Center for Water Research

A Big Win for Water

Major update from our March Watering Hole event! Rob Weinstock’s case against Trump Tower’s unauthorized Chicago River water intake has won. Trump Tower will:

– Stop harming aquatic life
– Comply with Clean Water Act
– Pay $4.8M settlement ($1.5M penalties, $3M restoration)

This record Illinois settlement will fund new fish habitat through Friends of the Chicago River. #CleanWaterAct #ChicagoRiver

New Paper Alert! Ultrasensitive Water Contaminant Detection with Transcription Factor Interfaced Microcantilevers

Congrats to McCormick School of Engineering’s Dilip Kumar Agarwal, Tyler Lucci, Jaeyoung Kirsten Jung, @Angel Green Samuel, Gajendra Shekhawat, Jean-Francois Gaillard, Julius Lucks & Vinayak Dravid for their paper in ACS Publications. Their work on ultrasensitive water contaminant detection is a breakthrough for global water quality monitoring.

New Paper Alert! Enhancing Water Harvesting Efficiency in a Phosphonate Metal–Organic Framework through Controlled Defect Generation

Congrats to Northwestern University Department of Chemistry’s Owen Bailey, Haomiao Xie Jinlei Cui, Courtney Smoljan, Kent Kirlikovali Songi Han & Omar Farha for their paper in ACS Publications. Their work on metal–organic frameworks as a tunable class of crystalline porous materials is an exciting advance for atmospheric water harvesting.