Washington University in St.Louis
Washington University in St.Louis is a university that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.
Researchers find way to control contaminants inside nanopores that holds promise for desalination
Natural and engineered systems have a whole world of chemistry inside their tiny pores—known as nanopores—that changes depending on the chemical functional groups inside. A team of chemical engineers and materials scientists in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has found a way to precisely control contaminants in nanopores that would ultimately […]
Removing selenium from water takes iron strength
Daniel Giammar’s lab takes two steps toward removing contaminant from water.
Inactive components in agricultural runoff may be hidden contributors to drinking water hazards
Jean Brownell and Kimberly Parker find that previously overlooked ingredients in herbicides may be precursors to harmful contaminants in drinking water.
Citizen scientists gather eDNA in water samples for global biodiversity census
Kara Andres, a postdoctoral fellow with the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University in St. Louis, collected samples of water from Simpson Lake, in Valley Park, Mo., as part of a coordinated global effort to use environmental DNA—genetic material shed by organisms into the environment—to document the current state of biodiversity. The sampling took place […]
Water quality monitor, locust-inspired electronic nose under development
Teams led by Barani Raman, Dan Giammar awarded $650,000 National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator grants.
Study links changes in global water cycle to higher temperatures
Over last 2,000 years, rising and falling temperatures have altered the way water moves around the planet.
Zapping municipal waste helps recover valuable phosphorus fertilizer
Engineers demonstrate promising pathway to treat solid sludgeEngineers demonstrate promising pathway to treat solid sludge.
Growing algae outside of wastewater
Using wastewater to produce biomass has some drawbacks, namely, ‘what you get is messy’.
Lots of water in the world’s most explosive volcano
There isn’t much in Kamchatka, a remote peninsula in northeastern Russia just across the Bering Sea from Alaska, besides an impressive population of brown bears and the most explosive volcano in the world. Kamchatka’s Shiveluch volcano has had more than 40 violent eruptions over the last 10,000 years. The last gigantic blast occurred in 1964, […]