The widespread and unjust drinking water and clean water crisis in the United States. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2021 Many households in the United States face issues of incomplete plumbing and poor water quality. Prior scholarship on this issue has focused on one dimension of water hardship at a time, leaving the full picture incomplete.
Mueller JT, Gasteyer S.
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Does Public Awareness Matter to Achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water for Everyone? [PDF]
J Environ Public Health, 2022 United Nations set a Sustainable Development Goal to provide clean water for everyone (SDG 6). The successful implementation of SDG 6 is still miles to go.
Mustafa S, Jamil K, Zhang L, Girmay MB.
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Analysis of microplastics in drinking water and other clean water samples with micro-Raman and micro-infrared spectroscopy: minimum requirements and best practice guidelines. [PDF]
Anal Bioanal Chem, 2021 Microplastics are a widespread contaminant found not only in various natural habitats but also in drinking waters. With spectroscopic methods, the polymer type, number, size, and size distribution as well as the shape of microplastic particles in waters ...
Schymanski D +18 more
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Machine learning predicts which rivers, streams, and wetlands the Clean Water Act regulates. [PDF]
ScienceWe assess which waters the Clean Water Act protects and how Supreme Court and White House rules change this regulation. We train a deep learning model using aerial imagery and geophysical data to predict 150,000 jurisdictional determinations from the ...
Greenhill S +8 more
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Nanoenabled Photothermal Materials for Clean Water Production. [PDF]
Glob Chall, 2021 Solar‐powered water evaporation is a primitive technology but interest has revived in the last five years due to the use of nanoenabled photothermal absorbers.
Irshad MS, Arshad N, Wang X.
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The Rise of 2D Photothermal Materials beyond Graphene for Clean Water Production. [PDF]
Adv Sci (Weinh), 2020 Water shortage is one of the most concerning global challenges in the 21st century. Solar‐inspired vaporization employing photothermal nanomaterials is considered to be a feasible and green technology for addressing the water challenge by virtue of ...
Xie Z +11 more
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Plant leaves inspired sunlight-driven purifier for high-efficiency clean water production. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2019 Natural vascular plants leaves rely on differences in osmotic pressure, transpiration and guttation to produce tons of clean water, powered by sunlight.
Geng H +8 more
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Experimental study on characteristics of grounawater fracture in coalmine overlying rock
Meitan kexue jishu, 2023 The seepage characteristics of groundwater in the overlying fissures are the key factors to be considered in the later maintenance of coal mining and goaf, especially in the underground reservoir construction area of coal mines.
Haixiang LI +4 more
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Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 Water scarcity threatens people in various regions, and has predominantly been studied from a water quantity perspective only. Here we show that global water scarcity is driven by both water quantity and water quality issues, and quantify expansions in ...
M. V. van Vliet +6 more
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