Water

While all global climate models show an overall increase in surface temperatures over the coming decades, when it comes down to regional effects on temperature and rainfall there are areas of significant uncertainty.

Workshop explores intertwined future of food production, water, and climate

Choices by consumers and farmers can help limit global warming, but climate change may also curtail those choices in the future.

May 11, 2018

Participants from Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan convened at MIT for a two-day event on the future of the Nile water, hosted by Professor Elfatih Eltahir.

A forum on the future of the Nile River

International workshop proposes future directions for long-standing conflict.

May 4, 2018

Dan Wexler (left) and Priya Patel of EatWell, which won the $15,000 grand prize at this year's Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize competition.

Prize-winning projects promote healthier eating, smarter crop investments

Meal kits for “food deserts” and crowdsourced crop-pricing platform win Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize.

May 4, 2018

At Michigan State University’s W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center researchers are evaluating the performance of a variety of novel bioenergy crop production systems for crop yield and quality, impacts on microbial-plant interactions, biogeochemical and biodiversity responses and water use.

Gauging the effects of water scarcity on an irrigated planet

Study projects likely impacts on food prices, bioenergy production, and deforestation.

April 19, 2018

Lithio Storage, a team from Tufts University and Northwestern University, won the top $100,000 MIT Clean Energy Prize (CEP) for developing an electrolyte that helps batteries withstand much broader temperature ranges, making them safer, more energy efficient, and cheaper to operate. Pictured is team member and inventor Anthony D’Angelo (right) with (from left) CEP co-managing directors Lisa Khan...

MIT Clean Energy Prize rewards student innovation

Robust batteries, solar refrigeration, UV membrane cleaner, and smart factory technologies take home $140,000 in prize money.

April 17, 2018

On Wednesday night, Oasis, a student team from Georgia Tech (center), won the $15,000 grand prize in the MIT Water Innovation Prize competition for its simple, inexpensive test for detecting E. coli in drinking water in India. Second-place prizes for $7,500 went to Velaron (right), developing a smart sensor system for aquaculture shrimp farmers, and Majik Water (left), developing a system that use...

Simple, low-cost E. coli test wins MIT Water Innovation Prize

Nine student teams pitched solutions to global water issues at annual event.

April 6, 2018

Researchers at MIT have developed a new device that is able to extract moisture from very dry air.

In field tests, device harvests water from desert air

MIT-developed system could provide drinking water even in extremely arid locations.

March 22, 2018

Researchers at MIT and the Australian National University have found that seismic waves are essentially blind to a very common substance found throughout the Earth's interior: water.

Scientists find seismic imaging is blind to water

Findings may lead scientists to reinterpret seismic maps of the Earth's interior.

March 14, 2018

Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water and Food John Lienhard was ranked fourth in Top 25 Global Water Leaders list by Water and Wastewater International.

MIT’s growing global leadership in water achieves industry recognition

Water industry publication recognizes J-WAFS director John Lienhard and other influential water sector leaders with strong connections to MIT, in 2018 Top 25 list.

February 21, 2018

In the continuous-flow liquid-liquid separator developed by MIT spinout Zaiput Flow Technologies, liquid mix (blue and pink) is pumped through a feed tube to a porous polymer membrane (dotted line). One liquid (pink) is drawn to the surface of the membrane, while the other (blue) is repelled. An internal mechanical pressure controller maintains a slight pressure differential between the two sides ...

Drug manufacturing that’s out of this world

Continuous-flow chemistry device used for drug production could find use in long-duration space missions.

January 5, 2018

A team in the coastal town of Loíza, Puerto Rico, begins rolling out the first of 16 solar modules from MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Infinitum Humanitarian Systems (IHS). Left to right: Abdoun of the Boys and Girls Club; George Villec, president of GeoInnovation; Denisse Abdo, dietician and translator; Erik Limpaecher of Lincoln Laboratory; Alex Hatoum, IHS managing director; Eric Rasmussen, IHS CE...

Solar water purifier is serving 600 Puerto Ricans daily

An off-grid, battery-less system from MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Infinitum Humanitarian Systems will be run indefinitely by a local Boys and Girls Club.

December 4, 2017

With the right business model, solar panels and pumps could be a promising sustainable irrigation approach for smallholder farmers in India.

MIT researchers release evaluation of solar pumps for irrigation and salt mining in India

Study of solar pump technology use in India assesses technical performance and explores innovative business cases to increase user adoption.

November 13, 2017

Acoustic-gravity waves are sound waves that are typically produced by high-impact sources such as underwater explosions or surface impacts. Usama Kadri and his colleagues carried out experiments to see whether objects hitting a water’s surface produced a characteristic pattern in acoustic-gravity waves.

Ocean sound waves may reveal location of incoming objects

New acoustic analysis could pinpoint impacts by meteorites or possibly plane debris.

October 26, 2017

PhD student Britt Huhmann measures arsenic in rice paddy soil using a field kit in Faridpur, Bangladesh.

There's something in the water

MIT field study shows that arsenic in groundwater reduces rice yields in Bangladesh.

October 20, 2017

Emily Tow PhD '17, displays equipment she developed to measure the effects of different pressure levels on the way microorganisms build up on membranes used for desalinating water.

Toward efficient high-pressure desalination

Surprisingly, pressurization isn’t to blame for fouling of membranes, study finds.

October 15, 2017

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