Lindsay Beevers, Professor of Environmental Engineering at the School of Engineering, has worked on a project with Heriot-Watt University to investigate how people might be affected by droughts in Scotland.
Many areas in Kenya are dependent on boreholes for their water supplies. However, this water is often unfit for plants, animals and people when it is too rich in salts or if it contains an excess of natural contaminants that are damaging to health, like fluoride.
In the next decade, distributed sensor network systems made of insect-scale flying sensors will enable a step change in monitoring natural disasters and remote areas.
Tidal stream power has the potential to deliver 11% of the UK’s current annual electricity and play a significant role in the government’s drive for net-zero, according to new research.