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VA Tech Wabag has been awarded a major EPC order worth half a Billion Saudi Riyals from Power and Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The scope of this Engineering, Design and Build contract is towards the expansion of Sewage Water Treatment Plant in Jubail. ... Read More »

The findings could inform future missions to Mars by providing better targets to rovers searching for signs of past or present habitable environments, researchers said. A team led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the US has calculated that if liquid ... Read More »

Dream of every child is to study and become someone who is educated, dignified, carries respect in society and is self-sufficient. It is fundamentally right also. But even before the journey begins, like a dream, it already ends like a dream for millions of children living in rural villages. As ... Read More »

The Egyptians were the first people to record methods for recycling and treating water. These records date back more than 1,500 years to 400 A.D. They indicate that the most common ways of cleaning water were by boiling it over a fire, heating it in the sun, or by dipping ... Read More »

Udaipur : A seven year old girl died after falling in the water tank inside her house in Bagwas area in Pratapgarh city on Sunday. Her family members were filling the tank during the water supply time when the incident happened. Manvi daughter of Netram Meghwal was a student of class ... Read More »

How many of us who drink water from sealed bottles (pet bottle) carry with them if the water is still remaining ? And how many of us throw that water in the nearby plant as we feel this water will become non-drinkable for the next day? Water is not perishable ... Read More »

Hindustan Zinc’s Captive Power Plant (CPP) at Zawar Mines and Dariba Smelting Complex won ‘National Award for Excellence in Water Management’ 2018. The award was presented at the 4th Water Innovation Summit 2018 by CII – Triveni Water Institute, held on 4th and 5th October 2018 at a glittering ceremony ... Read More »

Cochin Shipyard is currently trading at Rs. 379.90, up by 10.90 points or 2.95% from its previous closing of Rs. 369.00 on the BSE. The scrip opened at Rs. 366.60 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 391.00 and Rs. 364.00 respectively. So far 18829 shares were traded ... Read More »

The capturing and storing of rainwater goes back thousands of years to when we first started to farm the land and needed to find new ways of irrigating crops. In hotter climates, catching that intermittent rainfall often meant the difference between life and death for communities. Even civilisations in the ... Read More »

Cochin Shipyard has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Russian firm United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) to boost water transportation in India. As per the MoU, USC will engage in development of the state-of-the-art vessels for inland and coastal waterways in the country. The company and USC aim to ... Read More »

The Gulf of St. Lawrence has warmed and lost oxygen faster than almost anywhere else in the global oceans. The broad, biologically rich waterway in Eastern Canada drains North America’s Great Lakes and is popular with fishing boats, whales and tourists. A new study led by the University of Washington ... Read More »

Solar-powered water splitting is a promising means of generating clean and storable energy. A novel catalyst based on semiconductor nanoparticles has now been shown to facilitate all the reactions needed for ‘artificial photosynthesis’. In the light of global climate change, there is an urgent need to develop efficient ways of ... Read More »

University of California, Berkeley, engineers have created a new way to remove contaminants from storm water, potentially addressing the needs of water-stressed communities that are searching for ways to tap the abundant and yet underused source of fresh drinking water. Using a mineral-coated sand that reacts with and destroys organic ... Read More »

For centuries, scientists have worked to understand the makeup of Jupiter. It’s no wonder: this mysterious planet is the biggest one in our solar system by far, and chemically, the closest relative to the Sun. Understanding Jupiter is a key to learning more about how our solar system formed, and ... Read More »

Kanazawa – Diamonds are adored for their dazzling beauty, often displayed in exquisite jewelry. But, this solid form of carbon is also renowned for its outstanding physical and electronic properties. In Japan, a collaboration between researchers at Kanazawa University’s Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology and AIST in Tsukuba, ... Read More »

First, according to Rice University engineers, get a nanotube hole. Then insert water. If the nanotube is just the right width, the water molecules will align into a square rod. Rice materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsavari and his team used molecular models to demonstrate their theory that weak van der Waals ... Read More »

A team of scientists has uncovered new molecular properties of water — a discovery of a phenomenon that had previously gone unnoticed. Liquid water is known to be an excellent transporter of its own autoionization products; that is, the charged species obtained when a water molecule (H2O) is split into ... Read More »

The company installs two RO plants, four water ATMs and one mobile van ATM to provide safe drinking water in two panchayats in Debari, near Udaipur   Safe drinking water has always been one of the major concerns especially in rural India. To address to this critical issue, Hindustan Zinc ... Read More »

The authority also considered requesting the Central Water Commission to submit proposal for setting up communication network to assess hydrological conditions. Representatives of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Puducherry attended the meeting. The meeting chaired by CWMA Chairman S Masood Husain, was held in conducive environment. Agenda of discussion was supporting ... Read More »

ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometre Experiment on Space Station, or ECOSTRESS  will hitch a ride to the space station on a SpaceX cargo resupply mission scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on June 29, NASA said on Tuesday. ECOSTRESS is one of two instruments selected in July for ... Read More »