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On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature - Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature -

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature
Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature

"Water firms in England could face harsher sewage fines under new Environment Agency powers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Water

Iowa Agriculture Runs on 110 Billion Pounds of Manure, at a Cost to Its Water #AnimalRights

Iowa Agriculture Runs on 110 Billion Pounds of Manure, at a Cost to Its Water - Inside Climate News
In the nation’s leading pork-producing state, animal waste fuels crop growth but impairs water quality in a leaky circular system.

Luddites: "Any council implementing water fluoridation will pay a little bit of money but their residents will save a lot more money and save dental care treatment costs from childhood through adulthood."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-25/gym

Gympie Regional Council votes to remove fluoride from town's water supply
Gympie scraps fluoride from its water supply and becomes the third region in Queensland to reject the practice in just over a year.

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature - Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature -

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature
Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature

A Robust Predictive Control Method for Pump Scheduling in Water Distribution Networks
Mirhan \"Urkmez, Carsten Kalles{\o}e, Jan Dimon Bendtsen, Eric C. Kerrigan, John Leth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18492

A Robust Predictive Control Method for Pump Scheduling in Water Distribution Networks
Water utilities aim to reduce the high electrical costs of Water Distribution Networks (WDNs), primarily driven by pumping. However, pump scheduling is challenging due to model uncertainties and water demand forecast errors. This paper presents a Robust Model Predictive Control (RMPC) method for optimal and reliable pump scheduling, extending a previous efficient robust control method tailored to our model. A linear model with bounded additive disturbances is used to represent tank water level …

🌞 Sunlight-activated material turns PFAS in water into harmless fluoride
#chemistry

Sunlight-activated material turns PFAS in water into harmless fluoride
Researchers at the University of Adelaide have developed a sunlight-activated material that can degrade per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water, breaking down the pollutant into harmless components, including fluoride. The work is published in the journal Small.

Google releases a study saying a median Gemini text prompt uses 0.26mm of water and makes ~0.03g CO2; critics call it misleading for omitting indirect water use (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/763080/google-ai-gemini-water-energy…

Google says a typical AI text prompt only uses 5 drops of water — experts say that’s misleading
Google estimates that a Gemini text prompt uses a minimal amount of water and energy, but experts say the study paints an incomplete picture of AI’s environmental toll.

Unsupervised Online Detection of Pipe Blockages and Leakages in Water Distribution Networks
Jin Li, Kleanthis Malialis, Stelios G. Vrachimis, Marios M. Polycarpou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16336

Unsupervised Online Detection of Pipe Blockages and Leakages in Water Distribution Networks
Water Distribution Networks (WDNs), critical to public well-being and economic stability, face challenges such as pipe blockages and background leakages, exacerbated by operational constraints such as data non-stationarity and limited labeled data. This paper proposes an unsupervised, online learning framework that aims to detect two types of faults in WDNs: pipe blockages, modeled as collective anomalies, and background leakages, modeled as concept drift. Our approach combines a Long Short-Ter…

Sometimes when I put pills and water in my mouth, I forget how to swallow without chewing
I can swallow water just fine, and I can chew and swallow food just fine, but even though I take pills every day, often I stall with my mouth full of water, whether it's one pill or multiple, and no matter how much water

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
White Fence:
🎵 Hard Water
#WhiteFence
https://whitefence.bandcamp.com/track/hard-water
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ke5HRU3akCsZfN2g84toW

Magnetically induced convection enhances water electrolysis in #microgravity: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-025-01890-0 -> New Research Enhances Oxygen Production for Space Missions: https://www.zarm.uni-bremen.de/en/news-list/news-display?tx_news_pi1[action]=detail&tx_news_pi1[controller]=News&tx_news_pi1[news]=422&cHash=848685cc29bedccacbabce23b44180b5 - a breakthrough in space life support systems, simply because water is magnetic.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pressyes:
🎵 Blue Crystal Water
#NowPlaying #Pressyes
https://pressyes.bandcamp.com/track/blue-crystal-water
https://open.spotify.com/track/6yqShXdHgQUXP5PnQpAsoN

"Water Cremation" - also known as hydrolysis,
involves water, heat and an alkaline solution being applied to a body in a chamber similar to that used in cremation.
And while the current method of reducing a person’s remains to ashes requires enormously high temperatures,
those in favour of water cremation say it is far less energy intensive and therefore more environmentally friendly.

