News & Updates
Global Drought Trends and the Imperative for Evaporation Monitoring
Recent news highlights rising water insecurity and the critical need for advanced evaporation monitoring and mitigation across global reservoirs.
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Knowledge Hub
Evergreen deep-dives and current developments in water evaporation and conservation. Every article links back to the underlying science and cites its sources.
News & Updates
Regional Drought Patterns and the Increasing Urgency of Evaporation Management
As drought conditions shift from Colorado to South Carolina, new data highlights the critical role of managing surface evaporation in water security.
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News & Updates
Scaling Evaporation Monitoring Amid Global Water Scarcity
New monitoring partnerships and record reservoir lows underscore the urgent need for accurate evaporation data and effective mitigation strategies.
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News & Updates
Quantifying the unseen: Drought management and evaporation science
Recent drought news highlights the critical need for better evaporation data and advanced mitigation strategies to protect shrinking water supplies.
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News & Updates
Addressing Global Water Shortages Through Evaporation Management
As droughts persist from the Netherlands to North Carolina, understanding how to mitigate evaporation becomes critical for water security.
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News & Updates
Managing Regional Water Scarcity Through Evaporation Control
As drought conditions impact major regions from Washington to Virginia, managing surface evaporation becomes critical for long-term water security.
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News & Updates
Mitigating Reservoir Loss Amidst Growing Drought Conditions
As drought conditions strain water supplies in North Carolina and Virginia, surface evaporation becomes a critical management challenge for reservoirs.
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News & Updates
Addressing Water Scarcity Through Advanced Evaporation Control
As historic droughts strain municipal supplies, new developments in floating solar and modular covers offer ways to protect vital water reservoirs.
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News & Updates
Recent Developments in Water Conservation & Evaporation Research (2026)
An evergreen roundup of the themes shaping evaporation research: a widening vapor-pressure deficit, floating-solar growth, and field studies of covers.
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Methods Science
How Floating Covers Help Control Algae and Improve Water Quality
Why blocking sunlight suppresses algae, the oxygen and gas-exchange trade-offs of full coverage, and how to weigh water-quality benefits against them.
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Methods
Natural & Low-Tech Methods for Small Ponds: Realistic Expectations
Duckweed, lilies, windbreaks, and chemical monolayers for small ponds — what they realistically achieve, their limits, and when low-tech makes sense.
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Methods
Floating Modular Covers Compared: Balls vs Hexagons vs Hybrids — What the Data Shows
A neutral look at shade balls, hexagonal tiles, and hybrid panels: field reductions, wind pile-up, coverage, and manufacturer vs study data.
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Calculation
Penman-Monteith Explained for Reservoir Managers
What the Penman-Monteith equation does, the inputs it needs, why crop-ET over-predicts open water, and its realistic ±10–20% accuracy.
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Science
The Physics of Evaporation from Open Water Bodies
How open water evaporates: vapor-pressure deficit, the six driving factors, the boundary layer, why depth doesn't matter, and night-time loss.
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