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Women face greater health and safety risks when water and sanitation systems are compromised, but this has never been explored in relation to tourism.
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Photovoltaic-membrane distillation turns waste heat from solar panels into a power source to drive an efficient water distillation process.
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Researchers find an efficient way to convert nitrogen found in sewage into valuable ammonia.
Climate change to create farmland in the north, but at environmental costs
University of Guelph researchers found Earth’s agricultural landmass could increase by one-third, including new farming in northern Canada and Russia, but not without environmental impacts.
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign develop an energy-efficient device for purifying arsenic-contaminated water.
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Water-management strategies in past societies tell us about urban resilience and vulnerabilities.
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In recent years, extreme weather events caused enormous damage, especially hydro-meteorological hazards such as floods (e.g., 2002 in Central Europe), tsunamis (e.g., 2004 in the Indian Ocean) and hurricanes (e.g., 2005 Hurricane Katrina in the United States). The...
Little Dams, Big Problems
Peter Brewitt and Chelsea Colwyn discuss the legal and policy issues of non-jurisdictional dams
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