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Summer 2015

Toward the Holistic City

Alan Berger is developing “the holistic agribusiness city.”

Summer 2015

On the Ground

Wherever people face challenges related to water and food, you’re likely to find students and recent alumni building projects and companies.

Summer 2015

Water Challenges

Doug ’75 and Deborah Brown support research on new techniques for purifying water.

Carlos Riva. Photo: Courtesy Poseidon Water

Summer 2015

Developer of Record-Breaking Desalination Plant Hails New Model for Addressing Drought

Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MIT

Solar Power to Purify Water: A 2-Billion-Person Solution?

Photo: Courtesy Isadora Cruxen

“These crises are shared globally”: Lessons from the MIT Water Club

Artist's rendering of the SMAP instrument. Image: courtesy NASA

Two Inches of Soil, Viewed from Space, Could Yield Data for Coping with Climate Change

This map shows the salinity levels of the groundwater underlying India. Although the salinity levels found in most of this water is much lower than that of seawater and has little immediate effects on health, they can have long-term impact. The salinity can make the taste of the water so unpleasant that people will often opt to use surface water instead, even if surface water has more serious pathogens or toxins. Anything more than 480 milligrams of salt per liter (everywhere but the pictured light-blue areas) is considered objectionable in taste by most. Image: MIT News / courtesy of the researchers

Purifying Water Through Solar Power in India

Layout of Cambrian Innovation's EcoVolt wastewater treatment system, which can generate enough electricity to meet 25 to 50 percent of a brewery's needs and produce about 25 percent of clean, reusable water. Image: MIT News Office, courtesy of Cambrian Innovation

Clean Energy from Wastewater Earns MIT Spinout “Pioneer” Status

John Lienhard (left) examines the energy footprint of water, while Ahmed Ghoniem (right) examines the water footprint of energy. Photo: Len Rubenstein

World Water Day: The Energy-Water Nexus