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Closed-loop organic pollutant polymerization 闭环有机污染物聚合

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Nature water Pub Date : 2026-02-27 DOI: 10.1038/s44221-026-00597-x

Haoran Wei

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Global freshwater ecosystem mapping to recover living waters 全球淡水生态系统制图以恢复活水

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Nature water Pub Date : 2026-02-27 DOI: 10.1038/s44221-026-00596-y

Jay W. Munyon

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Fundamentals governing membrane engineering 膜工程基本原理

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Nature water Pub Date : 2026-02-23 DOI: 10.1038/s44221-026-00603-2

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A systematic review of Indigenous peoples’ participation in dominant systems of water governance 对土著人民参与主要水管理系统的系统审查

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Nature water Pub Date : 2026-02-18 DOI: 10.1038/s44221-025-00580-y

Laila Kasuri, Sam Watkins, Alexandra M. Collins

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A multiscale perspective for understanding transport mechanisms in desalination and ion-selective membranes 从多尺度角度理解脱盐和离子选择膜的传输机制

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Nature water Pub Date : 2026-02-17 DOI: 10.1038/s44221-026-00585-1

Hanqing Fan, Makenna Parkinson, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mihail Barboiu, Lydéric Bocquet, Bezawit A. Getachew, Qilin Li, Ying Li, Shihong Lin, Chong Liu, Aleksandr Noy, Boya Radha, Dietmar Schwahn, Anthony Szymczyk, Menachem Elimelech

{"title":"A multiscale perspective for understanding transport mechanisms in desalination and ion-selective membranes","authors":"Hanqing Fan, Makenna Parkinson, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mihail Barboiu, Lydéric Bocquet, Bezawit A. Getachew, Qilin Li, Ying Li, Shihong Lin, Chong Liu, Aleksandr Noy, Boya Radha, Dietmar Schwahn, Anthony Szymczyk, Menachem Elimelech","doi":"10.1038/s44221-026-00585-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44221-026-00585-1","url":null,"abstract":"Membranes with nanometre- and subnanometre-scale pores play a vital role in aqueous separations across applications ranging from desalination and wastewater reuse to resource recovery and green hydrogen production. Despite their widespread use, the molecular-level mechanisms that govern water and solute transport in these membranes remain inadequately understood. In this Perspective, we examine advances in membrane and nanochannel transport across macroscopic, microscopic and molecular scales to establish a unified mechanistic framework. We begin by analysing current macroscopic models, highlighting their simplifying assumptions and inherent limitations. We then explore insights from nano- and ångström-scale fluidic studies, revealing unconventional transport phenomena that are not captured by classical continuum theories. Next, we describe how molecular simulations offer atomistic resolution of transport processes, providing mechanistic insight into how water and ions traverse the dynamic, heterogeneous porous networks of real-world, state-of-the-art polymer membranes. Finally, we discuss how to integrate these molecular, microscopic and macroscopic scales to advance theoretical understanding and inform the rational design of next-generation membranes. We conclude by identifying key knowledge gaps and outlining emerging opportunities to bridge scales through advanced characterization techniques and multiscale modelling. This Perspective explores the multiscale transport mechanisms of water and solutes in desalination and ion selective membranes, offering mechanistic insights to guide the design of next-generation membranes and nanoporous systems for applications in water purification, separations, and energy technologies.","PeriodicalId":74252,"journal":{"name":"Nature water","volume":"4 2","pages":"120-137"},"PeriodicalIF":24.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147269058","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}

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Distilling hydrological and land-surface model parameters from physio-geographical properties using text-generating AI 使用文本生成人工智能从自然地理属性中提取水文和陆地表面模型参数

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Nature water Pub Date : 2026-02-13 DOI: 10.1038/s44221-026-00583-3

