Maine’s Clean Water Infrastructure: Transformative Power and Ongoing Needs

Thermal Desalination: and Integration in Clean Power and Water

A large number of resources are dedicated to seawater desalination and will only grow as world-wide water scarcity increases. In arid areas with high temperature and salinity seawater, thermal desalination and power plants (dual-purpose/co-generation plants) are often employed for the production of power and water. In other areas, reverse osmosis is commonly employed. However, both technologies...

Providing clean water, keeping water clean: an integrated approach.

Millions of people, most of whom are children in developing countries, die of basic hygiene-related diseases every year. Interventions in hygiene, sanitation and water supply have been shown to control disease burden. Universal access to improved water sources and basic sanitation remains elusive but is an important long-term goal. Studies have shown that improving the microbiological quality o...

Infrastructure Needs by County

With regional projects factored out (see note at right), eight of the ten counties reporting the largest infrastructure needs in dollar terms were also among the top for total population and for population gains from 1990 to 2001. Those two population factors play a somewhat smaller role in relation to the bottom ten counties. Six of the bottom ten for total report needs were among the bottom t...

Soil Air Water CLEAN

Prioritising clean water and sanitation.

Every minute, 1·1 million litres of human excrement joins the river Ganges. It is a staggering statistic but hardly surprising since some 627 million Indians practice open defecation, roughly half the country’s population, and more than half of the estimated 1 billion people around the world who defecate openly. Most of these people live in ten countries in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Indonesi...