From Clean to Contaminated: Indian Rivers Call for Urgent Action
by On a sun-drenched summer day, Vejle Ådal’s serene banks come alive with people strolling along its picturesque shores, casting their lines in tranquil waters, or …
Category: Clean water and sanitation
Danish Water Technology Researchers are Creating Development – and Good Business
The Danish water technology sector, which contributes to better drinking water supplies and wastewater treatment everywhere in the world, is exporting its equipment and solutions …
Dealing With a Water-Hungry Enterprise: How Science is Looking for a Water-Less Copper Industry in Chile
Chile has its massive copper mining industry to thank for a sizable portion of its gross national production, but the country can also point to …
Chile Faces the Mega Drought Looking for Technical and Social Solutions
According to data provided by the UN, by 2025 half of the world’s population will live in areas of water scarcity, making it essential to …
Danish Water Forum invites you to the 16th Annual Water Research Conference 2022
by The 16th Annual Water Research Face-to-Face Conference on 20th April 2022, provides you with 50+ presentations within a wide spectrum of themes from both Denmark …
Circular economy: Breaking the plastic waves
This article pertains to my ongoing MSc thesis in Sustainable Biotechnology, in which I am examining the role of bio-based plastics in the transition to …
Multidisciplinary collaboration to secure the future of water in Cape Town
In 2018, the City of Cape Town declared a city-wide water crisis, which would be punctuated by ‘Day Zero’ – the day the city would run out of water. The drought had been looming for years, and the City of Cape Town had made some management changes, but all rested on the assumption that rain would fall at the same rate as in the past.
MUCED: Personal development, educational development at universities and practical environmental development in the Malaysian society
One of the first Malaysian students to benefit from the MUCED programme was professor Suhaimi Abdul Talib. In 2001 he went to Denmark to work on his Ph.D. project Anoxic transformations of wastewater organic matter in sewers – process kinetics, model concept and wastewater treatment potential. During two periods of three months, he had his day-to-day work in the laboratories of Institute of Environmental Engineering at Aalborg University.
Female scientist fighting for her place studying climate change in Ecuador
Meet the Ecuadorian scientist who defied machismo-culture in the academic world in Ecuador, to study thoroughly a big passion for her – climate change and its effects on her native mountain region and in the end the water supply in the country.
Changing the diet nationally affects water globally
In November 2019, Dori Zantedeschi was attending the ELLS Student Conference 2019, in Uppsala at Ultuna campus of the Swedish Agricultural University (SLU). Along with listening to students’ presentations, I was catching up with some friends that are part of the same double degree program as mine called Environmental Science in Europe (EnvEuro), but that I don’t have the opportunity to see often, since we study in different universities. For the last two years, the ELLS conference has been a fixed appointment for meeting each other.