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{"title":"The darker side of magnesium","authors":"Emily S. Bailey","doi":"10.1038/s44221-026-00607-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44221-026-00607-y","url":null,"abstract":"Minerals in drinking water are valued for taste and nutrition, yet their roles during enteric infection remain poorly understood. A mouse model study shows that magnesium can worsen Salmonella-induced inflammation by reshaping gut microbiota.","PeriodicalId":74252,"journal":{"name":"Nature water","volume":"4 3","pages":"267-268"},"PeriodicalIF":24.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating glacial lake resource potential","authors":"Greta Wells","doi":"10.1038/s44221-026-00601-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44221-026-00601-4","url":null,"abstract":"Glacial lakes provide key freshwater resources, though regional supply does not always match water demand. A study now provides a framework to assess the global resource potential of glacial lakes.","PeriodicalId":74252,"journal":{"name":"Nature water","volume":"4 3","pages":"263-264"},"PeriodicalIF":24.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From air to safe water","authors":"Min Jae Park, Dong-Min Lee, Sang-Woo Kim","doi":"10.1038/s44221-026-00599-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44221-026-00599-9","url":null,"abstract":"Atmospheric water harvesting promises decentralized water supplies but has largely prioritized yield over safety. A multifunctional material demonstrates how water harvesting and microbial control can be combined within a single platform.","PeriodicalId":74252,"journal":{"name":"Nature water","volume":"4 3","pages":"273-274"},"PeriodicalIF":24.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reclaiming precious metals from waste under light","authors":"Lun Pan, Zhong Lin Wang","doi":"10.1038/s44221-026-00604-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44221-026-00604-1","url":null,"abstract":"A nanocarbon aerogel embedded with a photochemical phenol–quinone redox pair achieves continuous, high-yield recovery of gold and other precious metal ions from wastewater, offering a scalable and sustainable alternative.","PeriodicalId":74252,"journal":{"name":"Nature water","volume":"4 3","pages":"275-276"},"PeriodicalIF":24.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The paradoxes holding back progress on water security","authors":"Edoardo Borgomeo","doi":"10.1038/s44221-026-00598-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44221-026-00598-w","url":null,"abstract":"Effective water management and policy play a critical role in shaping society’s evolving relationship with water. Yet, the growing impacts of water-related risks worldwide show that many responses remain ineffective, often leading to unintended consequences that undermine stated policy objectives. These contradictions—referred to in the literature as water paradoxes—occur when well-intentioned efforts to manage water backfire. This Review argues that researchers should better characterize these paradoxes, and practitioners must integrate them in decision-making processes and economic evaluations of water policy. Four key paradoxes are examined: value, supply, efficiency and data. For each, relevant examples are highlighted, policy implications are explored and potential approaches for addressing them are suggested. Water management and policy should focus on addressing these paradoxes, rather than pursuing grand visions and missions detached from context. Water management often produces unintended ‘water paradoxes’, where well-intentioned policies backfire, and this Review argues that integrating paradoxes into decision-making will help shift water policy from an emphasis on ‘fixing’ problems towards coping with dynamic, co-evolving human–water systems.","PeriodicalId":74252,"journal":{"name":"Nature water","volume":"4 3","pages":"287-293"},"PeriodicalIF":24.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Water justice needs careful interdisciplinary research","authors":"Maria Rusca, Margreet Zwarteveen, Amitangshu Acharya, Rossella Alba, Melissa Haeffner, Tobias Krueger","doi":"10.1038/s44221-026-00595-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44221-026-00595-z","url":null,"abstract":"Many agree that addressing complex water problems requires interdisciplinary approaches. Yet, entrenched epistemic, methodological and institutional hierarchies often privilege technocratic and positivist framings over critical, reflexive and situated ways of knowing. As a result, interdisciplinary knowledge-making is often hesitant to explicitly engage with political questions and fails to expose or challenge the political, cultural and economic systems driving complex water problems. We argue that making interdisciplinary water knowledge more socially and environmentally transformative hinges on embracing critical social sciences and learning from non-Western epistemologies. This becomes possible when interdisciplinary knowledge-making is treated not as integration but as a weaving together and mediation of epistemic and methodological differences, where no discipline must conform to the definitions, frameworks or methods of others. Through collaborative learning processes that are grounded in care and reciprocity, difference can be harnessed as a transformative force for knowledge-making that supports action towards alternative development pathways and more just water futures. Transformative interdisciplinary water research carefully embraces difference and diverse knowledges, rather than enforcing conformity with conventional scientific methods.","PeriodicalId":74252,"journal":{"name":"Nature water","volume":"4 3","pages":"277-286"},"PeriodicalIF":24.