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Existence and Uniqueness of Physically Correct Hydraulic States in Water Distribution Systems -- A theoretical analysis on the solvability of non-linear systems of equations in the context of water distribution systems
Janine Strotherm, Julian Rolfes, Barbara Hammer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17270…

Existence and Uniqueness of Physically Correct Hydraulic States in Water Distribution Systems -- A theoretical analysis on the solvability of non-linear systems of equations in the context of water distribution systems
Planning and extension of water distribution systems (WDSs) plays a key role in the development of smart cities, driven by challenges such as urbanization and climate change. In this context, the correct estimation of physically correct hydraulic states, i.e., pressure heads, water demands and water flows, is of high interest. Hydraulic emulators such as EPANET or more recently, physic-informed surrogate models are used to solve this task. They require a subset of observed states, such as heads…

England’s rivers ‘under threat’ as water extraction surges to record levels https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/20/england-rivers-water-extraction-record-levels

HDO Ice Detected toward an Isolated Low-mass #Protostar with JWST: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/addb45 -> Detection of semi-heavy water ice around young sunlike star: https://www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/detection-of-semi-heavy-water-ice-around-young-sunlike-star-4555

The shared braincell was late to work :neocat_woozy:

Welp, it's frozen water bottle time again!
I use an insulated Camelbak half-filled with water with a full dose of Skratch powder. Then freeze it. Before leaving for my ride, I top it with water. Start using it half-way through. Stays cold, and level of salts increases. Perfect!

Water Lillies. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. June, 2025. #huntingtonlibrary #waterlillies #flowers

Resist the surface field: the H-bond network decides if water aligns at metal electrodes
Mohammed Bin Jassar, Wei-tao Liu, Simone Pezzotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18467

Resist the surface field: the H-bond network decides if water aligns at metal electrodes
At an electrode, water molecules align to the surface field upon voltage application. This initiates important electrochemical reactions, e.g., hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions. Recently developed non-linear optical techniques challenge the traditional picture by quantifying a lack of water alignment at metal electrodes. We here provide theoretical and experimental evidences for the existence of a driving force that opposes water alignment to the surface field. Such driving force origina…

Inside Amazon's Indiana data center complex: built for Anthropic with plans for ~30 centers, consuming 2.2GW of power and millions of gallons of water per year (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/technology/amazon-ai-data-centers.html

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

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

Terahertz channel performance under dynamic water surface reflections
Yapeng Ge, Jiacheng Liu, Jiayuan Cui, Mingxia Zhang, Wenbo Liu, Peian Li, Houjun Sun, Jianjun Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18358

Terahertz channel performance under dynamic water surface reflections
As the terahertz (THz) band emerges as a pivotal technology for next-generation wireless communications, accurate channel modeling in dynamic environments becomes increasingly critical, particularly for scenarios involving reflective interactions with water surfaces. This article presents comprehensive experimental and theoretical investigations into THz channel (120-320 GHz) performance under dynamic water surface reflections. By developing and validating a modified dual-scale scattering model…

Little one has reached an interesting stage of personal hygiene. She wants to shower instead of taking baths, but can't do it fully by herself.
So i have to poke my head and arms around the shower curtain, soap up her head, rinse her hair without getting water in her eyes, and try not to get myself completely drenched in the process or fling too much water around the bathroom.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pressyes:
🎵 Blue Crystal Water
#NowPlaying #Pressyes
https://pressyes.bandcamp.com/track/blue-crystal-water
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ZAuzWS5Yc8EcXSba0JzBh

You travel 15 hrs to arrive on the eve of a 6am event.
5am: no running water. So, can't go to that event.
Do you hope this is a building problem (misery for many) and addressed soon. Or assume it's just your rental?
And oh, you're now 36hrs fasting and you can only break fast at the event. #life

Our partners at the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory have found cyanobacteria microcystin toxins in the western basin of Lake Erie April 28, far earlier this year than ever before. The season starts earlier and lasts longer due to #ClimateChange.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/trump-children-flores-settlement-agreement

The role of dendritic spines in water exchange measurements with diffusion MRI: Time-Dependent Single Diffusion Encoding MRI
Kadir \c{S}im\c{s}ek, Arthur Chakwizira, Markus Nilsson, Marco Palombo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18229