Moritz Feigl, Mathew Herrnegger, Karsten Schulz

{"title":"Distilling hydrological and land-surface model parameters from physio-geographical properties using text-generating AI","authors":"Moritz Feigl, Mathew Herrnegger, Karsten Schulz","doi":"10.1038/s44221-026-00583-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44221-026-00583-3","url":null,"abstract":"Estimating parameters for distributed hydrological and land-surface models is challenging, particularly in regions with limited observational data. One possible approach uses transfer functions that relate catchment attributes to model parameters, but these functions have so far been largely specified by hand, limiting flexibility and their practical use. Here we show that variational autoencoders can be used as text-generating models to automatically derive interpretable parameter transfer functions. This approach reformulates equation discovery as an optimization problem in a continuous latent space, improving both efficiency and transparency. We evaluate the method in a prediction-in-ungauged-basins setting using the mesoscale Hydrological Model across 162 German basins. The resulting transfer functions lead to improved runoff predictions compared with established regionalization methods and regional long short-term memory networks. In addition, the learned functions are robust across catchments, scalable to large spatial domains and maintain physical interpretability. These results demonstrate a pathway towards more transparent and transferable parameter estimation for large-scale process-based environmental models. Estimating parameters for distributed hydrological models is challenging, especially in regions with limited data. Here the authors employ variational autoencoders to generate optimal parameter transfer functions, enhancing runoff predictions in ungauged basins and advancing the interpretability and scalability of environmental modelling.","PeriodicalId":74252,"journal":{"name":"Nature water","volume":"4 2","pages":"158-168"},"PeriodicalIF":24.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147269059","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}

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Deep learning can facilitate physically interpretable geoscientific modelling 深度学习可以促进物理上可解释的地球科学建模

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Nature water Pub Date : 2026-02-13 DOI: 10.1038/s44221-026-00589-x

Hoshin V. Gupta

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Antibiotic membranes with broad-spectrum antibacterial properties for efficient molecular separations 具有广谱抗菌特性的抗生素膜，用于高效的分子分离

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Nature water Pub Date : 2026-02-13 DOI: 10.1038/s44221-025-00581-x

Yuxin Yuan, Miaomiao Jia, Hai Liu, Da Chen, Wanbin Li

{"title":"Antibiotic membranes with broad-spectrum antibacterial properties for efficient molecular separations","authors":"Yuxin Yuan, Miaomiao Jia, Hai Liu, Da Chen, Wanbin Li","doi":"10.1038/s44221-025-00581-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44221-025-00581-x","url":null,"abstract":"Membrane separation provides an efficient alternative to alleviate water scarcity. However, it remains challenging to mitigate membrane fouling, especially biofouling, and surpass performance trade-off limitation. Here we report an antibiotic membrane with broad-spectrum antibacterial properties for highly permeable and selective water purification. Using the antibiotic kanamycin and trimesoyl chloride as monomers, a polyamide-polyester membrane was constructed through interfacial polymerization. This membrane exhibits competitive separation performance, with a high water permeance of 47.9 l m−2 h−1 bar−1, solute rejection of 99.6% and solute–solute selectivity of ~10,000, outperforming most existing membranes. Moreover, this membrane can effectively inactivate Gram-negative/positive, single/multiple-resistant and disinfectant-resistant bacteria at high concentrations of 3 × 107 colony-forming units per millilitre, showing mortality ratios of 93.6–99.9%. In addition, this membrane maintains long-term antibacterial durability during crossflow filtration for at least 170 h. These concepts and findings offer an alternative route to the design of high-performance and antifouling membranes for water treatment. This study reports an ultrathin kanamycin-based composite membrane that overcomes permeability–selectivity trade-offs while delivering strong fouling resistance and broad-spectrum antibacterial activity for water purification.","PeriodicalId":74252,"journal":{"name":"Nature water","volume":"4 2","pages":"217-227"},"PeriodicalIF":24.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147269050","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}

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A quantitative metric for industrial water use sustainability for environmental, social and governance reporting 环境、社会和治理报告中工业用水可持续性的定量度量

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Nature water Pub Date : 2026-02-10 DOI: 10.1038/s44221-025-00575-9

