Featured Publication: High impact innovations for high-salinity membrane desalination
New research from NAWI is proposing a suite of tools to aid in evaluating technology platforms, setting system- and component-level ...
DOE Office of Science Accepting Applications for SCSGR Awards
DOE’s Office of Science is now accepting applications for Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Awards. SCGSR graduate awardees ...
Submit your work to NAWI-themed special issues
A year and a half into our research program, the NAWI community is beginning to generate significant research products. It ...
AMO Announces Phase 2 Applications are OPEN for Industrial Technology Validation Pilot Program
DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO - the sponsor of NAWI) has recently expanded its Better Plants Program to include a ...
NAWI Publishes Trailblazing Roadmap Series on Innovation for a Sustainable Water Future
NAWI has outlined what it will take to achieve water sustainability through innovative water-treatment technology in a master technology roadmap ...
Gripped by Drought, Marin Considers Desalination, Water Pipeline Over the Richmond Bridge | KQED
As the drought deepens across the West, coastal cities are considering whether or not to filter ocean water as a ...
Department of Energy Invests $5 Million in Desalination Technology to Deliver Freshwater to Communities Across America
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) announced $5 million in federal funding ...
The American West is bracing for a hot, dry, and dangerous summer | MIT Technology Review
Water levels are running dangerously low in rivers, reservoirs, and aquifers across much of the American West, raising serious dangers ...
Bluetech Workforce and Desal Could Help Solve California Water Crises | The Modesto Bee Opinion
Facing extended drought, diminishing snowpack, and depleted aquifers, California water managers face a harsh reality: our 20th century water systems ...
ExxonMobil Becomes Member in National Alliance for Water Innovation
The National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) announced today that ExxonMobil has officially joined the Alliance as a member. In ...
Driven for desalinization
March 2, 2020 | UC Irvine NewsUCI researchers Sunny Jiang, professor and chair of civil and environmental engineering, and and ...
Driven By Climate Change, Desalination Researchers Seek Solutions To Water Scarcity
Feb. 18, 2020 | Here and Now“The National Alliance for Water Innovation is really built on the premise that to ...
Polluted Wastewater in the Forecast? Try A Solar Umbrella
Jan. 6, 2020 | Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryBerkeley Lab scientists have demonstrated a “photo-thermal” umbrella that can double evaporation rates, ...
To solve global water scarcity, we need to get more serious about desalination
Dec. 30, 2019 | Popular Science NAWI Director Peter Fiske says “a much greater use of reclaimed and recycled water ...
Engineering a world of safer water
Nov. 11, 2019 | University of Colorado BoulderNo matter where you are in the world, Professor Karl Linden wants you ...
Q&A with research director of $100-million program to develop new sources for usable water
Oct. 17, 2019 | Stanford NewsA new and ambitious research project looks to develop affordable devices to recycle most of ...
New $100M Innovation Hub to Accelerate R&D for a Secure Water Future
Sept. 23, 2019 | U.S. Department of EnergyToday, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced the selection of the National ...
Clean Water – Sunny Desalination
August 1, 2019 | Oak Ridge National LaboratoryA new method developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory improves the energy efficiency ...
Can We Reuse Polluted Water? Yes, Add Bacteria
July 29, 2019 | Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryA team of scientists from Berkeley Lab and the Colorado School of Mines ...
When Kinetics and Thermodynamics Should Play Together
July 1, 2019 | Washington University in St. LouisResearchers at Washington University in St. Louis’s McKelvey School of Engineering have ...
NREL Accelerates the Development of Wave Energy Water Desalination Technologies in New Prize Competition
June 12, 2019 | National Renewable Energy LaboratoryA researcher with NREL’s Marine Energy team helped inform the structure and content ...
ORNL Designs New Chemical Architecture To Help Lay Groundwork for Clean Water and Energy Advances
June 4, 2019 | Oak Ridge National LaboratoryAs an organic chemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Santa Jansone-Popova focuses on ...
To Pump or Not to Pump: New Tool Will Help Water Managers Make Smarter Decisions
June 3, 2019 | Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryOverpumping of groundwater in California has led to near environmental catastrophe in some ...
Baylor University Joins Research Team Seeking to Transform U.S. Water System
May 14, 2019 | Baylor UniversityBaylor University has partnered with four Department of Energy laboratories and more than a dozen ...
Water in the West: How lawyers and toilet water will save cities
May 1, 2019 | University of Colorado BoulderWater has always been scarce in the West, but climate change and steady ...
Water Treatment Hub to Bridge Research, Commercialization
April 2, 2019 | Colorado School of MinesThe WE2ST (Water-Energy Education, Science and Technology) Water Technology Hub will accommodate large-scale ...
Beneath Solar Panels, the Seeds of Opportunity Sprout
April 1, 2019 | National Renewable Energy LaboratoryLow-impact development of solar installations could be win-win-win for food, water, and renewable ...
Clean Water—Better Separations
April 1, 2019 | Oak Ridge National LaboratoryA team of scientists led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory used carbon nanotubes ...
NMSU, Partners Vying for $100 Million Hub to Address Water Challenges
March 24, 2019 | New Mexico State UniversityAs a leader in water treatment research, the College of Engineering at New ...
NEWT Hits Pause on Photocatalysis
March 19, 2019 | Rice UniversityMore than three decades ago, when researchers began exploring photocatalysis as a way to purify ...
Scientific Collaboration Investigates Creative and Sustainable Bioenergy Solutions for Mining Industry
February 14, 2019 | National Renewable Energy LaboratoryWhen industry, government laboratories, and universities work together, creative solutions can arise to ...
NREL Expands Research in Geothermal and Solar Desalination
December 10, 2018 | National Renewable Energy LaboratoryNREL scientists have a long history of successfully analyzing geothermal and solar energy ...
Seeing a Salt Solution’s Structure Supports One Hypothesis About How Minerals Form
October 23, 2018 | Oak Ridge National LaboratoryScientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutrons, isotopes, and simulations to “see” ...
How Drought and Other Extremes Impact Water Pollution
October 10, 2018 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory A Q&A with Berkeley Lab hydrological science expert Bhavna Arora, who explains ...
DOE Funds Field Test of Rice’s Solar Desalination Technology
June 25, 2018 | Rice UniversityThe Department of Energy has awarded $1.7 million to a Rice University-led team for further ...
Berkeley Lab Aims for Big Breakthroughs in Water Technology
March 19, 2018 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Recognizing that the issues of water and energy are critically interdependent, Lawrence ...