Scotland to be first part of UK to introduce water cremation
Changes to legislation have paved the way for a more environmentally friendly and ‘gentler’ option for body disposal

The #Frogs like the new pond lettuce, it seems. 😍 🐸 🌱
Pic taken by my wife earlier today.

A Multiobjective Mathematical Model for Optimal Irrigation Water Allocation
Nahid Sultana, M. M. Rizvi, G. M. Wali Ullah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19629 https://

A Multiobjective Mathematical Model for Optimal Irrigation Water Allocation
Water resource management is vital for sustainable irrigation and food security under growing climatic and economic pressures. In this study, we develop two single-objective optimization models for irrigation planning, one that maximizes net benefit and the other that minimizes environmental flow deficiency, and benchmark them against previous works. We then extend the analysis to a multiobjective linear programming formulation solved through different approaches to evaluate trade-offs. Numeric…

"From dirty water to wildlife protections, the environmental cost of Brexit only gets higher"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wildlife

Cost-optimized replacement strategies for water electrolysis systems affected by degradation
Marie Arnold, Jonathan Brandt, Geert Tjarks, Anna Vanselow, Richard Hanke-Rauschenbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16370

Cost-optimized replacement strategies for water electrolysis systems affected by degradation
A key factor in reducing the cost of green hydrogen production projects using water electrolysis systems is to minimize the degradation of the electrolyzer stacks, as this impacts the lifetime of the stacks and therefore the frequency of their replacement. To create a better understanding of the economics of stack degradation, we present a linear optimization approach minimizing the costs of a green hydrogen supply chain including an electrolyzer with degradation modeling. By calculating the le…

We’re not the only ones trying to help families in North Gaza evacuate to relative safety in the South.
@…’s efforts were an inspiration for Gaza Verified. And their appeal is struggling.
https://

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their campaigns are extremely stagnant and wanted to find a way to direct steady help to them. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support.

Computation of the heat capacity of water from first principles
Motoyuki Shiga, Jan Elsner, J\"org Behler, Bo Thomsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19765 https://

Computation of the heat capacity of water from first principles
Water is a unique solvent with many remarkable properties. An example is its exceptionally high heat capacity, which plays an important role in storing and transporting thermal energy, with implications for many processes from regulating the body temperature of living organisms to moderating our climate at the global scale. To elucidate the microscopic origin of the heat capacity of water from first principles, highly accurate computer simulations are required. Apart from a reliable description…

Wake dynamics of a square cylinder while moving upward in quiescent water
Intesaaf Ashraf, Stephane Dorbolo, Neetu Tiwari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18305 https://

Estimation of Temporal Muon Signals in Water-Cherenkov Detectors of the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Margita Kub\'atov\'a (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18333

Quite an enjoyable sunday morning reddit thread unraveling the considerations of misleading comparisons between the water consumption of using a chatbot to eating a burger https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/s/iVNSY6CXBz

Healthy European peatlands require specific temperature and water level parameters #Europe

Healthy European peatlands require specific temperature and water level parameters
Efforts to enhance peat accumulation in European peatlands, which contain around half of Europe's soil carbon, will require a combination of warm temperatures and a specific depth of the water table, according to a study published in PLOS One by Graeme Swindles of Queen's University Belfast, U.K. and colleagues.

Abigail Spanberger Supporter Wields Racist Sign: 'If Trans Can't Share Your Bathroom Then Blacks Can't Share My Water Fountain' (Matthew Xiao/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/abigail-spanberger-supporter-wields-racist-sign-if-trans-cant-share-your-bathroom-then-blacks-cant-share-my-water-fountain/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p116#a250822p116

Three-step growth of vapor-deposited ice under mesospheric temperature and water vapor conditions
Reo Sato, Kentaro Noguchi, Hiroyuki Koshida, Atsuki Ishibashi, Tetsuya Hama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18477

Three-step growth of vapor-deposited ice under mesospheric temperature and water vapor conditions
Polar mesospheric clouds provide clues to physicochemical processes in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere. However, the heterogeneous nucleation and growth processes of water ice under polar mesospheric conditions are poorly understood, especially at the nanoscale. This study used reflection high energy electron diffraction and infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy to analyze the structure of vapor-deposited ice at polar mesospheric temperature (120 K) under vapor pressure conditions. …

