Keisuke Ikehata, an assistant professor in the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University, has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the United States Bureau of Reclamation’s Desalination and Water Purification Research program for further development of a photobiological process to improve freshwater recovery at desalination and water reuse facilities.[San Marcos,
Over the next five years, U.S. EPA hopes its new national drinking water standard will reduce per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) compounds in drinking water to almost zero as.
California has set a limit for the toxic heavy metal hexavalent chromium in drinking water. Advocates have called for a stricter limit, warning of health risks.