Featured Image by Ivan Bandura on Unsplash Researchers from NUS have developed a new way to treat sewage that is much simpler, cheaper and greener than existing methods. Bacteria capable of simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) as well as phosphate removal could eliminate the need for separate reactors to remove nutrients from wastewater. Additionally it could alleviate competition for […]
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Water On Wall Street
Featured Image: bummelhummel Water has officially joined Wall Street to be traded as a Futures commodity. Water availability is becoming increasingly less as climate change and human activities lead to severe droughts across the world. A recent flagship report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) revealed that about 1.2 billion people globally experienced very high […]
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Drinking Water Adsorbents Market Growth
Featured Image: Photo by Jong Marshes (Unsplash) The market will reach an estimated valuation of USD 642.22 million by 2027, while registering this growth at a rate of 4.10% for the forecast period of 2020 to 2027. Data Bridge Market Research report on drinking water adsorbents market provides analysis and insights regarding the varied factors […]
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Off-grid containerised water treatment plant
Featured Image:Photo by Henrique Félix on Unsplash. Poor water quality or lack of access to clean water is linked to increased child morbidity, as well as diseases, including trachoma, diabetes, kidney disease, thyroid disease and cancer. The World Health Organisation has estimated that access to clean and safe water and sanitation could reduce the global […]
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Lake Koocanusa needs a new limited selenium level
Featured Image: Lake Koocanusa, BC (Darren Kirby – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0). Last year’s report from the Environmental Protection Agency confirmed what had been suspected for years. The Teck’s coal mining in the Elk River Valley (in British Columbia, Canada) is sending selenium downstream to Lake Koocanusa. Even though the lake is more than a […]
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The Importance of a Socially Accepted Mine Closure Plan
Featured Image: ICMM The mining industry is a significant contributor to a lot of countries’ GDP, but it has the potential to also be a great contributor to their sustainable development. It is still an extremely rare occurrence to see mine closure plans as early as the design phase since most companies are focusing mainly […]
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More Ice Stupas for Ladakh villagers
Featured Image: Ladakh (Trần Trung Toàn Thiện on Unsplash). Ladakh is a cold desert plateau in India where villagers are dealing with water shortages caused by shrinking glaciers, consequently meltwater comes later in the year. Ladakh is situated in India, surrounded by Pakistan and China, close to the Himalayas. The mountains are taller than the plateau […]
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LME Week 2020: Covid-19 and its impact on ESG
Featured Image: London Metal Exchange: LME Week official banner (Photo: LME) With a second lockdown starting in many countries as a result of the Covid-19 world pandemic, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns are higher than ever and seem to become an increased focus-point for sectors like the mining industry. The pandemic is likely to […]
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Rio Tinto’s Juukan Caves Disaster – The State of Play
Featured Image: Protesters gathered outside Rio Tinto’s Perth office after the blasting of the Juukan caves. (Photo: SBS Australia) You will hopefully remember that the mongrels at Rio Tinto (LSE:RIO, ASX:RIO, NYSE:RIO) blasted two 46,000-year-old Aboriginal rock shelters of enormous cultural and technological significance into oblivion earlier this year, when they absolutely did not need […]
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5th Annual Nigeria Mining Week
Featured Image: Gas flaring in Nigeria. The 5th edition of the Nigerian Mining Week (NMW) started a bit patchy, but one thing was for sure the main point: mining needs to become a driver of economic recovery. Amid the COVID-19 epidemic, the government seems to think that the challenges created by the new world situation […]
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