Waterfront near the Ithaca Farmer's Market looking north up the Inlet, to the left you can see the dock where boats can dock to visit the farmer's market or conduct tours of the lake
#ithaca #farmersmarket

3 things Cowboys must change before the Packers blow them out the water in Week 3 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/24/things-cowboys-must-do-differently-vs-packer…

Crater Observing Bio-inspired Rolling Articulator (COBRA)
Adarsh Salagame, Henry Noyes, Alireza Ramezani, Eric Sihite, Arash Kalantari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19473 https://

Crater Observing Bio-inspired Rolling Articulator (COBRA)
NASA aims to establish a sustainable human basecamp on the Moon as a stepping stone for future missions to Mars and beyond. The discovery of water ice on the Moon's craters located in permanently shadowed regions, which can provide drinking water, oxygen, and rocket fuel, is therefore of critical importance. However, current methods to access lunar ice deposits are limited. While rovers have been used to explore the lunar surface for decades, they face significant challenges in navigating harsh…

Two European incidents revealed last week -- an attack on a Norwegian dam by a Russia-friendly group known as Z-Pentest Alliance and a supposedly Russia-linked attack on a Polish city's water supply -- underscore that water utilities should intensify their focus on cybersecurity.
Check out my latest CSO piece. Thanks to former White House cyber official Jake Braun and ICS security specialist Ron Fabela for their insights.
Russia-linked European attacks renew concerns over wat…

Russia-linked European attacks renew concerns over water cybersecurity
Suspected sabotage in Norway and a foiled cyberattack in Poland highlight the growing risk to under-protected water utilities, experts warn.

'Cyber partisans' hack Russian TV, broadcast battlefield casualties and 'truth' about war, HUR source claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/cyber-partisans-hack-russian-tv.html

Three things re this intriguing article from @…:
- I always treat health science news like this with extreme caution (“In mice” again!)
- but also I’m hopeful this might lead somewhere, have to pursue that chance, go go researchers!
- and this is exactly the kind of research that’s going to drain out of the US in coming years like water out of a canvas sack
https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/115084815329503406

temporarily healed by neil young & the chrome hearts at jones beach, GA pit abandoned to post-hurricane high tides & return of venue's old moat. windswept mix in balcony, birds dislodged from stage roof flocking during loud tunes. 1st "long walk home" since '89 & "singer without a song" since '13.

Been seeing this guy regularly on our walk along the canal trails in our neighborhood.
Just read that Egrets eat fish, and insects, and frogs. There are a ton of frogs in these canals, so now I know why we see Egrets so often. And they're so chill and graceful. Really amazing creature.
#wildlife #outdoors

Turning a desert into an oasis: Maroccan scientists transform fog into drinking water
#desert

A facilitation-induced fluidization transition in supercooled water triggered by a few active molecules
Quoc Tuan Truong, Victor Teboul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16790 https://…

A facilitation-induced fluidization transition in supercooled water triggered by a few active molecules
Using an activation mechanism reproducing facilitation, a dynamic phase transition triggered by a few active molecules was recently found in a supercooled model liquid. Prompted by this finding we investigate the presence of a similar transition in supercooled water. We find the presence of the phase transition in water despite the numerous anomalies of water, suggesting universality of the transition. The transition appears at constant temperature, being only induced by the motion of a small p…

might just drink some water and pass out idk life's a bit much at the moment

An American dipper, Cinclus mexicanus, living up to its name at Snow Lake earlier this week. These guys are aquatic songbirds, basically thrushes who saw what ducks do and decided it looked fun
#naturalist #wildlife #bird

Tell me again how 'AI is going to revolutionise education' when roughly a quarter of primary schools globally don't even have electricity, toilets, drinking water, and basic WASH facilities.
It's 1925 in 2025 for 25% of schools in the world.
#Education #GlobalEducation

I managed to get my laptop too damn wet Thursday before last (we had a short, torrential downpour and I had not cinched my bag tight enough to keep the water out), I have AppleCare, the laptop came back, but without its data, fortunately I had a backup of everything but recently downloaded biking video. Happily, the interesting video, was still on the camera, and it shows exactly what I had hoped it did. I was riding on my newly assembled (aftermarket)

From David Suzuki
The suicidal insanity of non-stop growth
Air, water and land are polluted and degraded as the climate heats to catastrophic levels, yet we continue to burn fossil fuels and devastate carbon sinks.
It’s malignant. It’s suicidal. And it’s unfair. The obscenely wealthy hoard money and resources, amassing billions of dollars, luxury yachts, mansions and private jets while others starve and struggle to survive.

