Água potável

Science and Technology

Three teenagers surprise the world by creating a powder with tamarind seeds that removes microplastics from water, requires no electricity, and wins an international prize of $12,500 at The Earth Prize 2026.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 03/06/2026 at 21:11

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An unprecedented system that transforms seawater into drinking water implemented in Rio Grande do Norte was introduced to technicians from Piauí and may in the future supply municipalities on the Piauí coast that suffer from a lack of fresh water, as part of the federal government’s Água Doce Program.

Bruno Teles 01/06/2026 at 20:43

Science and Technology

Norway prepares an unprecedented underwater plant that uses ocean pressure at a depth of 500 meters to transform seawater into drinking water with up to 50% less energy.

Noel Budeguer 30/05/2026 at 13:55

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A window-sized device, without electricity or filters, managed to extract potable water from the dry air of Death Valley using only sunlight, in an MIT study published in Nature Water that gives new impetus to a technology crowned with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2025.

Bruno Teles 27/05/2026 at 23:05

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Country ‘tears’ the sea with 340-meter underwater tunnels beneath the Atlantic to capture saltwater and erect a megaproject capable of producing up to 100 million liters of potable water per day in West Africa

Alisson Ficher 25/05/2026 at 14:42

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End of water scarcity: colossal 4.2 km pipeline in the Mediterranean supplies mega plant capable of producing 200 million liters per day with reverse osmosis, 25 million liter reservoir, and structure to serve 600,000 people in Tunisia

Alisson Ficher 25/05/2026 at 14:25

Science and Technology

Spain installs two giant pipelines 2.2 km off the coast to draw water from the Mediterranean and supply a megafacility capable of producing 200 million liters of drinking water per day.

Alisson Ficher 23/05/2026 at 16:53

Science and Technology

Doctoral student from UEPB creates solar desalination device that transforms brackish water into potable water, costs much less than traditional systems, and is already improving the lives of families who previously walked hours for water in the semi-arid region.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 20/05/2026 at 13:09

Construction

Australia installs giant concrete structures on the seabed 800 meters from the shore to create an ocean intake for desalination that will draw in saltwater and produce 30 million liters of drinking water per day.

Carla Teles 14/05/2026 at 19:16

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While communities suffer from water scarcity and the advancing desert, women in Morocco use nets high up in the mountains to trap fog droplets, fill reservoirs, and transport drinking water through more than 10 km of piping.

Flavia Marinho 12/05/2026 at 20:02

Science and Technology

While solar plants require constant sun, engineers are creating a solar system that continues to desalinate even without strong light, eliminates fragile membranes, and produces potable water by recycling heat in a nearly continuous cycle.

Alisson Ficher 10/05/2026 at 21:41

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A city attempts to transform treated sewage into potable water, the population reacts with disgust, politicians exploit the fear of “toilet-to-tap,” and the water supply project ends up silently buried.

Flavia Marinho 05/05/2026 at 20:01

Three teenagers surprise the world by creating a powder with tamarind seeds that removes microplastics from water, requires no electricity, and wins an international prize of $12,500 at The Earth Prize 2026.

Norway prepares an unprecedented underwater plant that uses ocean pressure at a depth of 500 meters to transform seawater into drinking water with up to 50% less energy.

A window-sized device, without electricity or filters, managed to extract potable water from the dry air of Death Valley using only sunlight, in an MIT study published in Nature Water that gives new impetus to a technology crowned with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2025.

Country ‘tears’ the sea with 340-meter underwater tunnels beneath the Atlantic to capture saltwater and erect a megaproject capable of producing up to 100 million liters of potable water per day in West Africa

End of water scarcity: colossal 4.2 km pipeline in the Mediterranean supplies mega plant capable of producing 200 million liters per day with reverse osmosis, 25 million liter reservoir, and structure to serve 600,000 people in Tunisia

Spain installs two giant pipelines 2.2 km off the coast to draw water from the Mediterranean and supply a megafacility capable of producing 200 million liters of drinking water per day.

Doctoral student from UEPB creates solar desalination device that transforms brackish water into potable water, costs much less than traditional systems, and is already improving the lives of families who previously walked hours for water in the semi-arid region.

Australia installs giant concrete structures on the seabed 800 meters from the shore to create an ocean intake for desalination that will draw in saltwater and produce 30 million liters of drinking water per day.

While communities suffer from water scarcity and the advancing desert, women in Morocco use nets high up in the mountains to trap fog droplets, fill reservoirs, and transport drinking water through more than 10 km of piping.

While solar plants require constant sun, engineers are creating a solar system that continues to desalinate even without strong light, eliminates fragile membranes, and produces potable water by recycling heat in a nearly continuous cycle.

A city attempts to transform treated sewage into potable water, the population reacts with disgust, politicians exploit the fear of “toilet-to-tap,” and the water supply project ends up silently buried.

Brazil will harvest a record crop of up to 357 million tons of grains, but it does not have the capacity to store a large part of it. The storage deficit has reached the highest level in history and is equivalent to almost the entire production of Argentina.

Four times faster than the Concorde, capable of taking passengers from New York to London in less than an hour at Mach 5.5, and with an engine that switches from turbojet to ramjet mid-flight at Mach 3.5, the Hermeus Quarterhorse went from paper to its first flight in just 19 months.

SpaceX will dock a $843 million vehicle to the International Space Station to push a nearly 420-ton laboratory against the atmosphere and make the debris fall in a controlled manner into the ocean.

China opens the world’s first school where more than 100 humanoid robots from different brands will study together, each movement will be repeated up to 600 times a day and the data will feed a collective brain that will teach all the robots of the future.

Cambodia has started digging a nearly 180-kilometer canal to connect the Mekong River directly to the sea and reduce its dependence on the ports of neighboring Vietnam.

Scientists considered detonating 213 nuclear bombs in the Sahara to create an artificial sea the size of El Salvador, with each explosion being a hundred times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, and the goal was to generate more energy than Egypt’s largest hydroelectric plant.