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Can We Reuse Polluted Water? Yes, Add Bacteria

July 31, 2019

Susannah Tringe and James Rosenblum at a hydraulic fracking site in Colorado. (Credit: James Rosenblum)
Susannah Tringe and James Rosenblum at a hydraulic fracking site in Colorado. (Credit: James Rosenblum/Colorado School of Mines)

Berkeley Lab and Colorado School of Mines scientists are collaborating on the development of a microbe-based system that could remove toxic compounds from wastewater produced by the oil and gas industries so it can be reused in other water-intensive sectors such as agriculture and energy production. Leading the Berkeley Lab half of the partnership are Susannah Tringe, a microbial genomics researcher in the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology (EGSB) Division, and Romy Chakraborty, a research scientist in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) who holds a secondary appointment in EGSB. Shwetha Acharya, postdoctoral scholar at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), and William Stringfellow, staff engineer in EESA, are also members of the team.

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