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Difficult market environment impacts NORMA Group in first quarter of 2025
Sales in the first quarter of 2025 with a year-on-year decrease of 7.9 percent to EUR 284.2 million. Adjusted operating profit (EBIT) at EUR 10.3 million; adjusted EBIT margin at 3.6 percent.
Water at the heart of energy security: Turnbull warns Europe after Iberian blackouts
The blackouts that swept across Spain and Portugal last week have reignited a crucial conversation about the role of water in energy resilience.
Private equity’s expanding role in the water sector: key players, investments and strategic exits
As institutional capital continues to flow into water-related industries, private equity firms (PE) are playing a pivotal role in consolidating assets, scaling sustainable solutions, and modernizing critical infrastructure.
New GLAAS White Paper calls for revamped monitoring to accelerate SDG 6 implementation
The Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS), a UN-Water initiative led by WHO and UNICEF, has released a new white paper titled Improving Monitoring of the Means of Implementation for Water and Sanitation.
Study looks at effect of selenium to counteract mercury contamination in waterways
What if counteracting mercury contamination in waterways could be as simple as adding selenium?
Research may have settled long-standing hypothesis on temperature dependence of extreme rainfall
Flash floods resulting from extreme rainfall pose a major risk to people and infrastructure, especially in urban areas.
New study highlights global aridification, threat to agriculture
A long-term shift toward drier conditions is reshaping landscapes and livelihoods across the globe.
Nanofiltration and RO offer hope for removing disinfection byproducts from drinking water
Disinfection byproducts (DBPs) are harmful chemicals that form when disinfectants react with natural organic matter and other precursors during water treatment and distribution.
Researchers test how stream characteristics impact microplastic retention
Microplastics, tiny plastic particles found in everyday products from face wash to toothpaste, are an emerging threat to health and ecology, prompting a research team to identify what keeps them trapped in stream ecosystems.
Study finds common insecticide thiacloprid damages freshwater ecosystems
The pesticide thiacloprid turns out to be more harmful than previously thought.
Integrated remote control and DSS platforms are crucial to digitally transforming irrigation
Remote monitoring and control technologies combined with analytical and decision-making capabilities to optimize water and energy resource management, as well as process optimization are crucial and necessary for upgrading irrigation.
Research finds wastewater treatment plants are still not effectively removing microplastics
Despite advances in wastewater treatment, tiny plastic particles called microplastics are still slipping through, posing potential health and environmental hazards, according to new research from The University of Texas at Arlington.
Earth Day 2025: The intersection of renewable energy and the water sector
On April 22, 2025, Earth Day marks its 55th anniversary, with a global call to action under the theme Our Power, Our Planet.
Scientists find evidence that overturns theories of the origin of water on Earth
University of Oxford researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface.
Estuaries around the world expected to become saltier in the coming decades
In estuaries—the transitional zones between rivers and the sea—fresh and salt water are constantly battling for dominance.
Study looks at climate-sensitive routes that deliver substances from Siberian rivers to the Arctic
A new study has shed unprecedented light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to travel across the Arctic Ocean.
Researchers create molecular nanocages that remove 80-90% of PFAS from water
Researchers funded by the U.S.
Research develops plasma-based process to synthesize photothermal materials for water purification
The conversion of solar energy into thermal energy is an ever-evolving technology that leads to numerous applications.
World’s largest study reveals the long-term health impacts of flooding
The world’s largest and most comprehensive study of the long-term health impacts of flooding – via analysis of over 300 million hospitalisations records in eight countries prone to flooding events, including Australia – has found an increased risk of 26 per cent of all diseases serious enough to require hospitalisation.
Cracking the code on gypsum and silica scaling in water desalination
Mineral scaling, a significant issue in membrane desalination, reduces water recovery rates and diminishes system performance.