WATER - MAGNETIDE Project — Purpose Designed Generator For Wave Energy Technologies

The EU’s MAGNETIDE project continues to move forward — 14 months into the projected 24-month development program, the gains are becoming apparent.The project — which is intended to result in the development of a purpose-designed generator for wave energy extraction — has managed to reduce the cost of the system while increasing the efficiency by up to 30%. These improvements were achieved via the modification of the generator’s design, so t ...

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/03/30/magnetide-project-purpose-designed

WATER - How Much Water Does a Power Plant Use?

Toronto, Ontario. – This weekend’s UN World Water Day aims to raise global awareness of water usage and conservation. As part of WorldWaterDay, PURE Energies is focused on educating people about the important role energy plays in water usage. Water is required to produce nearly all forms of energy, and energy is needed at all.. ...

http://solarthermalmagazine.com/2014/03/22/how-much-water-does-a-power

WATER - ‘We are water’ – World Water Day 2014 (Video)

Canadian activist Ta'Kaiya Blaney calls for protection of water for World Water Day.Water unifies us all says young Canadian activist, Ta’Kaiya Blaney. On March 22nd, join the world in the Synchronized Global Water Ceremony. At 3:00pm in your local time and 3:00pm pacific. Unifying with the world to restore our relationship with this sacred medium of life.No Water, No Life. Know Water, Know Life.UNIFY.org is a platform create to support the emerg ...

http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2014/03/we-are-water-world-water-day-2014

WATER - Energy-Efficient Method Of Recovering Valuable Minerals & Materials From Wastewater Developed

An energy-efficient method of recovering economically valuable minerals and materials from wastewater has been developed by researchers at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. In addition to the new approach to recovering resources from industrial wastewater, the researchers also developed new ‘rapid tools’ for the identification of various environmental pollutants. The new work makes the Energy-Efficient Method Of Recovering Valuable Minera ...

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/03/20/energy-efficient-method-recovering

WATER - First animals oxygenated the ocean

The evolution of the first animals may have oxygenated the earth's oceans -- contrary to the traditional view that a rise in oxygen triggered their development. New research contests the long held belief that oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans was a pre-requisite for the evolution of complex life forms. The study builds on the recent work of scientists in Denmark who found that sponges -- the first animals to evolve -- require only small am ...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140309150540.ht

WATER - Value from sewage? A new technology cleans up waste water

Clean water startup Ostara has built a new sewage treatment technology that reduces water pollution and saves moneyIt may be tricky to see dollar signs or green qualities when you think about sewage, but Vancouver-based company Ostara has found a way to connect the three by pulling commercial value from waste water. Its technology harvests phosphorus and ammonia from municipal sewage treatment plants and turns it into fertilizer pellets. The proc ...

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/value-sewage-technolog

WATER - Vitamin water: Measuring essential nutrients in the ocean

The phrase, 'Eat your vitamins,' applies to marine animals just like humans. Many vitamins, including B-12, are elusive in the ocean environment ...

http://phys.org/news/2014-02-vitamin-essential-nutrients-ocean.htm

WATER - Hydraulic seafloor carpet could harness the energy of ocean waves

A single square meter of this wave-to-energy conversion system on a coastal seafloor could provide enough electricity to power two US households ...

http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/harnessing-energy-ocean-wav

WATER - Wastewater treatment using microalgae enables phosphorous and nitrogen removal in darkness

Removal of nitrogen and phosphorous from urban waste waters using a simpler and more inexpensive system based on microalgae was the starting point of the research conducted by several UCA scientists of the TEP-181:Tecnología del Medio Ambiente research group, member of Campus de Excelencia Internacional del Mar (CEI.Mar). Led by Professor José Antonio Perales Vargas-Machuca, a team of experts have developed a new wastewater system for nutrient re ...

http://phys.org/news/2014-02-wastewater-treatment-microalgae-enables-p

WATER - Arctic biodiversity under serious threat from climate change

Climate change caused by human activities is by far the worst threat to biodiversity in the Arctic. Some of these changes are already visible. Unique and irreplaceable Arctic wildlife and landscapes are crucially at risk due to global warming caused by human activities according to a new report prepared by 253 scientists from 15 countries ...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214075511.ht

WATER - Floating Wind Turbines Coming to Oregon Coast

A demonstration project received approval from the federal government, though Europe is still likely to see the technology first ...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/floating-wind-turbines-comin

WATER - Thermal power plants use 4x more water than all US residents, solar PV doesn't need a drop

As you can see in the satellite photos above, California is experiencing a massive drought over most of the state. The most visible aspect from space is the snow cover (or lack thereof) over the Sierra Nevada mountain rang ...

http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/thermal-power-plants-use-4x

WATER - How Radioactive Is Our Ocean?

Help U.S. marine scientists monitor the spread of radiation across the Pacific Ocean from Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant ...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science/how-radioactive-is-o

WATER - Ocean acidification is kryptonite to all coral reefs... except one in the Western Pacific

Rising carbon emission from the burning of fossil fuels is increasing the acidity of Earth's oceans. That's very bad for coral reefs, because in acidic environments they can't form calcium carbonate, the building block of corals ...

http://www.treehugger.com/ocean-conservation/ocean-acidification-krypt

WATER - Israeli Snowmakers Save Alpine Skiing

Israel Desalination Enterprises keeps the Alps skiable—and may keep the world in fresh wate ...

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-23/how-israeli-snowmakers

WATER - Viruses within the ocean floor comprise the greatest fraction of the deep biosphere

In the current issue of the Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME Journal, 20.1.2014) scientists from the University of Oldenburg and from the GFZ German Centre for Geosciences show that in deep, old and nutrient-poor marine sediments there are up to 225 times more viruses than microbes. In such extreme habitats viruses make up the largest fraction of living biomass and take over the role as predators in this bizarre ec ...

http://phys.org/news/2014-01-viruses-ocean-floor-comprise-greatest.htm

WATER - Island channel could power about half of Scotland, studies show

Renewable tidal energy sufficient to power about half of Scotland could be harnessed from a single stretch of water off the north coast of the Scotland, engineer ...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140120090645.ht

WATER - Coral reefs in Palau surprisingly resistant to naturally acidified waters

Ocean researchers working on the coral reefs of Palau in 2011 and 2012 made two unexpected discoveries that could provide insight into corals' resistance and resilience to ocean acidification, and aid in the creation of a plan to protect them ...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140115113510.ht

WATER - Washington, D.C. Water Utility Adapts to Global Warming

Upstream at the U.S. Capitol, lawmakers may dither over the right national strategies to cope with climate change and some Republicans would prefer not to believe in it at all. But downstream, the largest facility of its kind in the world is busy preparing to protect the lawmakers and the capital from a foul-smelling catastrophe that could arise if the threat of sea-level rise is ignored. [More] ...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=washington-dc-water-u

WATER - Ocean dead zones more deadly for marine life than previously predicted

Scientists have found that low pH levels within ocean dead zones represent an additional, previously unappreciated, threat to ocean animals ...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140109003752.ht