The suicidal insanity of non-stop growth
The planet offers everything we need to survive and thrive, but not if we continue to wastefully exploit it.

Proud to have my research featured alongside Sasha Luccione/Hugging Face Noman Bashir/MIT Marissa Loewen in this AP story on ways to reduce your AI climate impact—and a surprising blind spot most users have about their digital footprint.
https://abcnews.go.co…

On-device Internet of Sounds Sonification with Wavetable Synthesis Techniques for Soil Moisture Monitoring in Water Scarcity Contexts
Stephen Roddy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19097

England’s commercial datacentres are using far less water than many assume, according to a new report published by industry group techUK in collaboration with the Environment Agency.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/england-s-da…

England’s datacentres use minimal water in cooling operations, techUK
England’s commercial datacentres are using far less water than many assume, according to a new report published by industry group techUK in collaboration with the ...

Global Drought Escalation Since 2014: Multivariate Insights for Ecosystem Resilience and Water Security
Qianqian Han, Yijian Zeng, Bob Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20195 https:…

Global Drought Escalation Since 2014: Multivariate Insights for Ecosystem Resilience and Water Security
How is climate change altering the global patterns, frequency, and intensity of drought? To investigate this, we analyzed global drought events from 2000-2020 using a composite of hydrological indices (Σ(ET-P), SSMI, and GRACE-DSI). Our results reveal that near-normal to severe droughts became increasingly widespread after 2014. Unexpectedly, extreme, 100-year return period droughts occurred not only in semi-arid zones but also in high latitude and typically wet regions. The frequency of these…

2.1 miles on my SUP in the Gulf of Mexico today. It had been a while since I paddled. After abdominal surgery in June I was worried about core strength but all good. Stood the whole way. No falls. Perfect beach landing which is definitely not the norm for me.

@… thanks!
At first sight, I'll never interpret the circle as anything other than the letter O.
I will remember that it's electrically off when the red or blue handle is turned ninety degrees – away from the pipe – for the hot or cold water to not get through.
Laughable, but true. Finally, I have found a way to remember what's wha…

Hölick #halsingland #Hudiksvall 24 grader i vattnet, stora vågor, sol och en kite-surfare.
Swedish summer, 24 degrees celsius in the water, nice waves and a kite-surfer in the far

Watching the epic "stuiben" (aka spray) of the water crashing down 160 meters at Stuibenfall (Ötztal, Austria, tallest waterfall in Tyrol)...
#WaterfallWednesday #Waterfall #NaturePhotography

Puget Sound marine layer with an extremely well defined edge. Maybe a hundred feet high, and in about the same horizontal distance you go from pea soup to a bright sunny day with clear blue skies

Not just electricity — water supplies will be taxed by data centers - Route Fifty
https://www.route-fifty.com/artificial-intelligence/2025/08/not-just-electricity-water-supplies-will-be-taxed-data-centers/407593/

Biological Crowding Annihilates Terahertz Transmission Nonlinearity in Aqueous Protein Solutions
Ellen M. Adams, Igor Ilyakov, Manthan Raj, Daniel Dornbusch, Thales V. A. G. de Oliveira, Atiqa Arshad, Gulloo Lal Prajapati, Alexey Ponomaryov, Jan-Christop Deinert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18701

Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

Piloting Drones as a Reforestation Tool
Tree planting typically occurs two years after a fire. Alternatively, aerial drone seeding can occur a couple of months after a fire, once the seed vessels are ready and the winter rains arrive to water the seeds. https://www.nationalforests.org/blog/piloting-drones-as-a-reforestation-tool

An integrated theoretical, experimental, and numerical study of small-amplitude water waves
Lennon \'O N\'araigh, Nicolas Farault, Nicola Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18403

An integrated theoretical, experimental, and numerical study of small-amplitude water waves
We introduce an inexpensive experimental setup for analyzing free-surface water waves: a $1\,\mathrm{m}$-long tabletop flume made from perspex, driven by a variable-frequency piston wavemaker built from Lego. Using mobile-phone video capture, we collect experimental data and compare it with predictions from linear gravity-capillary wave theory and with multiphase simulations performed in OpenFOAM. We find excellent quantitative agreement across all three approaches. Our setup may be valuable fo…