The role of dendritic spines in water exchange measurements with diffusion MRI: Time-Dependent Single Diffusion Encoding MRI
Time-dependent diffusion MRI (dMRI) with single diffusion encoding (SDE) probes water dynamics in biological tissues, but signal interpretation depends on microstructure. While prior work focused on restricted/hindered diffusion and membrane permeation, diffusion-mediated exchange between dendritic shafts and spines in gray matter (GM) remains understudied. We hypothesize that impermeable spiny dendrites produce time-dependent SDE signals mimicking permeative exchange and investigate how spine …

Growth rate and energy dissipation in wind-forced breaking waves
Nicol\`o Scapin, Jiarong Wu, J. Thomas Farrar, Bertrand Chapron, St\'ephane Popinet, Luc Deike
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17802

Growth rate and energy dissipation in wind-forced breaking waves
We investigate the energy growth and dissipation of wind-forced breaking waves using direct numerical simulations of the coupled air-water Navier-Stokes equations. We vary the wind friction velocity over the wave speed $u_\ast/c$ up to 1. A turbulent wind boundary layer drives the growth of a pre-existing narrowband wave field until it breaks and transfers energy into the water column. Under sustained wind forcing, the wave field then resumes growth. We separately analyze energy transfers durin…

Chelation of the mercury ions by polyethyleneimine: Atomistic molecular dynamics study
Halyna Butovych, Jaroslav Ilnytskyi, Erkki Lahderanta, Taras Patsahan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18835

Chelation of the mercury ions by polyethyleneimine: Atomistic molecular dynamics study
Contamination of water by heavy metal ions represents a significant environmental concern. Among various remediation methods, chelation has proven to be an effective technique in water treatment processes. This study investigates the chelating properties of linear polyethyleneimine (PEI) and its complexation with divalent mercury ions (Hg2+) in aqueous solution. Atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were carried out using the OPLS/AA force field to examine the microscopic structure of P…

MIT’s Window-Sized Device Pulls Drinking Water From Thin Air, Even in the Desert
https://scitechdaily.com/mits-window-sized-device-pulls-drinking-water-from-thin-air-even-in-the-desert/

Het zoute water rukt op en dat vraagt om pijnlijke keuzes. ‘Het begint te knellen’ | Trouw
https://www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid-economie/het-zoute-water-rukt-op-en-dat-vraagt-om-pijnlijke-keuzes-het-b…

"Air travel’s ‘holy grail’: Jet fuel made from CO2 and water prepares for take-off"
#Aviation #Aeroplanes
…

E-SAF jet fuel - made from CO2 and water - prepares for take-off
Synthetic jet fuel companies think they have the answer to tackling aviation emissions despite cost concerns

Hell yeaahh! My wife got this #godzilla bad boy from a yard sale!

Have you ever looked at clouds or water and tried to understand the complex system of swirls and ribbons?
To take it a step further: Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, and its moons still pose puzzles of this kind, which we hope to unravel with the instruments aboard the JUICE spacecraft on its journey there.
Here's a hands-on experiment that explains how the gas giant's cloud swirls are formed.
@…

Sonnet 135 - CXXXV
Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will,
And Will to boot, and Will in over-plus;
More than enough am I that vexed thee still,
To thy sweet will making addition thus.
Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,
Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?
Shall will in others seem right gracious,
And in my will no fair acceptance shine?
The sea, all water, yet receives rain still,
And in abundance addeth to his…

View on the low lands, from the water tower near the village of Werkhoven, the Netherlands.

