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Eco Factor: Evaporation-based water purifier.
Yesterday we wrote about an osmosis-based water purifier, which would be able to convert seawater into potable water. The approach seemed fantastic, but the infrastructure it would require will cost...
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Drawing inspiration from children’s games, like box of surprises and snowball, designer Djordje Cukanovic ChuDes is up there with an innovative lamp that makes...
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Eco Factor: Dew collectors reduce the amount of water required for irrigation, protect plants from weeds.
Israel-based start-up Tal-Ya Water Technologies has...
made popular Jun 5 2009
With the Vat19’s Waboba Ball, you can have the pleasure of tossing a ball on the water. This ball can easily bounce five to six feet in the air when tossed on water....
made popular May 28 2009
Homeowners eager for green ways to keep their houses cool in the summer and warm in the winter may soon have an alternative to the pink fiberglass insulation they have...
made popular May 14 2009
AP, Crestwood
Federal agents have raided city offices in the Chicago suburb of Crestwood, Ill., which has been accused of knowingly drawing drinking water from a contaminated well...
made popular Apr 29 2009
AP, Garfield
Authorities arrested a 56-year-old man on suspicion of firing a rifle at the town’s water tower, causing about $15,000 in damage. The Benton County...
made popular Apr 28 2009
AP, Crestwood
Hundreds of outraged residents packed a community meeting Saturday to confront village officials about allegations that they knowingly drew drinking water from a...
made popular Apr 26 2009
AP, Los Angeles
A dozen students complained of feeling sick after drinking bottled water from a junior high school vending machine, but the FBI said Friday that no sign of tampering...
made popular Apr 24 2009
AP, Santa Clarita
Authorities say 12 students became sick after drinking bottled water from a vending machine at a Southern California junior high school.
made popular Apr 24 2009
Eco Factor: Water circulator improves water quality using solar energy.
The SolarBee long-distance water circulator helps improve water quality in lakes and other...
made popular Apr 24 2009
AP, Hartford
Thousands of Hartford-area water customers have been dealing with a boil advisory for two days as officials try to find out why micro-organisms have been appearing in...
made popular Apr 23 2009
Self healing paint for cars did astonish then, not really now after this attempt from University of Michigan, to develop bendable concrete that heals itself when it...
made popular Apr 23 2009
Eco Factor: Water-saving garden sprinkler.
With the water crisis looming large, homeowners are always on the hunt for gadgets that might help them conserve a few...
made popular Apr 23 2009
AP, Ogden
A homeowner said an anonymous donor should not have paid his water bill. Don Ekstrom said he still disputes the $560 bill for water used in two months. “Now they...
made popular Apr 20 2009
AP, Crestwood
Officials knowingly drew drinking water from a contaminated well for more than two decades even after warnings by state environmental officials, according to a...
made popular Apr 19 2009
AP, Oakland
A westward dash to power electricity-hungry cities by cashing in on the desert’s most abundant resource _ sunshine _ is clashing with efforts to protect the tiny...
made popular Apr 18 2009
AP, Gustine
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is joining thousands of demonstrators on the final leg of a four-day march aimed at drawing attention to rural job losses caused by water...
made popular Apr 17 2009
AP, Rancho Cordova
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar urged California on Wednesday to modernize its antiquated water system, while pledging $260 million in federal stimulus money to help...
made popular Apr 15 2009
AP, Rancho Cordova
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is pledging $260 million in federal stimulus money to help California address its water shortages.
made popular Apr 15 2009
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Henry Ford once said: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
Punch: Little drops of...
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Magnum Coal has agreed to give West Virginia $3.5 million and an enormous pile of love-seat-sized rocks to settle a Clean Water Act lawsuit over dumping selenium into a...
made popular Jul 12 2008
AP, Washington
The movement of billions of gallons of water around the country for drinking, irrigation and other uses will not require permits under the Clean Water Act, even though...
made popular Jun 9 2008
Solar Still is a perfect water distiller designed especially for remote areas or during power outrages. Solar stills mimic the natural process, when the water...
made popular Jan 28 2008
Check out the winning bike from Innovate or Die Pedal-Powered Machine Contest. The Aquaduct is a three-wheeled bike intended for people who lack access to clean...
made popular Jan 19 2008
A vision straight out of ‘Futurama’ gives birth to a Columbia professor’s belief that it is by converting the skyscrapers into crop farms, global...
made popular Apr 7 2007
UNICEF has revealed that due to lack of clean water, thousands of children in the developing countries are suffering from various diseases.
According to UNICEF, there...
made popular Oct 25 2005
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