NASA engineers, who are used to making a difference in the lives of astronauts in space, recently had the chance to improve the lives of villagers in Iraq by using NASA technology to help install and test a water purification system in the northern village of Kendala.
For the first time, scientists have pulled up prehistoric geologic records from the frigid vault of the Arctic Ocean. A sediment core, more than 1,400 feet long, reveals that that glaciers formed in the Arctic Ocean about 14 million years earlier than geologists thought.
New results show a promising technique for cleaning up uranium left from 50 years of weapons programs by harnessing the powers of microbes already in the soil.
Many private ground water wells in New Hampshire and Maine may have arsenic at concentrations close to or above federal safety standards for public water supplies.
New Mexico lawmakers are sponsoring legislation, authorizing the Water 2025 grant program, as a way to provide communities and water systems with a means to gain federal assistance for water-related projects.
The National Ground Water Association and the Irrigation Association have signed an agreement that will support efforts to address mutual areas of interest such as scientific, technical and policy issues related to ground water and wells.
The construction of Serendib Flour Mills' mill buildings and silos at the northern end of Colombo Port in Sri Lanka required the installation of 634 32-inch piles.
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