University of Manchester - Archive (water)
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2025
27
January
2025
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16:02
Europe/London
A new study published in Nature Water has revealed that England鈥檚 major water and sewage companies are misleading the public and Government by using strategies which mirror those of the tobacco and fossil fuel industries.
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2024
26
April
2024
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16:00
Europe/London
Scientists have shed light on a new, transformative approach that could help resolve a dispute over the Nile river鈥檚 water resources.
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2022
11
August
2022
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15:00
Europe/London
A powerful new crop management tool has been launched today, to enable farmers, businesses, and governments to make more informed decisions about water management, irrigation investments, and climate risks.
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08
February
2022
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16:00
Europe/London
Scientists at The University of Manchester and The University of Glasgow have today provided more insight into the possibility of establishing a pathway to generate oxygen for humans to potentially call the Moon or Mars 鈥榟ome鈥� for extended periods …
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25
January
2022
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14:00
Europe/London
Water quality in rivers is affected by underpinning 鈥榥atural鈥� hydrogeological and biogeochemical processes, as well as interactions between people and their environment that are accelerating stress on water resources at unprecedented rates.
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2021
21
May
2021
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11:00
Europe/London
Researchers at The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) have published a study in Nature Communications showing how water friction and velocity can be selectively controlled through nano-scale channels using …
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22
January
2021
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09:45
Europe/London
Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa don’t measure up to their plans according to new research into the projects by scientists. Many of the schemes were found to be consistently delivering a much smaller area of irrigation or are …
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2020
13
October
2020
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14:35
Europe/London
Arsenic in drinking water obtained from wells is causing massive adverse health outcomes, including premature deaths, from cancers and cardiovascular disease, in many parts of the world and particularly in the Indian subcontinent.
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24
March
2020
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10:27
Europe/London
A collaborative research project between the Universities of Manchester, Utrecht, and Durham, and the National Oceanography Centre has revealed for the first time how submarine sediment avalanches can transport microplastics from land into the deep …
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2018
22
June
2018
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08:44
Europe/London
Published in Science, a team of researchers at The University of Manchester have found that on a microscopic scale water behaves very differently when only a few molecules thick and its thin layers lose any polarizability, becoming electrically …
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20
June
2018
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14:26
Europe/London
Today (20 June 2018), HRH Prince Khaled Bin Sultan announced the winners for the 8th Award of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) at the opening session of UNISPACE+50 conference in Vienna, Austria.
Professor …
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2011
05
November
2011
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00:00
Europe/London
A Manchester invention that provides a low-cost and continuous way of cleaning water has scooped a major industry award.
The Arvia water treatment process, which allows the continuous removal and destruction of toxic and non-biodegradable …
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