By Davi Jacobs
Roughly 243 million gallons of untreated sewage contaminated the Potomac River after a 60-year-old interceptor pipeline broke in January. Continue reading Aging infrastructure, delayed response tied to Potomac sewage spill
By Greta Easthom As residents in Cape Town, South Africa, prepare to run out of clean water in the coming months, a UMD professor has taken it upon himself to help mitigate the crisis. On Feb. 1, atmospheric and oceanic science professor Dr. Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm presented a seminar at UMD, titled “What would Thomas Malthus tell us in the 21st Century? Experiences in the Water-Energy-Food … Continue reading UMD Professor researches Cape Town water crisis
A middle school presentation is usually a very forgettable experience for most students, but for University of Maryland senior Jon Berry, it planted a seed that he is finally able to grow. Berry remembers sitting in the auditorium as the CEO of Charity Water, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing safe drinking water to developing countries, talked about how many hundreds of millions of people … Continue reading Three Maryland seniors are fighting to end the water crisis
