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UNICEF Tap: Do Not Touch Your Phone For 5 Minutes, Save a Life

Mila Luleva — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 07:21:49 +0000

UNICEF Tap project together with Giorgio Armani and S’well challenges you not to touch your phone for five minutes. In return, they will fund one full day supply of drinking water for a child. So, how long can you go without touching your smartphone? A week? A day? An hour? What if I told you that you […]

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Seghal Foundation’s Innovative Recharge Well will Help Developing Countries

Annika Tostengard — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 05:39:06 +0000

In rural India, access to clean drinking water is hard to come by. The country is the second most populated in the world, so that leaves a lot of people without fresh water. Especially since the population will only continue to grow, it’s important to fulfill this basic need. Luckily, the Sehgal Foundation has come up […]

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Solar-Powered System Extracts Potable Water from Air

Mike Sandru — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:16:02 +0000

For many people from urban areas the access to potable water is very low. To combat the water crisis, scientists had to design systems that can help provide clean drinking water from something that is omnipresent.

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