Hmmmm… here is a problem I did not anticipate.
Every time I empty the main pond hole of water, (the actual hole under the liner) water returns within an hour or two. I’ve done it 4 times now, and it keeps filling back up with water.
Obviously there is water underground infiltrating into the pond hole, and/or the water table itself is above the bottom of the hole. It is not coming from either of the other holes because they both have the same amount of water in them as they did this morning.
I have “watered” the blueberry patch and hazelnut tree a lot with the water that I have been cleaning the filter with… and we also had lots of water flying around outside the liners yesterday as I tested the pump. So it is quite possible that the ground around the pond is simply well saturated.
I think I am going to have to just keep removing the water (and putting it into the sewer) until it does not refill. We have a week of hot weather coming. Surely that will be enough time for everything to dry out completely.
Otherwise I might run into some issues if the rains return before I can anchor down the pond liner with gravel and get the plumbing in!
How is time already running short!?
Never underestimate the ability of water to find a place where it is not wanted. 😆
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy

On Solar DHW, Sunamp, PV Divert - Solar hot water. #solar #DHW #PV -

On Solar DHW, Sunamp, PV Divert
Solar hot water. #solar #DHW #PV

Another sunrise shot from Myrtle Beach this morning. This one took a bit of massaging to get it to match what I intended for it. Raw image processed into bracketed-exposure tif files, run through Luminence HDR to create a composite HDR image, then composited again with the original exposure and selective parts of the HDR rendering erased to let the original show through (mostly around the sun and highlights on the water). Purposely left a little uncanny valley, "This is an HDR Image&quo…

Pond Slider turtles basking on the rocks in a pond. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. December, 2024. #laarboretum #turtle #pondslider

‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/20/just-add-water-how-to-bring-back-ancient-plants-in-a-norfolk-ghost-pond…

Japan has opened its first
osmotic power plant,
in the south-western city of Fukuoka.
Only the second power plant of its type in the world,
it is expected to generate about 880,000 kilowatt hours of electricity each year
– enough to help power a desalination plant that supplies fresh water to the city and neighbouring areas.
Osmotic power plants place freshwater and seawater on either side of a special membrane,
with the seawater slightly pressurised…

The outages channel in teams says that the hot water is out today. It's a good thing that I work from home.

#silentsunday
Heron. September 2025

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FocusBeats
Low Heat:
🎵 Water Reflections
#LowHeat
https://wearestereofox.bandcamp.com/track/low-heat-water-reflections
https://open.spotify.com/track/59Kkk6OH3GTVBi7gErEngI

tesco “helpfully” delivered us corn-on-the-cob as a substitute for chopped onions, sigh
so i just fed it to me and the boys, done very simply: boiled in salty water, and served liberally coated in butter salt pepper
pretty yummy as an after-school snack, we should maybe have it more often

Colossal Effect of Nanopore Surface Ionic Charge on the Dynamics of Confined Water
Armin Mozhdehei (IPR), Philip Lenz (UHH), Stella Gries (TUHH), Sophia-Marie Meinert (UHH), Ronan Lefort (IPR), Jean-Marc Zanotti (LLB - UMR 12, MMB), Quentin Berrod (STEP), Markus Appel (ILL), Mark Busch (TUHH), Patrick Huber (TUHH), Michael Fr\"oba (UHH), Denis Morineau (IPR)

Colossal Effect of Nanopore Surface Ionic Charge on the Dynamics of Confined Water
Interfacial interactions significantly alter the fundamental properties of water confined in mesoporous structures, with crucial implications for geological, physicochemical, and biological processes. Herein, we focused on the effect of changing the surface ionic charge of nanopores with comparable pore size (3.5-3.8 nm) on the dynamics of confined liquid water. The control of the pore surface ionicity was achieved by using two periodic mesoporous organosilicas (PMOs) containing either neutral …

As beautiful as a sailboat looks. In my eyes it's totally not worth the effort to own one (on lakes in Germany). While I enjoy helping my friends with their boats occasionally ... the amount of maintenance just confirms my bias every time :D

Implicit and Explicit Formulas of the Joint RDF for a Tuple of Multivariate Gaussian Sources with Individual Square-Error Distortions
Evagoras Stylianou, Charalambos D. Charalambous, Themistoklis Charalambous
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16301

