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How Much Would You Travel for a Bottle of Water?

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 11:25:48 +0000

Children in Somalia and other countries in Africa and Asia are travelling tens of kilometers to get a bottle of water – more or less drinkable. On the other side of the world, companies like Nestle tried to make water a good of their own, making it accessible by the privilege of paying. This guy […]

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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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Water Testing Device Cheaply Monitors Ocean Acidification

Annika Tostengard — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 17:02:08 +0000

Researchers at Montana company Sunburst Sensors have won $1.5 million for a device that can cheaply and accurately test the acid levels in ocean water. Concerns about ocean acidification have come to the forefront of the climate change discussion in recent years, but there is still not an easy way to monitor just how acidic ocean water […]

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Water Wars: Nestlé CEO Wants to Privatize Water Resources

Benji Jerew — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:50:58 +0000

Water is essential to life, and places that do not have a sufficient supply of fresh water are barren and abandoned. Climate change is sure to lead to future water wars. Clear evidence of this can be seen in the vast deserts around the world, the Sahara, Mojave, and Gobi, for example, where only passersby, […]

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14 Year-Old Invents Cheap Solar Powered Water Purification System

Mike Sandru — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:34:24 +0000

As teenagers, most of us cared more about say, a humiliating acne outbreak or which classmate we’d ask to homecoming, rather than the difficulties of developing countries. When she watched some Indian children drinking from a pool of stagnant water, Deepika Kurup, a 14-year-old living in Nashua, New Hampshire made it her goal to help […]

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Coca-Cola and Dean Kamen Partner for Clean Water

Benji Jerew — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 07:35:58 +0000

One of the world’s growing problems, not only in developing countries, is access to clean drinking water. Over ¾ billion people could benefit from a partnership between Coca-Cola Corporation and Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway. Kamen’s company DeKa, also holds patents on stirling engine designs, the AutoSyringe drug infusion pump, and even an […]

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New Photo-Catalytic Fuel Cell Can Both Clean Wastewater and Produce Electricity

Mircea Sandru — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:08:12 +0000

People have so far created many water purifying devices and we always presented them here on The Green Optimistic. Now, Yanbiao Liu and his colleagues from Shanghai Jiao Tong University have created the photo-catalytic fuel cell, a new device capable of both cleaning wastewater and producing electricity from it. The photo-catalytic fuel cell uses light […]

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Big Spring Town, TX, Recycles Urine For Drinking Purposes

Mircea Sandru — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:11:03 +0000

Maybe inspired by The Adventures of Bear Grylls, some people in Texas started to recycle urine in order to fight drought. Big Spring, a town in Texas, has been going through the worst drinking water crisis lately, so, authorities decided to take advantage of every possible source of water to overcome this critical moment. John Grant, […]

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Homemade Water Distiller Built in Less Than an Hour

Mircea Sandru — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:03:49 +0000

Here is a simple but efficient homemade water distiller that should be able to help us meet our daily water needs. As one of the most important elements of life, water can cause serious inconveniences when missing. Speaking of potable water, you have to admit that the idea of drinking tap water has become, for […]

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Aquacube Water Treatment System Provides Clean Water in Underdeveloped Countries

Mircea Sandru — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:25:20 +0000

Water, a key element of life, has always been one of the most exploited natural resources. Even if we have a lot of water (71 percent of the earthÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s surface), in some places on earth drinking water still remains an unsolved issue. Especially with the increasing population and industrial development, our clean water resources dropped drastically in recent years.

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Clean Water Harvested From Fog by Beetle-Inspired Device

Mircea Sandru — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:55:53 +0000

Inspired by Stenocara gracilipes, a beetle found in the Namib Desert, MIT engineer Shreerang Chhatre developed a simple and efficient device that can harvest fog. Being actually an inexpensive way to provide clean drinking water, this fog harvesting device could be perfect for poorer countries, where water scarcity is still an unsolved problem.

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Contaminated Waters to Be Treated with Forest Debris and Crushed Shells

Mike Sandru — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:18:26 +0000

With the risks nuclear reactors are posing in every country, a solution had to be found for waste to be extracted. Thanks to researchers at the University of North Carolina, a material has been found, which on top of everything is 100% natural: forest debris mixed with crushed crustacean shells.

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Revolutionary Water Purifier Made From Banana Peels Eliminates Toxic Metals

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:33:19 +0000

A water purification system developed recently by Gustavo Castro and his colleagues from Brazil is actually based on banana peels, with no other complex filters or other electronics involved.

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LG Consolidates Position In The Wastewater Treatment Industry With Its First MBR Process

Mike Sandru — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:08:24 +0000

LG Electronics revealed last week an innovative solution to wastewater treatment, just two months after it had announced to enter the water treatment business. The solution is provided by the Green Membrane Bioreactor (G-MBR) process, a project engineered by means of the latest advanced technology, which places LG in the major players league of water treatment industry for a long term.

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Redbird Solar Water Purification System Can Process 14,400 gallons/day

Mike Sandru — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:04:21 +0000

The company Chemviron Midwest has developed the world's first solar-powered water purification system. The 25-feet long and 15-feet high water purification system, known as Redbird, can be completely enclosed in a shipping container, being easily transported in various parts of the world.

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