UCLA faculty voices: No quick fix for those melting glaciers
Daniela Cusack (department of Geography) declares there is no easy fix for climate.
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Archive Tag: Water
Using knowledge to quench a thirst
A UC-wide initiative to provide expertise in addressing California’s drought and water-related issues includes input from Glen MacDonald (Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and department of Geography) and Jay Famiglietti of the Scholarly and Technical Advisory Committee.
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UCLA Engineering’s mobile plant hits the road to treat polluted water
Yoram Cohen (Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering) has designed a water treatment pant called the Smart Integrated Membrane System- Brackish Water (SIMS-BW). The plant is a demonstration-scale field lab designed to test purification and desalination technologies developed at UCLA.
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UC summit: Experts advise on living with severe drought
The UCLA Sustainability Committee, including eighteen Sustainable LA faculty, was named Environmentalist of the Year by the nonprofit organization Faith2Green and Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz. The Sustainable LA Grand Challenge project was recognized for its contributions to UCLA’s high sustainability rating by the Princeton Review.
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Water saver: Engineer’s invention makes dirty water reusable
Yoram Cohen, the director of the Water Technology Research Center as well of member of the Institute of Environment and Sustainability and assistant professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, has designed a sophisticated water filtration system mimicking wetlands in nature. The system, which is called Gray2Blue Mobile Wetland Graywater Treatment System, has a maximum ouput capacity of 560 gallons of reusable water and could counceivably save Californians billions of gallons of water.
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