Implicit and Explicit Formulas of the Joint RDF for a Tuple of Multivariate Gaussian Sources with Individual Square-Error Distortions
This paper analyzes the joint Rate Distortion Function (RDF) of correlated multivariate Gaussian sources with individual square-error distortions. Leveraging Hotelling's canonical variable form, presented is a closed-form characterization of the joint RDF, that involves {a system of nonlinear equations. Furthermore, for the special case of symmetric distortions (i.e., equal distortions), the joint RDF is explicitly expressed in terms of} two water-filling variables. The results greatly improve …

Space missions that could have been ... found this report - #Moon in the 1980s, visiting the poles where water ice was suspected. And using a lander to be built in LEO from components launched on three space shuttles. Not an option for Artemis III today, I'm afraid ...

For everything coming out of Apple, there is a blogger saying that’s the best thing since hot water.
- M5 is not a boring update.
- Liquid Glass is not a failed & without purpose UX change.
- Tim Cook…
One by one I stopped reading them. Having a different opinion is ok if you can support it.

"La plupart des gens savent qu'ils devraient boire plus d'eau, mais notre nouvelle étude révèle une conséquence inattendue de cette lacune : le stress quotidien pourrait devenir beaucoup plus difficile Š gérer."
#science #santé

Terrestrial Exoplanet Internal Structure Constraints Enabled by Comprehensive Host Star Characterization Reveal that Terrestrial Planets in Mean-motion Resonances are Water Rich
Alejandra Ross, Henrique Reggiani, Kevin C. Schlaufman, Mykhaylo Plotnykov, Diana Valencia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16421…

Terrestrial Exoplanet Internal Structure Constraints Enabled by Comprehensive Host Star Characterization Reveal that Terrestrial Planets in Mean-motion Resonances are Water Rich
Exoplanet mass and radius inferences fundamentally rely on host star mass and radius inferences. Despite the importance of host star mass, radius, and elemental abundance inferences for the derivation of exoplanet internal structure constraints, published constraints have often been based on inferences that are not self-consistent. For 24 dwarf stars hosting terrestrial exoplanets, we use astrometric and photometric data plus high-resolution spectroscopy to infer accurate, precise, homogeneous,…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Water From Your Eyes:
🎵 Playing Classics
#WaterFromYourEyes
https://waterfromyoureyes.bandcamp.com/track/playing-classics
https://open.spotify.com/track/231MlrwBMFPgJC05VChPXF

The EU's aim to triple AI data center capacity over the next five to seven years sparks water scarcity concerns, especially in water-stressed Southern Europe (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/water-ai-mega-projects-raise-alar…

Thirsty AI mega projects raise alarm in some of Europe’s driest regions
Europe is planning to at least triple its data center capacity as part of a push to become a world-class AI hub.

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature - Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature -

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature
Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature

He was a child refugee.
Now he’s a bishop navigating Trump’s deportation push.
When Bishop Michael Pham walks the halls of immigration court,
he sees migrants facing the most intense U.S. deportation campaign in decades,
and glimpses moments of his own life.

Pham says he remembers being 8 years old on a packed cargo boat floating off the coast of Vietnam for days without food or water,
eventually realizing the bodies across the deck weren’t asleep.

He was a child refugee. Now he’s a bishop navigating Trump’s deportation push.
San Diego Bishop Michael Pham, the first U.S. bishop picked by Pope Leo, is part of a new wave of clerical leaders speaking out about migrants’ rights.

Identifying rocky planets and water worlds among sub-Neptune-sized exoplanets with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Renyu Hu, Michiel Min, Max Millar-Blanchaer, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Tyler Robinson, Jennifer Burt, Athena Coustenis, Mario Damiano, Chuanfei Dong, Courtney Dressing, Luca Fossati, Stephen Kane, Soumil Kelkar, Tim Lichtenberg, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Dibyendu Sur, Armen Tokadjian, Martin Turbet

Identifying rocky planets and water worlds among sub-Neptune-sized exoplanets with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Astronomers are debating whether the plentiful "sub-Neptune" exoplanets -- worlds a bit larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune -- are predominantly rocky planets, water-rich "ocean worlds," or gas-enshrouded mini-Neptunes. This question is crucial because such sub-Neptune-sized planets are among the most common in our galaxy, yet we have no analog in our own solar system, making them a key to understanding planet formation and diversity. It also directly impacts the search for habitable wor…

