and now the beach-set spectacular is bringing its burned-out workers and decadent globetrotters to the UK. But why does no one clap?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/15/sun-and-sea-climate-crisis-opera-interview

Years before the climate crisis was part of national discourse, this memo to the president predicted catastrophe

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/14/1977-us-presidential-memo-predicted-climate-change

Scientists analysed footage from small video cameras with infrared night-vision attached to the animals

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/13/seals-use-whiskers-to-track-prey-in-deep-ocean-study-shows

Texas Water officials announces $73 million for a new wastewater treatment plant, a flood mitigation project, and a stormwater drainage improvements project

https://www.waterworld.com/drinking-water/infrastructure-funding/press-release/14277954/texas-water-approves-73m-for-wastewater-stormwater-projects

This year’s bill could be one of the largest and most ambitious to date, providing $25.3 billion to USACE water resource management projects

https://www.waterworld.com/drinking-water/infrastructure-funding/article/14277933/house-passes-2022-water-resources-development-act

Our research, published today (June 6) in Nature Climate Change, looks at the profound consequences to global climate if this Atlantic conveyor collapses entirely

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-collapse-of-an-atlantic-ocean-current-would-ripple-across-the-world-says-study

The corals we find in the world's reefs have their own microbiomes, and scientists are figuring out how to feed them probiotic 'supplements' – to try and save them for future generations

https://www.sciencealert.com/feeding-corals-with-this-supplement-could-help-us-to-regrow-the-great-barrier-reef

According to new data disclosed by the nation’s foremost security agency, military bases throughout the U.S. are linked to dangerous drinking water contamination

https://www.wateronline.com/doc/pentagon-finds-elevated-pfas-levels-in-drinking-water-near-its-bases-0001

ASDWA’s comments support the development of these draft recommendations and broadly address the use of the CWA ambient water quality criteria (AWQC), as part of a holistic and coordinated lifecycle approach to assess, address, and remove PFAS or prevent PFAS from entering the environment (and drinking water sources)

https://www.wateronline.com/doc/asdwa-comments-on-epa-draft-recommended-pfas-aquatic-life-water-quality-criteria-0001

Southern right whale populations were severely depleted by whaling but may be bouncing back in Geographe Bay

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/14/researchers-use-whale-photo-archive-to-help-protect-important-wa-calving-site

As of today, trawling is banned in the British part of the famous sunken landmass – a major win for biodiversity

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/13/britain-rewilding-north-sea-dogger-bank-biodiversity

Conservation officials believe mass die-offs are becoming more frequent as climate crisis disrupts food chains

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/14/search-for-clues-as-bodies-of-hundreds-of-little-blue-penguins-wash-ashore-in-new-zealand

A female-led community group in the dry south of the country are diversifying crops to adapt to the climate crisis. Now they are reaping the bounty

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jun/14/sweet-as-a-nut-hondurans-fight-drought-and-poverty-with-cashews

The entire park, spanning parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, will remain closed to visitors as officials assess damage to roads and bridges

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/13/yellowstone-national-park-closure-flooding-mudslides

Over 80% of Portfolio Actively Involved in Protecting Ocean Resources

Newday Impact Launches Ocean Health ETF, Pledges 5% Donation to Non-Profit Working in Ocean Health | Newday Newday Impact Launches Ocean Health ETF, Pledges 5% Donation to Non-Profit Working in Ocean Health Jun 8, 2022 Over 80% of Portfolio Actively Involved in Protecting Ocean Resources SAN FRANCISCO (June 7, 2022) — Newday Impact, a San Francisco-based asset management and financial technology company...

The drought that has hit Iraq in recent months caused the Mosul reservoir - the most crucial water storage in Iraq- to shrink, which led to the revelation of a 3,400-year-old Mittani Empire-era city submerged for decades. The ancient city is located on the Tigris River in northern Iraq

A major drought reveals a 3,400-year-old city near the Tigris River The drought in Iraq caused the Mosul reservoir to shrink, and this led to the revelation of a 3,400-year-old Mittani Empire-era city that was submerged for decades.

A new study led by the University of Maine and the British Antarctic Survey, including academics from Imperial College London, has found that the Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers in Antarctica are notoriously vulnerable glaciers, and have begun retreating at a rate unseen in the last 5,500 years

Antarctica's 'doomsday' glacier is losing ice at the fastest rate in 5,500 years Is the end near? A new study led by the University of Maine and the British Antarctic Survey, including academics from Imperial College London, has found that the Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers in Antarctica have begun retreating at a rate unseen in the last 5,500 years.

Now, researchers at the University of Stavanger have announced that they have successfully developed a method for using pure hydrogen as fuel in a gas turbine, according to a press release by the institution published on May 31

Researchers develop the first ever gas turbine powered by pure hydrogen Researchers at the University of Stavanger have announced that they have successfully developed a method for using pure hydrogen as fuel in a gas turbine.

In a new study, scientists made use of an ingenious method for tracking this insidious air pollution phenomenon, thanks to something that's entirely natural and also rather ubiquitous – spiderwebs

Even Spiderwebs Are Now Hosting The Most Pervasive Plastic Pollution If microplastics have boundaries, we don't yet know what they are. We seem to find this microscopic trash everywhere we look, from the bottom of the ocean to Earth's highest peak.

The researchers developed test filtration membranes by chemically manufacturing nanoscopic fluorine rings that were stacked and implanted in an otherwise impenetrable lipid layer, similar to the organic molecules found in cell walls

New Device Purifies Saltwater Over a 1000 Times Faster Than Standard Industrial Equipment The future of desalination: Using a Teflon-like membrane to purify water Water scarcity is a growing problem around the globe. In Africa alone, it is estimated that about 230 million people will face water shortages by 2025, with up to 460 million living in water-stressed regions. Water covers 7

Researchers in Canary Islands coin term for new type of marine pollution they say could be leaking toxic chemicals into oceans

Plastitar: mix of tar and microplastics is new form of pollution, say scientists Researchers in Canary Islands coin term for new type of marine pollution they say could be leaking toxic chemicals into oceans