A third-order finite volume semi-implicit method for the Shallow Water-Exner model
Enrique D. Fernandez-Nieto, Jose Garres-Diaz, Emanuele Macca, Giovanni Russo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16287

A third-order finite volume semi-implicit method for the Shallow Water-Exner model
In this work, third-order semi-implicit schemes on staggered meshes for the shallow water and Saint-Venant-Exner systems are presented. They are based on a third-order extension of the technique introduced in Cassulli \& Cheng [1]. The stability conditions for these schemes depend on the velocity and not on the celerity, allowing us to reduce computational efforts, especially in subcritical flow simulations, which is the regime we are mainly interested in. The main novelty consists in the third…

i just learned that squid maintain buoyancy not by having a gas-filled sac, but... by having a bunch of water in the body where instead of heavy metal ions they put lighter ammonium ions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid#Buoyancy
this is such a wild thing to do for any animal!! cou…

Squid - Wikipedia

ARCH-COMP25 Category Report: Stochastic Models
Alessandro Abate, Omid Akbarzadeh, Henk A. P. Blom, Sofie Haesaert, Sina Hassani, Abolfazl Lavaei, Frederik Baymler Mathiesen, Rahul Misra, Amy Nejati, Mathis Niehage, Fie {\O}rum, Anne Remke, Behrad Samari, Ruohan Wang, Rafal Wisniewski, Ben Wooding, Mahdieh Zaker
https://arxiv.org…

ARCH-COMP25 Category Report: Stochastic Models
This report is concerned with a friendly competition for formal verification and policy synthesis of stochastic models. The main goal of the report is to introduce new benchmarks and their properties within this category and recommend next steps toward next year's edition of the competition. In particular, this report introduces three recently developed software tools, a new water distribution network benchmark, and a collection of simplified benchmarks intended to facilitate further comparison…

De NRC stelt twee vragen en ik geef daar het bij mij passende antwoord op:
Wat gaat er gebeuren?
Een groot, extreem overprikkelend feestje voor stadse neurotypicals.
Wat voor hittemaatregelen zijn er bedacht?
Ik blijf binnen, thuis met de olluiken dicht en drink veel water terwijl de warmtepomp water van 18,5 °C door het huis pompt.

Tell me how old the hotel treadmills are without telling me! 🤣
(But the treadmills of course worked fine… because equipment can long outlast whatever connectors happen to be popular at a given time..)

I remember BIll Stowe clashing with ag-lobbyists, where the lobbyists claimed they were doing exactly the right things to protect water in Iowa, and that further legislation and lawsuits were not necessary.
Now, in 2025, Central Iowans must curtail water usage, not because there isn't enough water, but because the source water is too contaminated with farm runoff nitrates.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
PJ Harvey:
🎵 Down By The Water
#PJHarvey
https://leaetherstrip.bandcamp.com/track/down-by-the-water-pj-harvey-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/48mJX8glOrQkrSdVBjc0Wb

Took a walk along the Venetian Waterway Park this morning. Noticed what I first thought was a bicycle track leading from the water. Look closely.
#florida

Optimizing Periodic Operations for Efficient Inland Waterway Lock Management
Julian Golak, Alexander Grigoriev, Freija van Lent, Tom van der Zanden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17743

Optimizing Periodic Operations for Efficient Inland Waterway Lock Management
In inland waterways, the efficient management of water lock operations impacts the level of congestion and the resulting uncertainty in inland waterway transportation. To achieve reliable and efficient traffic, schedules should be easy to understand and implement, reducing the likelihood of errors. The simplest schedules follow periodic patterns, reducing complexity and facilitating predictable management. Since vessels do not arrive in perfectly regular intervals, periodic schedules may lead t…

Near-record #nitrate levels in Des Moines, #Iowa-area rivers threaten drinking #water... "But the officials declined to explain what they believe has caused the surge in nitrate levels, which has historically been …

River pollution threatens Des Moines, Iowa's drinking water
Local officials are warning more than half a million Iowans in the state's capital city and suburbs that near-record level of pollutants in its rivers could make drinking water dangerous if immediate steps are not taken to reduce demand. But the officials are declining to explain what they believe has caused the surge in nitrate levels, which has historically been tied to runoff from farmland draining into Des Moines-area rivers. The water utility is issuing a first-ever ban on lawn watering fo…

Court Rules EPA Failed to Properly Consider, Update Water Pollution Standards For Oil Refineries, Plastics Plants https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/…

