The rains may have finally come to Southern California in recent weeks, but officials know they can no longer rely on the vagaries of nature to ensure a proper water supply and are looking to Israel for help.
In an agreement signed earlier in September, LA County will work with Israel to study Israeli water technology, seeking the most appropriate systems to be used in the county to conserve water resources.
Willie Hartman comenzó a fabricar hace dos décadas equipos que ayudan a los agricultores a conservar el agua, pero las ventas no despegaron hasta hace cuatro años. En parte, el mérito del repunte se lo lleva la peor sequía de California en al menos medio siglo.
Los productores de la economía agrícola de California, que mueve US$45.000 millones al año, tienen cada vez más sed de formas de ahorrar agua, lo que lleva a un fuerte aumento de la demanda de procesos y herramientas como la On Target Sprayer de Hartman.
MegaCell Engineering, société spécialisée dans les Smart Energy System faisant partie de Mega Group, a breveté en octobre 2014 le système SSD (Smart Solar Desalination), une innovation mondiale pour la purification de l'eau de mer avec un système solaire basé sur l'osmose inverse.
PowWow, a startup that specializes in technology like a tool detect leaks and help farmers keep track of their water usage, has raised $3 million.
PowWow uses a combination of data from aerial imagery, water energy records and other kinds of data, and then sends farmers text messages with updates if there is a problem. Those problems can be something along the lines of finding a leak.
En cada momento de nuestra vida diaria, damos por hecho el acceso al el agua potable, a la electricidad y la conectividad a Internet. Sin embargo tan sólo una minoría de las personas en el mundo, puede disfrutar de sus beneficios.
Liquidity Nanotech is trying to change the world. But for once, the cliché could actually be applicable. The company is launching today onstage at Disrupt NY 2015 with the Naked Filter, a consumer water bottle with its proprietary water-filtration membrane built-in.
Liquidity doesn’t look like an average startup. Built on over 15 years of patented university research, the team is a who’s who from the biggest and most respected names in the water business.
La maison que vous achetez est alimentée par un puits artésien et vous voulez savoir si l'eau contient des polluants ? A l'heure actuelle, vous devez vous résoudre à débourser quelques centaines de dollars pour faire analyser l'eau par un laboratoire accrédité, qui prendra une semaine pour vous livrer les résultats. Mais peut-être plus pour longtemps. Des chercheurs de l'UQAM ont en effet mis au point un véritable laboratoire sur puces qui pourrait changer la donne. "Il s'agit d'un test de pollution basé sur la fluorescence des algues, explique le diplômé du doctorat en chimie Florent Lefèvre, qui a travaillé sur ce projet dans le cadre de sa thèse.
Disrupt Battlefield finalist Valor Water is graduating out of Y Combinator just in time to help solve the world’s water crisis. Valor provides a suite of business-intelligence tools for water utilities.
In a drought, consumers are encouraged to conserve water and they often do. In California this past December, conservation was up from 10 percent in November to 22 percent in December, in year-over-year water-use comparisons done by the State of California. Since July 2014, consumers saved 134 billion gallons of water or enough to supply 1.8 million residents with water for a year.
Californians have been using their garden hoses sparingly to help conserve water during one of the state’s driest years in history. But what if you’re a farmer with acres of crops that need irrigation to grow, and you learn that the state may curtail water supplies for agriculture?
Tom Shapland has been thinking about the challenges of farming since he was an undergraduate at U.C. Davis majoring in viticulture and enology—fancy words for growing grapes and making wine out of them. He says he quickly realized what really mattered to all farmers, even in years with normal weather.
“The bottom line is water,” Shapland says. “It determines the crop yield and the price per pound of produce.”
Une équipe de scientifiques du Centre Helmholtz pour la recherche environnementale (UFZ) de Leipzig (Saxe) travaille depuis plusieurs années au développement d'un procédé de remédiation des nappes phréatiques de contaminants pétrochimiques tels que le MTBE [1] et la famille des BTEX [2].
