Tag: Drinking Water - Page 2
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SEWR, Using Solar Design to Purify Water
A smart idea for using solar power to not only cool buildings but purify water at the same time.
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Miracle Tree Seeds and Sand Produce Inexpensive Clean Water
A substance from the so-called miracle tree can help to purify drinking water sustainably and inexpensively.
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Is it Safe to Drink? New App Guides Travelers in Tap Water Choices
When you're traveling, how do you know if the tap water is safe to drink? Yup, there's an app for that.
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New Water Bottle Serves Up Purified Water in 60 Seconds with UV Light
A new water bottle from CamelBak uses UV-C light to effectively purify water in just 60 seconds.
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Sleek Portable Water Condenser Draws Drinking Water out of Humid Air
A portable version of a mechanical water condenser, which transforms humid air into drinkable water as the day goes by.
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Neti Pots, Home Remedy for Colds or Conduit for Infections?
Two recent deaths were caused by people using regular tap water
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Facing Extreme Drought and A Booming Population, Texans May Soon Be Drinking Treated Sewage Water
Texas cities are forced by drought and rapid population growth to treat and re-use wastewater effluent -- even for drinking.
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Cycle For Water Project Bikes Into 13th Country On Epic Journey for Clean Water
Cycle for Water has entered its 13th country in a trek from the very north of Alaska to the very south of South America.
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Philips Unveils (Sort of) New UV Water Purification Technology InstantTrust
The new water purification technology sounds neat, but also remains a bit mysterious.
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Rainwater Pump Runs On Sunlight
ITT Flow Control recently announced the development of their new, solar powered RainPerfect Water Pump, which takes harvested rainwater in a barrel and pumps it through devices like garden hoses and sprinklers. This way, the
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Is the U.S. Reaching Peak Water?
Circle of Blue has a good piece on our peak water problem, including definitions of the types of peak water:
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Why is Water from a Garden Hose so Delicious?
I posed this (age-old?) question on Twitter and Facebook today. To which one of my Environmental Studies colleagues replied, "the hose gives it taste." Ah, yes, the taste of childhood, of a hot summer day and cooling off
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Removing Arsenic From Water With...Plastic Bottles and Nutrition Supplements?!
When we think of plastic bottles, we usually think of them as a serious problem tied up with our drinking water, not a possible solution for cleaning water for 100 million people. But researchers have found that by
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Pepsi Partners With Nature Conservancy to Assess Their Footprint in Water-Stressed Areas
Pepsi does not have the greatest track record when it comes to social responsibility, particularly with regard to its use of water in countries already stressed for water resources. So while it's too soon to tell if this is a
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One Woman Working To Bring Safe Water to Millions With A Simple Barrel (Video)
We've seen a variety of designs for carrying water over the years -- from the Hippo Roller to the Water Cycle. But this design by Cynthia Koenig, called the Wello WaterWheel, may be one of the most simple. Essentially a
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Dhaka, Bangladesh to Become Next City to Require Rainwater Harvesting
The demand for water in Dhaka, Bangladesh is 2.4 billion liters a day, but the city can only produce 2.1 billion liters, according to the country's Water Supply
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Water Filtration Meets Fine Art at Venice Biennale
Ayşe Erkmen's 'Plan B.' Photo: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV). Water-treatment plants might not seem to have much aesthetic potential. But Turkish sculptor Ayşe Erkmen is making a splash at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the
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Little Girl's Untimely Death Sparks Donations of More Than $376,000 for Clean Water
A nine-year-old girl created a MyCharityWater campaign for her birthday in June, hoping to raise $300 to provide clean water for those in need. Tragically, she was killed in a car accident. The outpouring of grief and