Court Rules EPA Failed to Properly Consider, Update Water Pollution Standards For Oil Refineries, Plastics Plants
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency acted unlawfully in declining to update water pollution control standards for seven major industries. The industries include petroleum refineries, inorganic and organic chemical manufacturers, and factories that manufacture plastics, fertilizer, pesticides and nonferrous metals. The court agreed with conservation groups that the Clean Water Act requires the EPA to consider technological advancements in cont…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Maajo feat. Waina:
🎵 Water of Life
#Maajo #Waina
https://maajo.bandcamp.com/track/water-of-life-feat-waina
https://open.spotify.com/track/2kT05IUIBA0xsDfxphTiV1

1,800-year-old Roman Water Pipe Made from Hollow Tree Trunks Found Under a Street in Belgium https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/1800-year-old-roman-water-pipe-made-from-hollow-tree-trunks-found-under-a-street-in-b…

1,800-year-old Roman Water Pipe Made from Hollow Tree Trunks Found Under a Street in Belgium
The wooden tree-trunk piping is just another method that Roman plumbers must have used to handle hydro-logistics in their settlements.

Geomorphological Evidence of Near-Surface Ice at Candidate Landing Sites in Northern Amazonis Planitia, Mars: #Mars: https://olemiss.edu/news/2025/06/researchers-take-one-small-step-toward-planning-life-on-mars/index.html - near-surface water ice could provide resources for human exploration on the Red Planet.

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Did you know some #copepods can "porpoise" out of the water, even though they are only mm sized? The forces required for them to break the significant surface tension of the water is enormous, 10x larger than other animals scaled to size. This requires swim…

Please help @… if you can. Her and her family are living through hell at the hands of israel.
#israel #genocide

Electrolyzers, machines that split water and separate hydrogen from oxygen, are emerging as the new battleground in green technology between the EU and China.
Can the EU stay competitive?
https://www.dw.com/en/can-the-eu-keep-up-wit…

Can the EU keep up with China in hydrogen technology? – DW – 06/11/2025
Electroysers, machines that split water and separate hydrogen from oxygen, are emerging as the new battleground in green technology between the EU and China. How can the EU stay competive?

Laboratory Investigation of CO2-Driven Enhancement of Radiolytic H2O2 on Europa and Other Icy Moons
Bereket D. Mamo, Ujjwal Raut, Ben D. Teolis, Trevor P. Erwin, Richard J. Cartwright, Silvia Protopapa, Kurt D. Retherford, Tom A. Nordheim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15819

Laboratory Investigation of CO2-Driven Enhancement of Radiolytic H2O2 on Europa and Other Icy Moons
Observations of Europa's leading hemisphere reveal elevated H2O2 in the warmer, low latitude chaos terrains compared to the colder, polar regions. This distribution disagrees with prior laboratory radiolysis studies of pure water ice, which show higher H2O2 yields at colder temperatures. The regions with higher peroxide abundance, Tara and Powys Regiones, also present increased amounts of CO2, possibly sourced from Europa's interior. To investigate whether CO2 influences radiolysis of water ice…

Tonight’s sunset

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公园探险 🏞️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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HAWC Performance Enhanced by Machine Learning in Gamma-Hadron Separation
R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andr\'es, E. Anita-Rangel, M. Araya, J. C. Arteaga-Vel\'azquez, D. Avila Rojas, H. A. Ayala Solares, R. Babu, P. Bangale, E. Belmont-Moreno, A. Bernal, T. Capistr\'an, A. Carrami\~nana, F. Carre\'on, S. Casanova, U. Cotti, E. De la Fuente, D. Depaoli, P. Desiati, N. Di Lalla, R. Diaz Hernandez, M. A. DuVernois, J. C. D\'iaz-V\'elez, K. Engel, T. Ergin, C. Espinoza,…

HAWC Performance Enhanced by Machine Learning in Gamma-Hadron Separation
Improving gamma-hadron separation is one of the most effective ways to enhance the performance of ground-based gamma-ray observatories. With over a decade of continuous operation, the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory has contributed significantly to high-energy astrophysics. To further leverage its rich dataset, we introduce a machine learning approach for gamma-hadron separation. A Multilayer Perceptron shows the best performance, surpassing traditional and other Machine Learni…

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

New insight into Texas family detention reveals adults fighting kids for clean water (Valerie Gonzalez/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/migrants-child-supervision-texas-e4994b2b6786717ea79a4be230e476bf
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p45#a250621p45

