Here we describe an electronic system that uses a dedicated water-level sensor to switch off the pump motor as soon as the ...

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One of the major problems faced by most countries today is water scarcity. This scarcity is mainly due to the wastage of water. There is an urgent need to control water wastage to protect the ...

Sensors to detect temperature, pressure, and gases, such as CO 2, have been around for centuries. However, the latest devices can measure a growing list of substances and process the data in real-time ...

Michaelyn Mankel is a senior Iowa organizer with the national advocacy group Food & Water Watch. She lives in Des Moines. Dani Replogle is a staff attorney with Food & Water Watch, based in Minnesota.

A new device cuts down the time it takes to harvest water from the atmosphere from days to minutes, MIT researchers say. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

In American Gas Association v. U.S. Department of Energy, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected a legal challenge to a regulation adopting energy efficiency ...

A federal appeals court has upheld Biden-era rules setting tighter standards for gas-powered commercial water heaters and consumer furnaces. The 2-1 decision Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

University of Iowa IIHR research associate Tom Stoeffler checks the sensor unit for a nitrate sensor at Waterworks Prairie Park in Iowa City on Sept. 11. The state’s automated network of sensors ...

Citizen-soldiers and the Puerto Rico National Guard distribute water to the community of Barahona in the municipality of Morovis, Puerto Rico, on Oct. 16, 2017. The Guardsmen arrived with two vehicles ...

The Des Moines River braids through a floodplain south of Woodward in Dallas County. A network of sensors across Iowa capture real-time data in rivers and streams, including nitrate, pH, temperature ...

They linger in our water, our blood and the environment—so-called "forever chemicals” that are notoriously difficult to detect. But researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of ...