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Eco Factor: Solar-powered system extracts water from humid air.
Access to clean drinking water is not as common as people living in urban areas think it to be. With billions of people thirsty for water, inventors had to design systems that can...
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The Tunisian government has announced that the first case of H1N1 virus, or Swine flu, has been registered in the country. Such a case is the first in the Maghreb...
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Women in Africa are being sterilised without their consent after being told the procedure is a routine treatment for Aids, a lawsuit will claim.
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Scientists are genetically modifying a bizarre looking Mexican salamander, which according to ancient mythology is a transformed Aztec god, in the hope its ability to...
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The adult film industry said it was the first case since the 2004 outbreak, the LA Times reported.
In fact, 22 performers have tested positive, including last...
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Venezuela’s Health Ministry said Friday it banned sales of Coca-Cola Zero because the company failed to declare that the no-calorie soft drink uses an artificial...
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Greece will impose a tobacco ban in public places on July 1 in its third attempt in a decade to stamp out the habit in Europe’s biggest-smoking nation, the health...
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The oldest himan had died aged 134 couple hours ago. Moloko Temo lived all her life in Limpopo Province of South Africa.
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I thank god that I was blessed to be born in Shimla The Queen Of Hills in a Chotta Shimla based business family, I got my...
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Throughout the Second World War Eton College was adamant it would not close its doors as a result of any threat from the Germans. It would not, its then headmaster...
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Pumwani maternity hospital is one of the busiest hospitals here in Nairobi but this is where the devil has pitched camp.
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Mobile telephones are to be banned from French primary schools, and operators must offer handsets that allow only text messages, under government measures to reduce the...
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Eco Factor: Osmosis-based systems to provide drinking water from seas.
About 71% of our planet is covered with water, but still the water crisis looms large. The...
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Eco Factor: Human-powered water pumps can solve the water crisis in developing and underdeveloped countries.
If scientists are to be believed, then water was the first...
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Eco Factor: Water filter made from 95% recycled materials.
If you live in a developing country where access to drinking water is not that easy, then Z-Pitcher might...
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Eco Factor: Recycled shipping container to be used as waste water treatment plant.
The unavailability of pure drinkable water claims hundreds of lives each day in...
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EcoFactor: Device generates fresh drinking water from air.
With the reserves of fresh water going extinct, gadget designers are now focused on finding new ways to...
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5 local officials in southern China were fired after hundreds of villagers were sickened by arsenic-contaminated drinking water. 450 people began showing symptoms of...
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Some nutritionists insist that 80% of the country is walking around dehydrated. We drink too much coffee, tea, and sodas containing caffeine, which prompts the body to...
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By Vincent Van Ross
Water is the elixir of life. So, all ancient civilizations were found near rivers and other sources of water. Even today, when you are thirsty, you...
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a 42-year-old woman found dead last month in her blood-splattered Macomb County condo with no signs of injury to her body died after drinking too much water.
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Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed plastics containing “smart elements” that can instantly detect the presence of mercury at or...
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Is bottled water better for you than tap? Or should you choose vitamin-enriched water over sparkling? Experts say, skip it all. None of these products are likely to...
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Storm water is a natural source of water which gets contaminated due to the excessive pollution levels. With an ever menacing threat to drinking water resources, the...
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It may seem to be weird, but a day might come when your packaged drinking water is recycled urine. If NASA is successful in its tests, you may end up drinking recycled...
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Bid a good bye to the cumbersome existing technology used to detect cyanide in drinking water. Scientists have come up with a new method - a cyanide sensor — that...
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Indians living in metro cities are not being provided safe water to drink. Drinking contaminated water is the major cause behind water-borne diseases such as diarrhoea...
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Drinking water by recycling sewage! Yes, an Australian town will vote this week on whether they’re prepared to do this, not out of being environmentally...
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Kidney Health Australia has started a nationwide drive to curb the mounting problems of kidney disease. The agency has called on an education campaign to make people...
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If a chemical or biological contaminant were accidentally or intentionally introduced into a drinking water source in the United States, i.e. hundreds of thousands of...
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Drinking water in 42 states in the US may be more polluted then what it was with only H20 and fluoride. This has been recorded after an analysis by an environmental...
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