"Revealed: Water firms dump sewage 2,380 times at iconic Blue Flag beaches"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Sewage #Pollution

Revealed: Water firms dump sewage 2,380 times at iconic Blue Flag beaches
There have also been more 1,000 sewage spills around all UK beaches over the past few days as Britons head to the sea this weekend to enjoy the hot weather

“I just couldn’t cut people. And that’s what we should have done,” Tomelden says of the minimum-wage-related pressures that ultimately forced his hand to close the restaurant on Sunday. “I thought things would change.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/202…

It would be very interesting to see the RAMS and risk assessment for installing the Butts exhibition at the #WhitechapelGallery.
#Registrar
#RiskAssessment

Data center water use is a really interesting question. It seems like a space with a lot of room for technological improvement, where we've simply been optimizing for the wrong thing so far: we've been minimizing energy use, but there are a lot of opportunities for being more careful about water consumption.
I don't think much of this is down to "AI" specifically. If we outlawed all NNs bigger than 1B, I don't think the number of data centers would stop growin…

"Let’s extend to ourselves and to others the invitation of a Christianity that seeks light, rests in darkness, remains deeply rooted in justice, and flourishes in our own individual ways of nurturing it." —Karis Slattery '20 M.Div. in her new Reflections piece, "Don’t Water Fake Plants"

FEWSim: A Visual Analytic Framework for Exploring the Nexus of Food-Energy-Water Simulations
Fan Lei, David A. Sampson, Jiayi Hong, Yuxin Ma, Giuseppe Mascaro, Dave White, Rimjhim Agarwal, Ross Maciejewski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14056

FEWSim: A Visual Analytic Framework for Exploring the Nexus of Food-Energy-Water Simulations
The interdependencies of food, energy, and water (FEW) systems create a nexus opportunity to explore the strengths and vulnerabilities of individual and cross-sector interactions within FEW systems. However, the variables quantifying nexus interactions are hard to observe, which hinders the cross-sector analysis. To overcome such challenges, we present FEWSim, a visual analytics framework designed to support domain experts in exploring and interpreting simulation results from a coupled FEW mode…

Pix2Geomodel: A Next-Generation Reservoir Geomodeling with Property-to-Property Translation
Abdulrahman Al-Fakih, Ardiansyah Koeshidayatullah, Nabil A. Saraih, Tapan Mukerji, Rayan Kanfar, Abdulmohsen Alali, SanLinn I. Kaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17747

Pix2Geomodel: A Next-Generation Reservoir Geomodeling with Property-to-Property Translation
Accurate geological modeling is critical for reservoir characterization, yet traditional methods struggle with complex subsurface heterogeneity, and they have problems with conditioning to observed data. This study introduces Pix2Geomodel, a novel conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) framework based on Pix2Pix, designed to predict reservoir properties (facies, porosity, permeability, and water saturation) from the Rotliegend reservoir of the Groningen gas field. Utilizing a 7.6 mil…

As world heats up, U.N. cools itself the cool way: with water
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/05/13/climate-change/un-water-cooling-pipes/
🆓

As world heats up, U.N. cools itself the cool way — with water
As more and more people want to stay cool in a planet that is steadily heating up, energy experts point to this kind of water-based system as a good alternative.

Elon should not go back to Tesla. Tesla should merge with Rivian and give the CEO position to RJ Scaringe with Musk out of any role. Tesla is where Apple was prior to the acquisition of NeXT, dead in the water without a brain transplant.

Celebrating May 17th with an ocean dip
🥶😅
#17mai

Took a walk along the Venetian Waterway Park this morning. Noticed what I first thought was a bicycle track leading from the water. Look closely.
#florida

Implicit neural representations for accurate estimation of the standard model of white matter
Tom Hendriks, Gerrit Arends, Edwin Versteeg, Anna Vilanova, Maxime Chamberland, Chantal M. W. Tax
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15762

Implicit neural representations for accurate estimation of the standard model of white matter
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) enables non-invasive investigation of tissue microstructure. The Standard Model (SM) of white matter aims to disentangle dMRI signal contributions from intra- and extra-axonal water compartments. However, due to the model its high-dimensional nature, extensive acquisition protocols with multiple b-values and diffusion tensor shapes are typically required to mitigate parameter degeneracies. Even then, accurate estimation remains challenging due to nois…

Hello all!
I wasn't able to process the photos of my recent trips, but I wanted to share this one from last year.
I went there on a hot day to "take a couple of photos". In the end I spent 3h just at this waterfall searching for the right composition & interpretation, the right motive etc.
I love the result, but I'm surprised how much time I spent there to get it.