A Central Chilled Water Plant Model for Designing Learning-Based Controllers
Zhong Guo, Prabir Barooah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15649 https://arxiv.org/p…

A Central Chilled Water Plant Model for Designing Learning-Based Controllers
We describe a framework of modeling a central chilled water plant (CCWP) that consists of an aggregate cooling coil, a number of heterogeneous chillers and cooling towers, and a chilled water-based thermal energy storage system. We improve upon existing component models from the open literature using a constrained optimization-based framework to ensure that the models respect capacities of all the heat exchangers (cooling coils, chillers, and cooling towers) irrespective of th…

Pore-Scale Dynamics of Multiphase Reactive Transport in Water-Wet Carbonates under CO2-Acidified Brine Injection: Dissolution Patterns and Reaction Rates
Qianqian Ma, Rukuan Chai, Sajjad Foroughi, Yanghua Wang, Martin J. Blunt, Branko Bijeljic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18907

Pore-Scale Dynamics of Multiphase Reactive Transport in Water-Wet Carbonates under CO2-Acidified Brine Injection: Dissolution Patterns and Reaction Rates
Depleted carbonate hydrocarbon reservoirs are promising sites for geological CO2 storage, yet the presence of residual hydrocarbons introduces complex pore-scale interactions that influence the dynamics of solid dissolution. This study reveals how residual oil affects dissolution patterns and effective reaction rates during CO2-acidified brine injection into Ketton limestone under reservoir conditions. We combine time-resolved X-ray microtomography (micro-CT), core-flooding experiments, and dir…

Running dry: New study warns of extreme water scarcity in the coming decades
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-dry-extreme-scarcity-decades.html

View from creek level at Monkey Run: there's a research farm on top of the bluff on the far side. (That little blotch in the upper center is a Monarch butterfly!)
#photo #photography #landscape

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Long Fling:
🎵 Cool Bottle Water Park
#LongFling
https://longfling.bandcamp.com/track/cool-bottle-water-park
https://open.spotify.com/track/67FL1EHWD8xLfcd21j4kky

Solving Sparse MIQCQPs: Application to the Unit Commitment Problem with ACOPF Constraints
Ignacio G\'omez-Casares, Pietro Belotti, Bissan Ghaddar, Julio Gonz\'alez-D\'iaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18911

Solving Sparse MIQCQPs: Application to the Unit Commitment Problem with ACOPF Constraints
Mixed-Integer Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs arise in a variety of applications, particularly in energy, water, and gas systems, where discrete decisions interact with nonconvex quadratic constraints. These problems are computationally challenging due to the combination of combinatorial complexity and nonconvexity, often rendering traditional exact methods ineffective for large-scale instances. In this paper, we propose a solution framework for sparse MIQCQPs that integrates semid…

I don’t understand why we must spend billions of dollars and waste so much water for AI.
I just created an “AI-generated image” from the original using a few dabs of the retouch tool in the Photos app.
Might have taken a sip of water afterwards but that was it.
(Is there a word/phrase for taking a regular image and making it look like it was AI generated? There should be.)

Pristine ices in a planet-forming disk revealed by heavy water: #PlanetForming disk: https://public.nrao.edu/news/first-ever-detection-of-heavy-water-in-a-planet-forming-disk/ - new ALMA data traces water found in comets, and planet formation, back to the dawn of the cosmos / How old is our water? https://www.eso.org/public/blog/water-origin/

"Santa Monica's waves have turned a bright pink: How can the dye job improve water quality?"
#SantaMonica #Water #Environment

Santa Monica's waves have turned a bright pink: How can the dye job improve water quality?
Over the next two weeks, surfers and beachgoers in Santa Monica may spot waves that have a pink, fluorescent hue—but officials say not to worry.

A novel framework for disinfection analisys in drinking water networks
Daniele Laucelli, Lucia Vergine, Giuseppina Messa, Orazio Giustolisi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14985 http…

A novel framework for disinfection analisys in drinking water networks
Disinfection in drinking water networks is performed to ensure water safety and potability. However, disinfectants can react with organic compounds present in the water networks. The reaction of disinfectants with such compounds generates byproducts that could be dangerous for human health. The compounds are generally endogenous, i.e., adhered or/and released by the pipe wall, and not introduced from reservoirs because water utilities efficiently monitor and manage their water quality. The pres…

Born Dry or Born Wet? A Palette of Water Growth Histories in TRAPPIST-1 Analogs and Compact Planetary Systems: #Exoplanet System.

