| Gates Foundation awards $10.9 million to study impacts of sanitation on diseases |
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Nov 5 2009 | UC Berkeley News Center |
| Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have received a five-year, $10.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate several interventions to combat diarrheal disease in developing countries. An estimated 2.2 million children under the age of 5 die from diarrheal diseases each year, according to the World Health Organization. Most of these diseases are thought to be preventable with improvements in sanitation, water quality and hygiene.
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| CNR Student Helps Keep Water Fresh in Uganda |
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Oct 7 2009 | CNR News |
| CNR student David Dinh is helping rural Ugandans to have access to safe drinking water. Working in conjunction with Uganda Village Project and with support from the Strauss Foundation, Dinh has established social enterprise in the Ugandan villages. |
| Alfalfa sprouts hold the line on meandering streams |
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Oct 5 2009 | UC Berkeley News |
| Christian Braudrick, William Dietrich and their colleagues are the first to build a scaled-down meandering stream in the lab that successfully meanders without straightening out or turning into braided streams. |
| Earth Scientist Narasimhan Wins Lifetime Achievement |
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Oct 4 2009 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| The Groundwater Resources Association of California (GRA) has given earth scientist T.N. (Nari) Narasimhan a Lifetime Achievement Award for his pioneering contributions to the field of groundwater hydrology. |
| Study Finds Benefits For Some To Filter Tap Water |
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Sep 17 2009 | CBS5 |
| Even with treatment, tap water may contain small amounts of certain contaminants. Some reports suggest how even water that meets current U.S. standards may still make certain people sick. A new study done in the Bay Area not only backs that up, but adds a possible solution. |
| A meeting with a Berkeley Lab scientist inspires a young inventor |
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Jul 23 2009 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Ashok Gadgil and Javier Fernández-Han first met in 2003 (above), when Gadgil showed the young Javier a model of his UV Waterworks. They met again Monday (right), after Javier took first place in the “Invent Your World 2009” contest. |
| Bottle-less Water Coolers |
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Jul 21 2009 | Bright Green News July Issue |
| At the Haas School of Business, there is a water cooler that is bottle-less and thus uses less energy and resources. Over the past winter break, Gerardo Campos, the facilities and building operations manager for Haas, retrofitted several water coolers by directly piping water from the sink to the dispensing unit. |
| Children Susceptible to Pesticides Longer Than Expected, Study Finds |
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Jun 22 2009 | UC Berkeley News Center |
| Although it is known that infants are more susceptible than adults to the toxic effects of pesticides, this increased vulnerability may extend much longer into childhood than expected, according to a new study by UC Berkeley researchers. |
| Global warming costs IIlinois farmers millions |
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Jun 22 2009 | San Francisco Examiner Online |
| Despite conventional wisdom that global warming is good for agriculture in the United States, research from LBNL and the Carnegie Institution shows that temperature changes associated with global warming are already harming corn production worldwide. |
| Water: Science Looks at the Source of Life |
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Jun 2 2009 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Climate means water
“When I say climate, I mean water,” says climate modeler Inez Fung of Berkeley Lab’s Earth Sciences Division, a professor of atmospheric science at UC Berkeley and the founder of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center and the Berkeley Institute for the Environment. “It’s the basis of the whole earth system. |
| From Bacon to Biofuel |
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Mar 30 2009 | Innovation |
| Brown grease—a nasty mélange of leftover animal fat, pan scrapings and other gunky residue—is a sewer pipe’s worst enemy. In San Francisco, a pilot project led by two Berkeley Engineering alumni is in the works to explore for the first time how wastewater treatment plants throughout California might turn the unappealing stuff into biodiesel fuel. |
| Quench your thirst the Berkeley way |
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Mar 19 2009 | UCB News Center |
| As 'hydration stations' are installed on campus, units team up to offer alternatives to plastic water bottles. Plastic bottles cost the environment as well as the pocketbook: 1.5 million tons of plastic go into producing the beverage containers annually — with fewer than 20 percent of them making it to recycling centers. Click to read full article. |
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