First salt water swim of the year this evening, and it was very , very nice. Why don't I do this more often?

Sam Altman claims an "average" ChatGPT query uses about 0.34 watt-hours and about 0.000085 gallons of water, or "roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685045/sam-altman-average-cha…

Sam Altman claims an average ChatGPT query uses ‘roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon’ of water
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in a blog post published Tuesday, says an average ChatGPT query uses about 0.000085 gallons of water, or “roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon.”

' “How do we afford public ownership?” You squeeze the water companies hard. If they’re no longer making a profit, their so-called “market value” (based on ripping you off) will fall. As they collapse, like Thames Water, they can be taken into public ownership for a song, and their debt can be refinanced more cheaply in the public sector – with the savings going to reduce bills, invest in stopping sewage, or both." '

Bring Thames Water into public ownership | We Own It

Longtime Monitoring of TeV Radio Galaxies with HAWC
R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, E. Anita-Rangel, J. C. Arteaga-Vel\'azquez, D. Avila Rojas, H. A. Ayala Solares, R. Babu, P. Bangale, E. Belmont-Moreno, A. Bernal, K. S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistr\'an, A. Carrami\~nana, F. Carre\'on, S. Casanova, U. Cotti, J. Cotzomi, S. Couti\~no de Le\'on, E. De la Fuente, D. Depaoli, P. Desiati, N. Di Lalla, R. Diaz Hernandez, M. A. DuVernois, J. C. D\'iaz-V\'elez, K. Engel, T. Ergin…

Longtime Monitoring of TeV Radio Galaxies with HAWC
We present the monitoring of the TeV-emitting radio galaxies M87, NGC~1275, 3C~264, and IC~310 with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) over a period of approximately $7.5$ years. The analysis includes light curves at daily, weekly and monthly time scales for the four sources. We report the detection of gamma-ray emission from M87 with a significance exceeding 5$σ$. Due to its significant detection, this work reports the integrated TeV spectrum of M87 from the longest temporal…

Predictive control of wastewater treatment plants as energy-autonomous water resource recovery facilities
Otacilio B. L. Neto, Michela Mulas, Iiro Harjunkoski, Francesco Corona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10490

Predictive control of wastewater treatment plants as energy-autonomous water resource recovery facilities
This work proposes an automatic control solution for the operation of conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) as energy-autonomous water resource recovery facilities. We first conceptualize a classification of the quality of treated water for three resource recovery applications (environmental, industrial, and agricultural water reuse). We then present an output-feedback model predictive controller (Output MPC) that operates a plant to produce water of specific quality class, while als…

I went downstairs, filled the kettle, waited for it boil, and poured the water into my mug.
I then popped back upstairs for 5 minutes to let it brew. Went back down to the kitchen, gave it a stir. "Hmm this looks a bit weak".
I'd only forgotten to put a bloody tea bag in the mug at the start of the exercise, hadn't I.
Obviously I have now contacted the government and arranged to hand in my British passport.
#Tea #FAIL

"AI is gobbling up water it cannot replace – I’m working on a solution"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI is gobbling up water it cannot replace – I’m working on a solution
AI is turning up the heat on datacentres, causing their water use to soar.

