{"id":170540,"date":"2025-07-16T12:26:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=170540"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:17:11","slug":"technologies-to-clean-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/climate-and-sustainability\/technologies-to-clean-water\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mural Showcasing New Technologies Developed in Mexico to Clean Bodies of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As part of the first call for proposals from the UNAM-Tec Research Consortium, a team of seven scholars from both institutions created a mural titled \u201cSeres de agua STEAM<\/a>\u201d (\u201cWater Beings STEAM\u201d) to highlight innovative technologies designed to help clean up bodies of water.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are currently several techniques aimed at addressing this issue\u2014an increasingly urgent one given that 59.1% of rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and coastal areas monitored in Mexico are contaminated, according to the National Water Quality Monitoring Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project brings some of these cutting-edge technologies to the public through an interactive mural, aiming to raise awareness<\/a> and foster engagement. The physical mural is installed at the Tec de Monterrey campus in Monterrey, near the library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe started from the hypothesis that one reason science doesn\u2019t receive more investment in Mexico is simply that people don\u2019t know what\u2019s out there,\u201d says Patricia Torres<\/a>, an expert in architecture and industrial design at Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey. \u201cWe have excellent scientists. So the idea was to create a mural where people could get to know them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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