Yoora Cho, Jay Hyuk Rhee, Yong Sik Ok, William A. Mitch

{"title":"A quantitative metric for industrial water use sustainability for environmental, social and governance reporting","authors":"Yoora Cho, Jay Hyuk Rhee, Yong Sik Ok, William A. Mitch","doi":"10.1038/s44221-025-00575-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44221-025-00575-9","url":null,"abstract":"Despite rapid growth in corporate environmental, social and governance reporting, water use sustainability reporting remains inadequate. Current reporting combines qualitative evaluations of investment pledges to improve sustainability with limited quantitative metrics. Unfortunately, these semi-quantitative metrics differ substantially across reporting entities, and their algorithms may not be publicly available. Their non-uniform and opaque nature raises the potential for greenwashing and hinders identifying cost-effective investments to improve sustainability. To address this deficiency, we propose a transparent and quantitative ‘water sustainability index’ (WSI) as a novel metric. The WSI considers the volume and source water type for watershed withdrawals, the volume and quality of wastewater discharges, the volume of water consumed, and the extent to which facilities reuse water. Weighting factors adjust for operations in stressed watersheds while being tuned to encourage the adoption of sustainable facility improvements. WSI’s quantitative and transparent nature helps corporations identify cost-effective investments to improve water sustainability. Quantifying water sustainability relies on limited and non-uniform metrics that risk greenwashing and hinder effective investment decisions. To address this, the proposed water sustainability index (WSI) offers a transparent, quantitative framework that accounts for water withdrawals, discharges, consumption, reuse and watershed stress to guide cost-effective sustainability improvements.","PeriodicalId":74252,"journal":{"name":"Nature water","volume":"4 2","pages":"138-146"},"PeriodicalIF":24.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147269055","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}

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In situ photo-regenerative phenolic interface for continuous precious metal recovery 用于贵金属连续回收的原位光再生酚醛界面

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Nature water Pub Date : 2026-02-06 DOI: 10.1038/s44221-026-00591-3

Xuemin Chen, Qi-Zhi Zhong, Zeyu Qian, Lam Bang Thanh Nguyen, Jaslyn Ru Ting Chen, Emily Xi Tan, Keteng Wang, Fan Song, Joseph J. Richardson, Yan Lv, Xing Yi Ling, Tianxi Liu

{"title":"In situ photo-regenerative phenolic interface for continuous precious metal recovery","authors":"Xuemin Chen, Qi-Zhi Zhong, Zeyu Qian, Lam Bang Thanh Nguyen, Jaslyn Ru Ting Chen, Emily Xi Tan, Keteng Wang, Fan Song, Joseph J. Richardson, Yan Lv, Xing Yi Ling, Tianxi Liu","doi":"10.1038/s44221-026-00591-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44221-026-00591-3","url":null,"abstract":"Water contamination and the resource scarcity of precious metals pose pressing environmental challenges, making sustainable recovery from secondary sources an attractive alternative to conventional mining. Yet, progress has been hindered by low adsorption capacities and the irreversible loss of active binding sites. Here we introduce a photochemical regeneration strategy that embeds a phenol–quinone redox cycle into a photoactive nanocarbon aerogel, enabling continuous recovery through light-driven electron transfer and proton-coupled redox cycling. This design repeatedly captures and releases precious metals, achieving ultrahigh adsorption (~15,925.5 mg g−1 for Au), greatly extended lifespan (>250 h) and broad applicability across diverse metals (Au, Ag, Pt and Pd) and concentrations (0.6 ppb to 1,000 ppm). Compared with state-of-the-art materials, it achieves over threefold higher capacity and a tenfold longer operational lifetime, while simultaneously reducing electricity and reagent consumption by 88.4% and 97.7%, respectively. Demonstrations in industrial waste (for example, central processing unit leachates) and natural seawater validate this approach as a practical, scalable and sustainable solution for precious metal recovery in real-world circular economy applications. A photochemical regeneration strategy achieves repeated capture and release of diverse precious metals by integrating a phenol–quinone redox cycle into a nanocarbon aerogel scaffold, offering a practical and sustainable pathway for metal recovery.","PeriodicalId":74252,"journal":{"name":"Nature water","volume":"4 3","pages":"360-368"},"PeriodicalIF":24.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570542","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}

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