2D MXene-Based Photocatalysts for Efficient Water Splitting and Hydrogen Evolution: A brief review
C. B. Subba, Prasad Mattipally, J. Sivakumar, A. Laref, A. Yvaz, D. P. Rai, Z. Pachuau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13411

2D MXene-Based Photocatalysts for Efficient Water Splitting and Hydrogen Evolution: A brief review
Photocatalytic water splitting offers a viable and sustainable method for hydrogen production. MXenes, a class of 2D transition-metal carbides/nitrides, have emerged as potential photocatalysts and co-catalysts due to their tunable electronic properties, high conductivity, and surface functionality. This review explores recent advances in MXene-based photocatalysts for hydrogen production, discussing their synthesis, electronic structures, and photocatalytic mechanisms. The key challenges, incl…

F*ck me my water bill has gone up by 37.4% in the last 14 months. How did that happen? And I don’t get to switch providers, I just have to suck it up. WTaF?
#water #utilities #publicutilities

I remember vividly when the Fediverse immediately used the fake news about an alleged #Israel​i airstrike on al-Ahli Arab Hospital on 17 October 2023 as evidence for an ongoing genocide.
Wondering what the conclusion from the #Iran​ian airstrike on

Iranian missile strikes hit Israeli hospital
Israel is targeted by new Iranian missile strikes with several hits, among them, the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba. Israel earlier reportedly attacked a key heavy-water research reactor in Khondab. DW has more.

This weekend I did the free water dives (5) for the Advanced Open Water Diver course. The weather was very nice (maybe a bit too hot & sunny) and the diving was fun (even though my dry suit was not very dry two times...)

Moment-enhanced shallow water equations for non-slip boundary conditions
Shiping Zhou, Juntao Huang, Andrew J. Christlieb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14785 …

Moment-enhanced shallow water equations for non-slip boundary conditions
The shallow water equations often assume a constant velocity profile along the vertical axis. However, this assumption does not hold in many practical applications. To better approximate the vertical velocity distribution, models such as the shallow water moment expansion models have been proposed. Nevertheless, under non-slip bottom boundary conditions, both the standard shallow water equation and its moment-enhanced models struggle to accurately capture the vertical velocity profile due to th…

The North American equivalent of "... and Germany wins on penalties" is "... a team from a place where water never freezes wins the Stanley Cup."

Development of a Smart Autonomous Irrigation System Using Iot and AI
Yunus Emre Kunt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11835 https://arxiv.o…

Development of a Smart Autonomous Irrigation System Using Iot and AI
Agricultural irrigation ensures that the water required for plant growth is delivered to the soil in a controlled manner. However, uncontrolled management can lead to water waste while reducing agricultural productivity. Drip irrigation systems, which have been one of the most efficient methods since the 1970s, are modernised with IoT and artificial intelligence in this study, aiming to both increase efficiency and prevent water waste. The developed system is designed to be applicable to differ…

Spirit Lake Nation to go without drinkable tap water for 2 weeks: “Excessive amounts of manganese in Spirit Lake Nation water will leave residents without drinkable tap water for roughly two weeks, tribal leaders said. Water collected from the tribe’s water treatment plant on May 13 and 20 showed elevated levels of the metal" #geology

Spirit Lake Nation to go without drinkable tap water for 2 weeks
Tribal leaders are working to reduce elevated levels of manganese while handing out cases of bottled water, according to a news release.

Indian shot flowers with water droplets. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. July, 2024. #laarboretum #flowers #flowerphotography

Spaniards turn water pistols on visitors in Barcelona and Mallorca to protest mass tourism | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/spaniards-turn-water-pistols-on-visitors-in-barcelona-and-mallorca-to-protest-mass-tourism/

From the Water-Wasteful ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ Comes Pipelines Built in Nepal So Kids Don’t Have to Haul it From Afar https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/from-the-water-wasting-ice-bucket-challenge-comes-pipelines-built-in-nepal/…

From the Water-Wasteful ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ Comes Pipelines Built in Nepal So Kids Don’t Have to Haul it From Afar
A Scotsman transformed the spirit of the Ice Bucket Challenge into a truly impactful program—new water pipelines for remote Nepal villages.

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
tUnE-yArDs:
🎵 Water Fountain
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Elon should not go back to Tesla. Tesla should merge with Rivian and give the CEO position to RJ Scaringe with Musk out of any role. Tesla is where Apple was prior to the acquisition of NeXT, dead in the water without a brain transplant.

