Adsorption is a phenomenon in which molecules or ions from a fluid phase (gas or liquid) are attracted and retained on the surface of a solid phase (adsorbent). Adsorption is different from absorption ...

SAN DIEGO — A groundbreaking was held on Wednesday morning with city and water officials in East County for a new water purification program. The Program is a partnership between four agencies that ...

If you leave a clear bottle of water in the sunlight, the ultraviolet rays will kill any harmful microbes in that water, making it drinkable … but it has to sit in the sun for at least six hours. A ...

Researchers in Norway have succeeded in getting bacteria to power a fuel cell. The "fuel" used is wastewater, and the products of the process are purified water droplets and electricity. This is an ...

Cleaning up the water left over from mining operations can literally take generations -- 25 to 50 years on average -- leaving billions of gallons of the precious resource locked up and useless. Now, a ...

If you live in the District or Northern Virginia, your water might start to smell funny on Monday. That’s because of an annual change to the water purification process — a sort of “spring cleaning” ...

The East County Advanced Water Purification (AWP) Program has been awarded a $2 million grant from the San Diego River Conservancy. The East County Advanced Water Purification Program has been awarded ...