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Programming microbial neighbourhoods","authors":"Qidong Yin, Kai He, Bingjun Liu","doi":"10.1038/s44221-026-00594-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44221-026-00594-0","url":null,"abstract":"Microbial consortia underpin biological wastewater treatment, but controlling cooperative metabolism remains challenging. Mesoscale confinement modulates porin transport and metabolite enrichment, boosting pollutant removal and resource recovery.","PeriodicalId":74252,"journal":{"name":"Nature water","volume":"4 3","pages":"261-262"},"PeriodicalIF":24.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Breaking robust chemical bonds with sunlight","authors":"Yingnan Duan, Zhurui Shen","doi":"10.1038/s44221-026-00602-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44221-026-00602-3","url":null,"abstract":"Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are widely distributed, persistent contaminants in water that pose serious risks to environmental and human health. Now, a sunlight-powered and flow-compatible photocatalytic platform enables the cleavage of robust C–F bonds under mild and scalable conditions, opening up a sustainable route for PFAS decontamination.","PeriodicalId":74252,"journal":{"name":"Nature water","volume":"4 3","pages":"271-272"},"PeriodicalIF":24.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147558658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Steering charge transfer in CuInS2/BiOCl composites to enable sunlight-driven C–F bond cleavage of PFAS in water","authors":"Fuyu Liu, Honglei Li, Zixiang Gao, Qiang Song, Patrick J. Cullen, Ziying Nie, Ye Hong, Yuxuan Zhang, Shilin Yao, Cheng Gu, Fanran Meng, Zhihong Zuo, Runzeng Liu, Zongwei Chen, Dongling Ma, Yongguang Yin, Yong Cai, Xiaoguang Duan, Qingzhe Zhang","doi":"10.1038/s44221-026-00590-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44221-026-00590-4","url":null,"abstract":"Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) resist most remediation technologies because of their exceptionally inert carbon–fluorine bonds. Here we report a visible-light Z-scheme photocatalyst composed of CuInS2 quantum dots anchored on BiOCl nanoplates (CuInS2/BiOCl) that overcomes this barrier. Femtosecond transient absorption, steady-state spectroscopy and theoretical calculations show that an internal electric field steers photo-generated electrons (e−) migrating to CuInS2 and holes (h+) to BiOCl, maximizing their redox potentials for simultaneous carbon–fluorine scission and carbon chain breakage, respectively. Computations revealed that benzene sulfonic acid and carbon fluoride groups on sodium p-perfluorous nonenoxybenzenesulfonate (OBS) are susceptible to electrophilic attack by h+ and nucleophilic attack by e−, respectively. Under ultraviolet irradiation, the heterojunction achieves 75.8% defluorination and 76.8% total organic carbon removal of OBS within 8 h, with universal applicability for efficient degradation of 17 representative PFAS mixtures. Continuous-flow tests driven by natural sunlight achieve >96% OBS removal in 10 h, confirming system scalability. Toxicity assays indicate negligible hazardous effects of the residual. The work reports a sunlight-powered and flow-compatible photocatalytic platform for sustained PFAS decontamination, opening a sustainable route for ‘forever chemical’ abatement in water. A solar-powered methodology facilitated by the rational design of a photocatalyst enables efficient defluorination of structurally diverse per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, thereby establishing a sustainable strategy for the environmental remediation of these recalcitrant contaminants.","PeriodicalId":74252,"journal":{"name":"Nature water","volume":"4 3","pages":"334-347"},"PeriodicalIF":24.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-026-00590-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Discovery of emerging vesicle-associated viruses in wastewater and implications for engineering interventions","authors":"Yuepeng Sun \u0000 (, ), Hongyue Zhang \u0000 (, ), Minghao Han \u0000 (, ), Yiwen Zhu \u0000 (, ), Xiaonan Tang \u0000 (, ), Huiyun Wu \u0000 (, ), Tiong Gim Aw, Nihal Altan-Bonnet, Joan B. Rose, Danmeng Shuai \u0000 (, ), Mahmud Syed, Yun Shen \u0000 (, )","doi":"10.1038/s44221-026-00608-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44221-026-00608-x","url":null,"abstract":"Vesicle-associated viruses, or viral vesicles, are groups of virions packaged within or bound to the surface of small membrane sacs released from host cells. This structure has recently been identified as a common form of certain viral pathogens in host bodies and excreta and is known to enhance viral infectivity, virulence and persistence, raising health concerns if discharged into aquatic environments. However, the presence of vesicle-associated viruses in environments remains unexplored. Here we show that vesicle-associated viruses are abundant and diverse in real wastewater. Using a highly selective immunomagnetic method, we successfully isolated viral vesicles from municipal and hospital wastewater. Quantitative PCR revealed that a substantial fraction of human noroviruses in wastewater were vesicle-associated, accounting for 17% of norovirus GI and 45% of norovirus GII on average. Metagenomic analysis further showed that wastewater vesicles carry diverse bacteriophages as well as human, animal and plant viruses. These findings highlight the need to consider vesicle-associated viruses in wastewater treatment and public health protection. Vesicle-associated viruses are an emerging viral form with implications for infectivity and environmental transmission. Wastewater sampling and selective vesicle isolation show that a substantial share of noroviruses and many other human, animal, plant and bacterial viruses occur in vesicles, underscoring their relevance for wastewater treatment and public health.","PeriodicalId":74252,"journal":{"name":"Nature water","volume":"4 4","pages":"455-465"},"PeriodicalIF":24.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147735098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}