In Sabzevar for the second consecutive night, angry residents held demonstrations.
The protest began at Farmandari Square and Abouzar Street, and protesters blocked Bahonar Street.
Women were at the forefront of the rally, chanting slogans such as:
“Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, we’re all in this together,”
“Water, electricity, and life are our basic rights,”
and “We don’t want incompetent officials.”

Iran - Sabzevar: Second Night of Protests Against Water and Power Outages - NCRI
Maryam Rajavi: Like so many of Iran’s resources, the country’s water supplies have not been spared from the plunder and corruption of the clerical regime.

Watts and Drops: Co-Scheduling Power and Water in Desalination Plants
Ahmed S. Alahmed, Audun Botterud, Saurabh Amin, Ali T. Al-Awami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19243 https://…

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/09/radioactive-water-bomb-base-scotland-leak-sea-files

"Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Water

"only 3 percent of the documents that were given to us were new. 97 percent were already in the public domain and less than 1 percent of the Epstein files have actually been released. “
'Let me break some news': Dem lawmaker pours cold water on new Epstein file release - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/epstein-files-khanna/

SPHEREx Discovery of Strong Water Ice Absorption and an Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in 3I/ATLAS
C. M. Lisse, Y. P. Bach, S. Bryan, B. P. Crill, A. Cukierman, O. Dor\'e, B. Fabinsky, A. Faisst, P. M. Korngut, G. Melnick, Z. Rustamkulov, V. Tolls, M. Werner, M. L. Sitko, C. Champagne, M. Connelley, J. P. Emery, B. Yang, the SPHEREx Science Team
https://

SPHEREx Discovery of Strong Water Ice Absorption and an Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in 3I/ATLAS
In mid-August 2025, 0.75-5.0 micron SPHEREx imaging spectrophotometric and ancillary NASA-IRTF SpeX 0.7-2.5 micron low-resolution spectral observations of Interstellar Object 3I ATLAS were obtained. The combined spectrophotometry is dominated by features due to water ice absorption and CO2 gas emission. A bright, 3 arcmin radius CO2 gas coma was clearly resolved, corresponding to Qgas,CO2 = 9.4 x 10{^26} molec/sec. From the SPHEREx photometry, we put conservative, preliminary 3sigma upper limit…

On Solar DHW, Sunamp, PV Divert - Solar hot water. #solar #DHW #PV -

On Solar DHW, Sunamp, PV Divert
Solar hot water. #solar #DHW #PV

SPHEREx Discovery of Strong Water Ice Absorption and an Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in 3I/ATLAS: #InterstellarComet 3I-ATLAS: https://spherex.caltech.edu/news/3i-atlas-co2-coma

The shocking reason Arctic rivers are turning rusty orange #Arctic

The shocking reason Arctic rivers are turning rusty orange
Researchers found that ice can trigger stronger chemical reactions than liquid water, dissolving iron minerals in extreme cold. Freeze-thaw cycles amplify the effect, releasing iron into rivers and soils. With climate change accelerating these cycles, Arctic waterways may face major transformations.

Reevaluating Anomalous Electric Fields at the Air-Water Interface: A Surface-Specific Spectroscopic Survey
Joseph C. Shirley, Zi Xuan Ng, Kuo-Yang Chiang, Yuki Nagata, Yair Litman, Arsh S. Hazrah, Mischa Bonn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15422

Reevaluating Anomalous Electric Fields at the Air-Water Interface: A Surface-Specific Spectroscopic Survey
The notion that large electric fields at the air-water interface catalyze spontaneous chemical reactions has sparked significant debate, with far reaching implications for atmospheric chemistry and interfacial reactivity. Using vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy, we test this hypothesis by directly comparing local electric field strengths at the air-water interface and in bulk water. By applying established vibrational frequency-to-field mappings to the OH stretch of interfacial …

A D/H Ratio Consistent with Earth's Water in Halley-type Comet 12P from ALMA HDO Mapping: #comet, 12P/Pons-Brooks, matches Earth’s oceans, strengthening the theory that comets helped make our planet habitable.