Bonuses banned for 10 English water bosses over sewage pollution https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/05/bonuses-banned-for-10-english-water-bosses-over-sewage-pollution

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

Devitrification and Melting Dynamics in Vapor Deposited Water Ice
Fabio Leoni, Fausto Martelli, John Russo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15433 https://…

Devitrification and Melting Dynamics in Vapor Deposited Water Ice
The equilibration dynamics of ultrastable glasses subjected to heating protocols has attracted recent experimental and theoretical interest. With simulations of the mW water model, we investigate the devitrification and melting dynamics of both conventional quenched (QG) and vapor deposited (DG) amorphous ices under controlled heating ramps. By developing an algorithm to reconstruct hydrogen-bond networks, we show that bond ring statistics correlates with the structural stability of the glasses…

Israel's military warns people to evacuate the area around Iran's Arak heavy water reactor (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/israel-iran-attacks-nuclear-news-06-19-2025-b508817b78ed8d2f6067c1516215cf94
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p65#a250619p65

Collective effects of neighbouring melting ice objects
Sof\'ia Angriman, Detlef Lohse, Roberto Verzicco, Sander G. Huisman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16926

Collective effects of neighbouring melting ice objects
We present a study on the melting dynamics of neighbouring ice bodies by means of idealised simulations, focusing on collective effects. Two vertically aligned, square-shaped, and equally sized ice objects (size on the order of centimetres) are immersed in quiescent fresh water at a temperature of 20 °C. By performing two-dimensional direct numerical simulations, and using the phase-field method to model the phase change, the collective melting of these objects is studied. While the melting of…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #The6MusicPlaylist
Water From Your Eyes:
🎵 Life Signs
#WaterFromYourEyes
https://waterfromyoureyes.bandcamp.com/track/life-signs
https://open.spotify.com/track/6cw1KW5j5xuG6nu7i0C1xM

Blinds and curtains are drawn. Fans are switched on. I'm wearing shorts. The cat has a bowl of water with ice cubes added. I think we're as prepared as possible for today's heatpocalypse.
#UKweather #ItsGrimUpNorth

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城市自然 II 🏡
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buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Republicans Want the EPA to Test the Water for Abortion Pills
https://jessica.substack.com/p/republicans-want-the-epa-to-test

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Beach Boys:
🎵 Cool, Cool Water (version 2)
#TheBeachBoys
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/cool-cool-water
https://open.spotify.com/track/57jNhiCn0gY12nUmXkcnOI

Hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study finds https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-03-28/alfalfa-hay-beef-water-colorado-river

Hay consumes a vast share of the Colorado River's water
Much of the Colorado River's water is used for agriculture. A new study shows 46% of the water that is diverted is used to grow hay to feed cattle.

Nano-silica based Aqueous Colloidal Gels as Eco-friendly Thixotropic Lubricant
Arun Kumar, Vivek Kumar, Yogesh M. Joshi, Manjesh K. Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16249

Nano-silica based Aqueous Colloidal Gels as Eco-friendly Thixotropic Lubricant
The environmental risks posed by traditional oil and grease-based lubricants can be significantly mitigated by adopting water-based alternatives engineered with superior rheological performance. In this work, we present a fundamentally new and environmentally sustainable aqueous thixotropic colloidal gel of silica nanoparticles formed in the presence of NaCl. We conducted a systematic and detailed investigation of their rheological and tribological characteristics. The tribological performance …

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城市自然 II 🏡
📷 Pentax MX
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"Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water fined £250,000 for sewage pollution"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales #Pollution

England's water crisis needs more than just new reservoirs—here's what will help #England

England's water crisis needs more than just new reservoirs—here's what will help
England is facing a water crisis. The UK government has just announced plans to fast-track two massive reservoir projects in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, warning that without them, we could run out of drinking water by the mid-2030s. But as a hydrologist who studies Britain's often erratic weather patterns, I believe these reservoirs alone won't solve our water problems.

"Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles"
#Glass #Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics

Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles
Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles, according to a surprising study released by France's food safety agency Friday.

"Pumping Water Onto Sea Ice Could Halt its Loss in the Arctic—Nonprofit Proves ‘Naive’ Idea Plausible"
#Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange

Pumping Water Onto Sea Ice Could Halt Ice Loss in the Arctic—Nonprofit Proves 'Naive' Idea Plausible
The craziness of the whole endeavor is only matched by the urgency with which they believe something must be done to address sea ice loss.